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Sancrafter Blocks experience

JackTheRipper

August 16, 2017 21:56

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I've spent a day making these assets and creating this experience as a bit of a test. I've not published anything on Sansar yet... just been playing with things.

This experience might be deleted (by Sansar) because.. well, ya know... it's probably breaching guidelines/copyrights / IP etc. but you might get to visit before it goes :-)

Everything in the scene is original - I made them all today and last night and they are in the store to download.

Like I say, I am just dabbling and I thought I'd share this experience with you good folk.

There's a link tunnel to another area and there's also a short mineshaft to find.

The area in this experience is designed to be duplicated to create as many areas as you want and the blocks (available in the store) can be used to build more areas etc.

Let me know what you think.

ta

 

https://atlas.sansar.com/experiences/jacktheripper/sancrafter

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  Richardus Raymaker August 16, 2017 22:06

  :) That did take shorter then expected before someone made it.

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  Chris Jackson August 17, 2017 07:48

  You built that in Sansar? NICE.

  Just checked it out. WOW. Well done, looks just like it.

   

  Edited by Chris Jackson August 17, 2017 07:54
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  Andrew Lawrence August 17, 2017 12:08

  That looks great.  You may be able to subscribe keys for visitors to create and remove blocks, using coordinating scripts.

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  JackTheRipper August 17, 2017 14:16

  Thanks, @AndrewLawrence but that would be beyond my capabilities.

  I would like to create a few more terrain 'tiles' that bold together in various configs to create really big terrains and stick them in the store.

  I look forward to a mesh/grid snapping system within Sansar editor so that placements of these types of models is a bit more accurate, quicker and easy.

   

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  Theanine August 17, 2017 22:30

  That's really neat! Nice job.

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  JackTheRipper August 17, 2017 22:44

  Thanks, Sooo much :-) 

  Appreciated. 

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  Richardus Raymaker August 17, 2017 22:50

  It's really showing the possible idea's. I know from youtube someone made it in unity. SO i expect the same script power in sansar someday.

  Still like it.

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  Richardus Raymaker August 18, 2017 23:07

  GOLD !, GOLD, i found GOLD !

  https://store.sansar.com/listings/ff4eb529-32cf-43ea-9c9f-fbec9290d7ad/sancrafter-base-block---gold-block

  Oh wait, it's just a block..

  

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  JackTheRipper August 19, 2017 19:29

  Thanks for the comments :)

  I've just added an update and also discovered a maximum height for models in experiences. Hence why my pyramid is about 10 blocks shorter than I wanted.

  Added a tunnel with an underground room too.

   

   

   

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  Gindipple August 19, 2017 19:39

  I don't think that's a maximum height issue there.

  I'd check your skybox height settings

  Place looks awesome, but I'd start thinking about them textures lol

   

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  gfcprogramer August 19, 2017 19:41

  Great! Imagine 4 kilometers wide and deep places with caves and magma. Im looking forward to it!

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  JackTheRipper August 19, 2017 20:07

  @Gindipple What do you mean about "but I'd start thinking about them textures lol"

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  Gindipple August 19, 2017 20:17

  well you said it in your original post "it's probably breaching guidelines/copyrights / IP etc"

   

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  JackTheRipper August 19, 2017 20:41

  I reckon it is :-) Bit naughty of me I think but so far I've not been reprimanded!

  thanks for the comment's, guys.

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  JackTheRipper August 19, 2017 21:25

  I've checked the skybox settings but I don't think the skybox is the issue with the height of the pyramid. I removed the skybox altogether and I still got the problem when trying to reach the top of the pyramid. You can get to about 8 blocks from the top and then the strange object culling kicks in. It's not the pyramid model because I can reach the top of the pyramid IF I lower it by about 8 blocks. 

  I have put the pyramid at full height now. Pop along and climb to the top and see what happens. 

   

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  Richardus Raymaker August 19, 2017 21:29

  there are right now weird object culling problems in sansar. That could be the problem.

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  Gindipple August 19, 2017 22:16

  I think you just need to play with it more

  
  https://gyazo.com/5f6ab1675217b6c42ed90e510eefd1b8

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  JackTheRipper August 19, 2017 22:32

  What settings did you change @Gindipple to do that, please?

  thanks

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  Gindipple August 19, 2017 22:49

  I don't think I changed anything from the default scene really.

  The sky distance is 3000m but I don't recall if that was default or not.

   

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  JackTheRipper August 20, 2017 00:12

  Hmmm. I've fiddled with all that but no good. Again it looks like a culling problem either with Sansar OR maybe my PC.

  Can anyone have a go at climbing the pyramid and see what happens as you get to the top?

  https://atlas.sansar.com/experiences/jacktheripper/sancrafter

  thanks

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  Andrew Lawrence August 20, 2017 01:07

  It might help to put a non-dynamic object higher up than you would ever expect the camera position to be.  It seems to be necessary for establishing some kind of render boundary.  It's not as much of a problem with the sides, but you may find it necessary to do the same for both extents of the X and Y axes as well.

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  Richardus Raymaker August 20, 2017 11:39

  It's disappearing after some height complete for me. I have culling problems on my experience to.

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  JackTheRipper August 20, 2017 14:33

  @Andrew Lawrence, Thanks for that suggestion. I tried what you said and it worked! I placed a cube well above the top of the pyramid (you can see it you visit the experience) and now I can ascend the pyramid and stand on the summit without the culling issue. THANKS!

   

  But why did/does this happen? it a bug? Does it happen with everyone?  Is it caused by the users (mine) PC specs/limitations? I note that some replies to this thread don't get that issue and I wonder if it's a hardware limitation of PC's that are not as powerful as other users?

   

  Thanks for the fix, sir!

   

  "It might help to put a non-dynamic object higher up than you would ever expect the camera position to be.  It seems to be necessary for establishing some kind of render boundary.  It's not as much of a problem with the sides, but you may find it necessary to do the same for both extents of the X and Y axes as well."

  Edited by JackTheRipper August 20, 2017 14:34
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  Richardus Raymaker August 20, 2017 14:40

  Interesting, it works now fine for me to ! Just tried it.

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  Andrew Lawrence August 20, 2017 16:22

  I first encountered it when I made platforms, and steps to walk up to reach the platforms.  I had no idea what was going on when I would get near the top, and suddenly everything disappeared besides the background.  Then I realized it was based on the camera, when I was close to the boundary and was able to rotate my camera to see again.  So then I tried moving everything down 10 meters to be under what I thought was a specific height limit.  But I only encountered the same issue at a lower height.  So I lowered everything again to see if it happened at an even lower height, and it did.  Then I realized that the camera position is about 4-5 meters above the avatar, and that it wasn't rendering anything when the camera position was above the highest object.  So there appeared to be an invisible boundary that was determined by the highest object, and that nothing would be rendered when the camera position was outside of it.  This was confusing, because I did have higher objects, but they were dynamic objects that were moving around.  So I had to test if the boundary was formed only by non-dynamic objects, by putting one high in the sky above everything.  When I did that it was no longer a problem.  I found out that it also happens when I go to the farthest ends of an experience, and rotate the camera to look in from outside.  It's very strange and also happens with the flycam.  I really don't know why more people aren't reporting it if it affects everyone, or why it wouldn't affect everyone.

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  JackTheRipper August 20, 2017 16:59

  Great explanation @AndrewLawrence. thanks.

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  Andrew Lawrence August 22, 2017 10:02

  Just found out that Ethos reported the boundary issue at the end of June, at https://help.sansar.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115018062863-Visibility-Above-Highest-object-FAILS