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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2015, 10:42:02 PM »
Speaking of nostalgia, and for the life of me I can't find further discussion of it here in the forums, Megiddo started a project that would, in my opinion, and even at the time, have blown SpaceBuild away. http://forums.ulyssesmod.net/index.php/topic,184.0.html is the only discussion I can find. (and even it links to a LONG dead link)
I can't remember the name of the project, but basically, if a map had spheres/other shapes in it, a player could WALK AROUND THEM in 3d space.
The map did require special internals. If more than one 'planet', you could break gravity, free float, and then land on the other 'planet' and walk 'upright'.
It was slightly buggy, but was great for beta idea/code/implementation.
Last I remember, it died, partially due to Zyklus (Stickly Man's older brother (did ya know he had an older brother that used to hang with Megiddo?)) not making more maps for it.
Only partially. Megiddo has always been one to start awesome projects he barely has time for.

Now that I think of it, I'm amazed he's even married.
Wait, I'm amazed he found time to date or to propose.

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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2015, 11:08:52 PM »
I remember this.
I think it was called Ulysses Universe or something to that effect. It was pretty neat.

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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2015, 08:30:18 AM »
Yup, "Ulysses Universe"- That brings back memories :P  I think there was one main problem we couldn't quite figure out, which was how we could get the player entity itself to rotate around the planet, along with bugs with walking and such. There was also an engine update which caused Zyklus's spherical maps to bee too complex or.. something. The way he was using to make the spherical planets broke. :(

Surprisingly, the FP thread still exists:
http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=423976

And, if you search around, the name gets mentioned on other Facepunch threads talking about similar things. There's even a wiki page on how to create maps for it! https://maurits.tv/data/garrysmod/wiki/wiki.garrysmod.com/index65c5-2.html

Good times, indeed! .. (Crap, I really want to revive UU now...)
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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2015, 11:26:04 AM »
Finish next release of ULib and ULX first MegStickly Man!
:) Mistake intended, acting just like him.
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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2015, 05:03:02 PM »
Finish next release of ULib and ULX first MegStickly Man!
:) Mistake intended, acting just like him.

Is there really going to be another release of ulib/ulx? What else can their possibly be?
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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2015, 11:51:22 PM »
We just need to take what's on our Github and make a proper release out of it (after doing a final check for any bugs to be squashed.) Nothing too fancy :P There are still quite a few people who go straight for the "Stable" release version, which is about a year and a half old.
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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2015, 02:42:35 AM »
May ULX reign forever, and terror of not being in databases yet..
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Re: Multiple questions!
« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2015, 09:20:42 AM »
On the topic of Ulysses Universe...
http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1453630&p=47234698&viewfull=1#post47234698  (Caution, first post on this thread has MANY video embeds)

Looks like the issue of player movement and rotation has been solved? :P
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