Emma might be the answer to my dreams

[miriam_e]

I just read about a new 3d project called Emma which uses the OGRE 3d engine and the Lua scripting language to create an open source, free 3d modeling environment. Yay!!!

I have been wanting to create stories in 3d since I started building 3d worlds more than a decade ago. I'd become excited by POV-Ray (still am) and VRML (which seems on its death bed) and I have been creating my own 3d language as an on-again, off-again project for the last few years and learning a lot in the process, but today I learned of this new project. Emma sounds it might be the one!

Wahoo!!! I hope. I hope. I hope.

http://emma3d.org/
http://www.lua.org/
http://ogre3d.org/
http://www.wxwidgets.org/

Open source rocks!!

Comments

[apocraphilia.livejournal.com]

You only missed wxWidgets :)

Emma looks like a great idea - it certainly includes all the right OS tech. I'm monkeying with Ogre at the moment, trying to recreate someone's closed source toy as an OS project - it certainly seems to have everything in the right place.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) Fixed.

Hey, that chess game looks very cool.
Adding the text to let people communicate showed that they didn't go in there to deliberately hassle people -- it was an accidental result of "Ohh, pretty... gosh, I can move these pieces and they bump other pieces!". Seems to me you chose the right route -- allow people to see each other, enhancing their awareness, rather than closing their options down. After all, in a real game of chess anybody can reach in and move parts, but nobody does, other than the two players.

Have you seen this? http://www.newimage.com/~rhk/rtchess
It is a real-time ray traced chess game. There is no physics or networking. I found out about it from the rtrt (realtime raytracing) list on Yahoo Groups. Unfortunately nothing has been posted to the list for ages as you can see by the archives at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/realtime_raytracing/ however there are a number of interesting posts and files (mostly demos) there for downloading (look in the Files area).

Did you know that Geometrek (http://www.geometrek.com) have produced a free VRML program that allows multiple users to connect in a chess world and move pieces? It doesn't have physics or shadows. It is probably possible to add the text of conversations though.
http://www.geometrek.com/products/download/index.html

I should have a fiddle with Ogre. It certainly seems to be catching on.