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release of new version MMOG "Coolsailors: TamayaPath"

NewYork Virtual — 2008-07-23T23:06:58+00:00

NewYork Virtual is pleased to announce the release of new version MMOG "Coolsailors: TamayaPath"
which includes updates to the events, more facilities, more variety of bots designs and of course
more fun parts with the whole more subtle colors and graphics. We purposely included a step-by-step
instruction to guide players through training session with less frustration than previous versions.

Game site: coolsailors.com
Features: coolsailors.com/beta.site/home/features.html
Player Guide coolsailors.com/beta.site/home/guide.html
Create account and download gm.coolsailors.com/school/login/signup.php
Screen shots: coolsailors.com/beta.site/home/screens.html

System Requirements
Windows 2000/xp
Pentium III 1000, 512M RAM
OpenGL or DirectX compatiable 3D Graphic Accelerator, DirectX Compatible Sound Card

Game client size: 200 MB

---This game is based on Torque Engine 1.3.x.

Coolsailors beta2 release

NewYork Virtual — 2007-06-16T15:47:09+00:00

I'm very pleased to announce that Newyork Virtual is releasing "Coolsailors" beta version (torque 1.3.5):

Click here to create account and download game client(window)

About
"2007 Coolsailors Begin" is a massively multi-player online game integrating learning science and
technology into game playing and entertaining. Coolsailors game world is featured with RPG, FPS
and RTS elements.

Here is how Coolsailors game differs from other mmo games:
1. The game interface. player controls his character from a Command interface by
talking( type commands, similiar to linux command or dos command) to player's own
character( not NPC) to do most stuff except some special keys which tied to some
commands, such as "w, s, d,a" for walking, "f, e" for change 1st person view to 3rd
person view, "click" for firing weapons and etc.
2. Character conversion. Players can convert himself from woody charcters to Human,
robot, bird, fish, hover-vehicle, space-vehicle as you wish any time ( at certain levels ).

The game world consists of various Space Station and Planet :
Tamaya Space Station(Coolsailors Player Center)
Agvene Space Station(Coolsailors HQ)
Planet Tyee(Coolsailors School&Research)
Planet Magena(Coolsailors Base)
Planet Tenskwatawa (Coolsailors Experiment)
Planet Altsoba(Gate)
Planet Amadahy(Hot rock Resources)
Planet Kiwidinok(Underwater Resource)

Please check out our site coolsailors.com for more screenshots.

Features Screen shots Player Guide

System Requirements
Windows 2000/xp
Pentium III 1000, 512M RAM
OpenGL or DirectX compatiable 3D Graphic Accelerator, DirectX Compatible Sound Card

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Coolsailors new pics

NewYork Virtual — 2007-01-01T06:52:21+00:00

Updated some game zones, here are some pictures:

Happy new year to all .

Dynamic create/remove foliage on client/server

NewYork Virtual — 2006-11-02T17:42:16+00:00

This is an example of dynamic create fxShapeReplicator type object
on both clients and server, will generalte flowers from player's current
position, hope others can find this helpful.

I was looking for a solution to do this, and i found this thread
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=18448,
so here we have some example code here.

Some notes:
1. you need to replace shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/Plants/flower.dts";
with your own shape file.
2. to remove object, this may not need commandToclient(%cl, 'doReplicate');
3. you can change fxShapeReplicator to fxFoliageReplicator, it should works
also, but not tested.
4. This is just a testing code.

--------------------------Client code:-----------------------------------------------------

$rshapes = new simGroup(rshapes); 

function clientCmdCreateFlowers(%pos)
{
  schedule(1000, 0, "CreateFlowers", %pos);
}

function clientCmdDoReplicate()
{
  schedule(2000, 0, "startFoliageReplication"); 
  schedule(2800, 0, "startClientReplication"); 
}

function CreateFlowers(%pos)
{
   logMessage("clientCmdCreateFlower:" @ %pos, 1); 
   %flowers = new fxShapeReplicator(Flowers) {
      position = %pos;
      rotation = "1 0 0 0";
      scale = "1 1 1";
      HideReplications = "0";
      ShowPlacementArea = "1";
      PlacementAreaHeight = "25";
      PlacementColour = %pos;
      shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/Plants/flower.dts";
      Seed = "1376312589";
      ShapeCount = "148";
      ShapeRetries = "80";
      InnerRadiusX = "0";
      InnerRadiusY = "0";
      OuterRadiusX = "280";
      OuterRadiusY = "280";
      AllowOnTerrain = "1";
      AllowOnInteriors = "1";
      AllowOnStatics = "1";
      AllowOnWater = "0";
      AllowWaterSurface = "0";
      AlignToTerrain = "0";
      Interactions = "1";
      AllowedTerrainSlope = "90";
      TerrainAlignment = "1 1 1";
      FixShapeAspect = "0";
      ShapeScaleMin = "0.43 0.43 0.43";
      ShapeScaleMax = "1.18 1.18 1.18";
      ShapeRotateMin = "0 0 0";
      ShapeRotateMax = "0 0 0";
      OffsetZ = "0";
   };
   rshapes.add(%flowers); 

