Monday, February 18, 2008

Level Props 2

I've been digging through example scripts on the SL Wiki, and I believe that some more level props that could be really cool could be possible. For example, I think a floating camera that follows random players might be possible. I've got a model built already, and I think that there are two possible routes that could be taken with it. In either case, we put a mostly transparent sphere around it (forcefield, or somesuch). In the first case, we can make it as unobtrusive as possible by making it a phantom object. In the second, we can make it a physical object that can actually be used by players (bounce a ball off the shield, possibly even bounce it into another player, as a piece of dynamic cover, etc.)

I've got the model already built for it. It would need texturing, animating, and scripting, but I think it could be a fun little dynamic element that fits nicely within the theme of the game.

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Follower_%28script%29


I think it should be also possible that even if we can't actually show live shots of the action within the lobby that we can still have some dynamic element in the lobby related to action happening within the arenas.

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Random_AV_Profile_Projector


With something built on this script, I think we could at least have profile images of the competitors pop up occasionally on screens within the lobby.

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