| The making of:
R Y V
E N
The Imitation of Myst
Ha! Like anyone gives a shit...
The imitation theme probably demands "making of" stuff even if nothing
else does :-) I'll include some "tech" info
below, but first; by virtue of reading this, I presume you have some interest
in what goes on behind stuff like this, which indicates that you might
do Stuff[TM] yourself, which raises
the possibility that you might be able to help me... Specifically; with
the HTML side of things... :-) I've had a reasonably thorough search of
the net to find the following, but still don't know how to do these things:
Sound. I want to set a thing up so that
when the player clicks on the link, a sound file is played (preferably
a definable number of times) as well as the link actually still working
and taking the browser to the desired place... Furthermore, I want to do
this without hideous side-effects such as the sound player creating a new
window for itself, rather than staying embedded, etc. I'm currently looking
into Emblaze, but I suspect it will want to cost more than I want
to pay :-) Anyone know how to do this?
Animation. Using Gif Construction Set,
making animated gifs is no problem, implementing them the way I want to,
however is. Could anyone tell me how to go about setting up an animated
gif such that when an image is clicked on, the animated gif replaces it
(ie so that something starts animating when you click on it) and a link
is activated taking you to wherever. (And a sound too... :-) I get the
impression these problems are easy to solve, but I haven't got the time
to learn more than the basics of HTML (and what I
have tried (or poached from other pages) has not been completely
satisfactory).
Tools:
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Time (always a problem :-)
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Software:
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3D Studio Release 4 (modeling, rendering)
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Vistapro (DXF generation for 3D Studio)
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Netscape Navigator Gold (HTML editing)
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NS Communicator Page Composer (HTML editing when I
got sick of NS Gold :-)
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MapEdit (imagemaps)
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Riven (inspiration)
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Hardware:
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Pentium "classic" 150mhz
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Whatever Geocities uses to store the stuff :-)
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Wetware:
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Imagination (a touch here and there)
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Brain[TM] Organic Processing Module (this
and that)
All models (ie Ryven and all the objects in it) and
all their surface materials are original work by me.
No floppy disks were harmed or killed in the production of Ryven.
[This is because no floppy disks were used. Floppy disks suck.
Scratching sand with a stick is a faster and more reliable method
of storing information.]
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