}

function clientCmdRMFlowers()
{
  schedule(100, 0, "rmFlowers");
}

function rmFlowers()
{
   %count = rshapes.getCount(); 
   logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %count, 1); 
   for(%i=0; %i<%count; %i++) 
   {
       %obj = rshapes.getObject(%i); 
       logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %obj, 1); 
       rshapes.remove(%obj); 
       %obj.schedule(10, "delete"); 
       %count --; 
       %i--; 
   }


}

---------------------------------Server code: -----------------------------------------------

$rshapes = new simGroup(rshapes); 


function ServerCmdCreateFlowers(%client)
{
   %count = ClientGroup.getCount();
   %pos = vectorAdd(%client.player.getPosition(), "0 0 2"); 
   createFlowers(%pos);
   logMessage("CmdCreateFlowers:" @ %pos, 1); 
   for (%i = 0; %i < %count; %i++)
   {
		%cl = ClientGroup.getObject(%i);
                if( !%cl.isAIControlled() ){
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'CreateFlowers', %pos);
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'doReplicate');
                }
   }

}



function createFlowers(%pos)
{
   logMessage("clientCmdCreateFlower:" @ %pos, 1); 
   %flowers = new fxShapeReplicator(Flowers) {
      position = "-188.838 -108.911 168.018";
      rotation = "1 0 0 0";
      scale = "1 1 1";
      HideReplications = "0";
      ShowPlacementArea = "1";
      PlacementAreaHeight = "25";
      PlacementColour = "0.400000 0.000000 0.800000 1.000000";
      shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/Plants/flower.dts";
      Seed = "1376312589";
      ShapeCount = "148";
      ShapeRetries = "80";
      InnerRadiusX = "0";
      InnerRadiusY = "0";
      OuterRadiusX = "280";
      OuterRadiusY = "280";
      AllowOnTerrain = "1";
      AllowOnInteriors = "1";
      AllowOnStatics = "1";
      AllowOnWater = "0";
      AllowWaterSurface = "0";
      AlignToTerrain = "0";
      Interactions = "1";
      AllowedTerrainSlope = "90";
      TerrainAlignment = "1 1 1";
      FixShapeAspect = "0";
      ShapeScaleMin = "0.43 0.43 0.43";
      ShapeScaleMax = "1.18 1.18 1.18";
      ShapeRotateMin = "0 0 0";
      ShapeRotateMax = "0 0 0";
      OffsetZ = "0";
   };
   rshapes.add(%flowers); 
}

function ServerCmdRMFlowers(%client)
{
   rmFlowers();
   %count = ClientGroup.getCount();
   logMessage("CmdRMFolowers:"@%count); 
   for (%i = 0; %i < %count; %i++)
   {
		%cl = ClientGroup.getObject(%i);
                if( !%cl.isAIControlled() ){
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'rmFlowers');
                    commandToclient(%cl, 'doReplicate');
                }
   }

}

function rmFlowers()
{
   %count = rshapes.getCount(); 
   logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %count, 1); 
   for(%i=0; %i<%count; %i++) 
   {
       %obj = rshapes.getObject(%i); 
       logMessage("rmFlowers:" @ %obj, 1); 
       rshapes.remove(%obj); 
       %obj.schedule(10, "delete"); 
       %count --; 
       %i--; 
   }


}

Coolsailors updates (game trailer)

NewYork Virtual — 2006-08-02T06:56:15+00:00

Here are some of the updates:

New game trailer is completed:

WMV format(16mb, windows )
MPG format(28mb, linux and Mac )

Beta phase 1 server testing (7 days) is completed:
. Zone server unable to register in master server(all game servers). fixed
. Zone server log file grows too fast, 20 mb in 1 hour of running(resourceZone, LHQZone). fixed
. Adjusted all game zones light.
. Zone servers(6), 1 crash after 5 days running.
. Item inventory system was rewritten for saving 100s datablocks.
. User interface change.
. New bots testing.

Comments, and questions are welcome.

Coolsailors

NewYork Virtual — 2006-06-04T21:25:21+00:00

Some screen shots and video clips about our game:

Video clips are ready now

Coolsailors is a scalable Muti-Zone Online Game that combines RPG, FPS, and RTS elements.

Players choose a woody character, join one of the three nations: WM, LM, MM and battle each
other for control of this imperfect, dark, low-visibility virtual world.

Another "battle" game, well, players will have more other stuff to do than just "battle" each
other,such as building their own facilities, harvesting resources , trading items and etc.

This game world is divided into zones. Head-quarter zone and team-base zone are dedicated
to one nation. While resource zones, war zones and sports zones are shared with other nations.
Each team will have its own "Team Base" where they build their own facilities.

key words: Zone, Player and Event(plot?).

Here are some details about this game:

---Character
* Change character's appearance, such as hair, mask, hat, clothes, pants, shoes, shell, and etc.
* Use commands (by typing instead of clicking) to control your character.

---Game Events
* Quests.
* Battle events each week.

---Build And Research
* Collect resources.
* Use resources to build facilities.
* Research new technologies.
* Create items such as tools, and weapons.

---Player community
* Trade items with other players or NPC.
* Social events.

---Battles
* Team leader declares wars to specific war zone (relate to Game events).
* Protect occupied zones.

---Zones
* Head-quarter zone.
* Team-base zone.
* War zone.
* Resource zone.
* Space zone.
* Under-water zone.
* Sports zone.

---30 mins break between game playing:
* Log out yourself or system will log you out after 2 hours of playing.

Comments, and questions are welcome.