IMPORTANT- Possible Virus infection...

[Vorchia]

I tried to put the FAQ and rules link into a newsfader but the html will not work...

[saoirse]

Actually I know the BB codes from various board (PHPBB, Ikonboard, Xoops, etc). Just the placement on proboards threw me.

I SHOULD of payed closer attention to that FAQ. I'm a bad sauriaun. Saoirse get "sat on" time out for 5 min. Your a good admin Vorchia! (go figure, one of my top staff/friends is from the Netherlands too)

Speaking of forums. We own/run one of the largest art servers on the net and give free websites/domains to artists. We'd be more than glad to help out in hosting (for free of course) forum/s and other services for Dinotopia and it's fans be it a community project or existing designers. Either is fine with us just waiting to hear back from Azonthus on this.

An example one idea we was toying around with was a web based Dinotopia "live chat". So me and Kaycy threw together an example: dinochat.artistsworld.org This one is java based and uses the IRC protocol (ie you can chat with ANY irc client). It's completely customizable in look/design (html) I can configure the bot to automatically give all board Polemic admins "ops"/admin status in the #dinotopia room. It runs on our online IRC chat server which has a decent sized staff online most hours of the day or night (good for helping solve problems or dealing with trolls).

I've also been experimenting with a new "graphic chat" for about a month now. This is not ready but if admins wanted it I'm sure we could work together to get it ready. By design this chat lets you pick a avatar (like your favorite dinosaur or your own art). Your avatar can move around and change appearance based on mood/clothing/sitting/standing. You can build rooms as well using graphics for the walls.

My idea was (if wanted) we could design this graphic chat rooms as Waterfall city. Design the rooms as if traveling through the town and entering buildings. These would be traveled by our sauriaun/human avatars that could react and chat. If this is of interest to the community we would need a LOT of help in the design of rooms and chose able avatars.

Anyways we already pay the bills for a high end server (have been for years) so in the spirit of "others first self last" it's available for use if needed.

Saoirse

[Barry]

Very nice site saoirse.

I'll have to try it someday when it's not in beta stage
anymore.

[kada]

Oh, it is usable now. Though I use Trillian to access our IRC so I don't get to see the nice set up of the scheme. But, if I go there not thru Trillian, I get to see what we created! Love it!

If you do go, you can go into the #furtopia chat and let us know you are there and we can meet you in there as well.

[saoirse]

Yeah the "Dinochat" is fully working. We just set it up as an example to see if others would find useful. It can be customized to any need/appearence. If someone has a time they want to pop in I'll try and be watching.

The graphic chat is in early beta (testing the code now). If wanted the 3d graphic chat world will take some work by the community into design but would look awsome allowing artists to "create" avatars of their own characters.

Saoirse

[Azonthus]

Thanks for setting up that cool chat=) It looks great! If you need help in the creation of rooms/avatars, I have an associates degree in Interactive Multimedia Technologies. I can help! But mostly with the design- the only programming I do is java based.

[kada]

For contacting us when going to the dino chat, yes one of us is probably idling but that is so the dinotopians know it is open. IF you come in there and we are idle we are probably working on Furtopia and our other sites as those ARE our businesses.

Here are my contact IM's as I always have them open when I am on my comp. I will have Saoirse post his when he gets on-line as well.

AIM: KadaRu00
ICQ: 142428267
MSN: [e-mail]
YIM: kaycyd

We are at our comps appox 8-12 hours a day, so you can page one of us to let us know you are in the chat and wondering if we would mind coming and joining you in there, which we will.

Hope this helps.

[saoirse]

Thanks for setting up that cool chat=) It looks great! If you need help in the creation of rooms/avatars, I have an associates degree in Interactive Multimedia Technologies. I can help! But mostly with the design- the only programming I do is java based.

Shoot me a PM of a good time to chat IM. I think it has a lot of potential but it will take a good design team to make it look truly awsome. I do programing/server side (among many things). So I can show you what we in the works so far.

Saoirse

[Azonthus]

Sorry for the temporary dissapearance guys. Apparently, I haddn't gotten the virus; it had lodged itself on my second hard drive and deleted the partition there and caused all sorts of problems. I also had super annoying adware that needed removal and I couldn't get rid of, so I tried to re-format again. Needless to say, it didn't work the way it should have. I had to send my computer out to get it fixed and I got it back two days ago. Sadly, my sister lost almost 100 pages of anatomy notes, so I've been helping her re-type them. I also lost Registry updates and my pictures from Puerto Rico!>_< Not a happy raptor right now. At least the computer is back and working properly. Looks like I've got some catching up to do!

Saoirse, I can now chat! MSN sn is [e-mail] and AIM is Azonthus. I refuse to use ICQ because Yahoo annoys me with constantly trying to install it on my computer and force me to use it. I'll be able to chat around 10 PM on Monday night, which is after class. Hope to see you then!

RF, SP,

Az