vSide beta 10 released
by Orion Elenzil · 05/28/2009 (1:17 pm) · 10 comments
It was a long time coming, but vSide's tenth release is finally out the door!
Pictures > Words, so here's a few:
here's a few highlights of what's new-
(full list)
* streaming arbitrary shoutcast streams, including live user streams
- so you can play anything from http://shoutcast.com in your apartment,
as well as any youtube video
* new private space - "Club Rage"
- a large space to set up your own nightclub in
* own multiple private spaces
- previously you could only own one space at a time,
now you don't have to give up that yacht to own that nightclub !
* delegate co-hosts for your private space
- get some help to throw that party!
* drinks
- everybody loves drinks
* tons of new clothing items
- a couple hundred are user-contributed and they look great!
* shopping & closet UI improvements
- mostly making it easier to find clothing and furniture items
* share photos on facebook
- when you take a photo in the vSide client, you can now easily share it on facebook
(more features like this to come soon, for obvious reasons)
* the usual array of bugfixes and general improvements
* housebots
- you can buy mannequins to showcase your best outfits,
or some bots to help cater your party.
technical deets:
vSide is an massively multiplayer social online world for teenagers,
build on a modified TGE 1.3.5 engine with a java/hibernate/mySql backend.
more snapshots are here, or check out user-created videos by just searching youtube for "vSide"
Pictures > Words, so here's a few:
here's a few highlights of what's new-
(full list)
* streaming arbitrary shoutcast streams, including live user streams
- so you can play anything from http://shoutcast.com in your apartment,
as well as any youtube video
* new private space - "Club Rage"
- a large space to set up your own nightclub in
* own multiple private spaces
- previously you could only own one space at a time,
now you don't have to give up that yacht to own that nightclub !
* delegate co-hosts for your private space
- get some help to throw that party!
* drinks
- everybody loves drinks
* tons of new clothing items
- a couple hundred are user-contributed and they look great!
* shopping & closet UI improvements
- mostly making it easier to find clothing and furniture items
* share photos on facebook
- when you take a photo in the vSide client, you can now easily share it on facebook
(more features like this to come soon, for obvious reasons)
* the usual array of bugfixes and general improvements
* housebots
- you can buy mannequins to showcase your best outfits,
or some bots to help cater your party.
technical deets:
vSide is an massively multiplayer social online world for teenagers,
build on a modified TGE 1.3.5 engine with a java/hibernate/mySql backend.
more snapshots are here, or check out user-created videos by just searching youtube for "vSide"
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#2
05/28/2009 (1:56 pm)
Looks great! I remember playing this back in beta stage. 
#3
05/28/2009 (4:10 pm)
Very much what those other virtual social worlds want to be, yet can't achieve. Great work! 
#4
05/28/2009 (6:26 pm)
One of the better things ever done using Torque. Go Orion! 
#5
05/28/2009 (6:57 pm)
Cool, not my thing, but cool nontheless. I'm far too antisocial ;) 
#6
05/28/2009 (8:49 pm)
Looks pretty cool. I like the cell shading style shader, makes the characters standout.
#7
> I like the cell shading style shader, makes the characters standout.
it also nicely side-steps the issue of the uncanny valley,
which i think has helped the product immensely.
btw, clint brewer coded the fixed-pipeline cell-shading, yay clint!
05/29/2009 (12:42 am)
thanks for the kind words all!> I like the cell shading style shader, makes the characters standout.
it also nicely side-steps the issue of the uncanny valley,
which i think has helped the product immensely.
btw, clint brewer coded the fixed-pipeline cell-shading, yay clint!
#8
Quite interesting.
05/29/2009 (10:08 am)
Quote:it also nicely side-steps the issue of the uncanny valley, which i think has helped the product immensely.
Quite interesting.
#9
12/15/2010 (3:24 pm)
Hey Orion, Im a vSider and got a question. You dont happen to be a mod there any more?
#10
sorry, i haven't been w/ vSide for over a year.
glad to hear you're using it tho !
12/15/2010 (3:58 pm)
hey Bryan -sorry, i haven't been w/ vSide for over a year.
glad to hear you're using it tho !
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