Lupus Mielziner Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Greetings i got the question if someone is in the blue mars beta the "secondlife" of tomorrow with a crisis like graphic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazorFox Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 The only Blue Mars I know of is the ambient/chill music Shoutcast station. >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyphre Iredell Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Its one of those newfangled internet massively multiplayer socially interactive titles that boasts character customization. Only this time utilizing the Crytek engine.I signed up, but thus far there are no signs of beta testing opening up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellervo Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I personally don't think it will be as successful as Second Life, mainly because it limits 'high level' content generation to professionals, and doesn't seem to have any scripting/serious building capabilities for the average person. There'll be the starting gear, and then the whoamfgwtfbbq gear that costs you the equivelant of 1000L+. That said I wish Second Life had the same kind of pipeline, otherwise I wouldn't have to relearn Maya in order to sculpt properly.Oh... and they suggest that they will charge 'pay to play' rates for 'certain' cities/servers, so you can damn well bet it'll be free to play only if you stay with a newbie avatar and don't ever y'know, actually do anything.Though, I guess I signed up for the beta for a reason. D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Mielziner Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 im in the closed beta since few days the graphi is awsome but like you say keller i think too that it wont stand his ground beside Secondlife cause the graphic is nice but the things you can do are at least at the moment more limited as in secondlife some areas builded by the game designers looks totaly awsome but player buildet things looks just like in secondlife with shadows and its a bit more smove and you got better effects on trees and things , but for what i say till now its mhm .. i can go golf maybe tenaki should join me , i will soon post some pictures and stuff and give more infos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Mielziner Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 god blue mars is crap you cant even guy or do anything you got even less as in the 2nd released beta of SL XD 1 sim to walk on wich looks like SL with shadows all avatars look 80 % same and nothing ealse to do as to golf or stand around XD .... nothing like building or anything implanted yet .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rei Kuhr Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Tried this myself. It's horrible. Character customization is...lacking. The world is especially lacking as there is not a thing to do other than wander around half-built zones. There is no client customization either, and not even a fullscreen mode. It runs like crap as well. I'm struggling to think of even a single good thing about it. In fact, I cant. Avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Mielziner Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 yush .. but beside that the game itself dont got any content yet the graphic is freally great and agains what i thought the lag isnt that hight but i feel tricked they post such pictures like this atlantic city and how great it is ect but there are not public and not implantet in the beta yet ... i think there will be a year needed or something before its playable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rei Kuhr Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 The graphics have the capability to be good, yeah. But none of it is optimized. Even in the start area, the home area, the water is just about the only thing there and it will still kill framerates due to having to render and endless ocean. Sure, it looks pretty, but they're also trying to make it look pretty far beyond what you're supposed to see anyways. It has a long way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyphre Iredell Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Yeah, I just got to trying this myself and was surprised that I get framerate stutters whenever I was looking at the water or that structure on it. I'm thinking its not so much a client as it is a testbed for the internal factors. You can only teleport to a home position and teleport from there to other zones which seems endless (which is interesting), but there is no way to travel anywhere else other than 'jogging' and teleporting back home. Stuff doesn't seem to interact properly either whenever I tried standing back up from a chair. A decent technical demo I guess? Nice array of animations at least for all sorts of expressions you can perform by default (as well as changing what the animation is on those expressions).But the graphics are amazing! Hair is rendered as good as it will ever get in computer graphics, and HDR lighting does the rest. Character customization certainly looks like crap, and the options are limiting, but it doesn't look nearly as bad while in-world (as there is no shadowing on the face in the creation menu). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinity Heckroth Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I thought blue mars was a book >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Flintoff Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 saw blue mars in a pc mag a while back. looked nice but suspected it'd be eh, due to the "only pros can make nice stuff" thing.SL would do well to overhaul there gfx engine though I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Mielziner Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 Blue mars looks great but DONT trust any stuff out of magazines or there page i was in the beta and stoped looking into it , you cant get any items in world you cant creat anything yet or maybe never the world you can explore in the beta like the only accessable city looks worse beside SL models dotn really look better as in SL and specialy you can do 2 things play golf or fly pass a circle course on a jungle island wich looks awesome but its not the general world graphic.as i registerd myself the shoerd pictures of a flying city with water falls on its sides like in some scifi movies and it looks awsome but this is not a ingame content Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellervo Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Snuck back and tried it out. The standard avatars are terrifying, you need to customize for a good 20 minutes to get something passable.But I also got into the Developer program. Their pipeline is ffffing simple and if the actual implementation is as simple as it looks, well, I'd love Blue Mars. Problem is, LUA scripting isn't really detailed, and... the place is fffing dead.On the plus side, if LL's going about it the smart way, ANYTHING you make for Blue Mars would be compatible with Second Life's mesh import. If they aren't, it's like 5 minutes more work to get it to "SL Standards". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupus Mielziner Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 would be awesome to get a graphic update soon but .. i think it wont happen i think they wont sacrifice money people spend on sl with not so powerfull pcs wich wont be able to run that engine n stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Vinciolo Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Does one have to speak to me about a competitor about Second Life, BLUE MARCH, somebody knows? />http://www.bluemars.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyphre Iredell Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 It could compete if it could actually do ANYTHING better. Unfortunately, even Sony's Home works better and has more interaction practically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoza Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 All the other Metaverse SL copycats are severely limiting, can't build or have to pay to, can pay to get money but cant get it back out, can't sell. SL's been called a 3D chat room, but all the others are more-so because that's all you can do in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellervo Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 I looked into Blue Mars, and while it has far more power for content developers then SL (even with mesh out), the amount of interaction is extremely limited and clumsy at best.Great graphics, terrible gameplay, essentially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadmon Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Not only that, but the true level of customization to your avatar is really limited to what you attach to it. You sorta get a basic male or female shape to work off of however you want, but you are all pretty much the same.The developer side of Blue Mars is also cumbersome, as it requires a special account status, client, and alot more hoops to jump through to set up shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
