basic functionalities not functioning?

> Hi,
>
> I've recently installed Croquet and have been going through  
> tutorials trying to
> learn my way around. I've been having a few problems and don't know  
> enough yet
> to know if I'm doing something wrong, if my installation is wrong,  
> or if my
> machine isn't high tech enough.
> The tutorials mentioned on the opencroquet.org site and in the  
> Croquet Readme
> file are broken links:
> - from the README:
> http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu/croquet/croquetMovies/ 
> updateToMotion.mov
> - from the tutorials page(http://opencroquet.org/index.php/ 
> Tutorials): all the
> links to the hedgehog server
>
> I've been using the tutorial from http://www.dmu.com/crb/ but have  
> been having
> a few problems.
>
> I'm working on a single WinXp machine.
> 1) when i would connect the Movie Island with the simple island  
> things would
> usually crash before I could get very far. The background rendering  
> would go a
> bit haywire when avatar2 would cross into island1. A mouse over  
> from one island
> to the other would freeze the system. I installed the OpenAl driver  
> and that
> seemed to fix things for the background rendering but it still  
> freezes. It
> doesn't freeze systematically so I can't list any steps yet to  
> reproduce it.
> Why would the OpenAl driver have helped. Isn't that for audio needs?
>
> 2) if i open a 2D project in an island, the avatar in that island  
> can interact
> with the project, so far so good. but when i connect in another  
> island and i'm
> at the stage where the portal to island1 shows on island2, i can  
> angle the
> portal to see my2Dproject portal on island1. There is nothing  
> rendered though
> on the my2Dproject although I can see it properly in island1. If  
> avatar2 goes
> into island1 he can't do anything to the my2Dproject.
> In theory you can manipulate all the objects present in the island  
> you're in
> right regardless if it's yours? Are you supposed to be able to  
> manipulate
> objects that you have sight of through portals? In my case, I can only
> manipulate the location, size and rotation of an object from  
> another island but
> not the content.
>
> I'm also looking for examples, and not just descriptions, of  
> running croquet
> applications. Any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> Monica

> Hi Monica,
>
> I've fixed the links to the movies. Please try them again.
>
> Peter Moore
> University Technology Development Center
> University of Minnesota
> [hidden email]
>
> On May 24, 2007, at 5:08 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've recently installed Croquet and have been going through tutorials
>> trying to
>> learn my way around. I've been having a few problems and don't know
>> enough yet
>> to know if I'm doing something wrong, if my installation is wrong, or
>> if my
>> machine isn't high tech enough.
>> The tutorials mentioned on the opencroquet.org site and in the Croquet
>> Readme
>> file are broken links:
>> - from the README:
>> http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu/croquet/croquetMovies/updateToMotion.mov
>> - from the tutorials page(http://opencroquet.org/index.php/Tutorials):
>> all the
>> links to the hedgehog server
>>
>> I've been using the tutorial from http://www.dmu.com/crb/ but have
>> been having
>> a few problems.
>>
>> I'm working on a single WinXp machine.
>> 1) when i would connect the Movie Island with the simple island things
>> would
>> usually crash before I could get very far. The background rendering
>> would go a
>> bit haywire when avatar2 would cross into island1. A mouse over from
>> one island
>> to the other would freeze the system. I installed the OpenAl driver
>> and that
>> seemed to fix things for the background rendering but it still
>> freezes. It
>> doesn't freeze systematically so I can't list any steps yet to
>> reproduce it.
>> Why would the OpenAl driver have helped. Isn't that for audio needs?
>>
>> 2) if i open a 2D project in an island, the avatar in that island can
>> interact
>> with the project, so far so good. but when i connect in another island
>> and i'm
>> at the stage where the portal to island1 shows on island2, i can angle
>> the
>> portal to see my2Dproject portal on island1. There is nothing rendered
>> though
>> on the my2Dproject although I can see it properly in island1. If
>> avatar2 goes
>> into island1 he can't do anything to the my2Dproject.
>> In theory you can manipulate all the objects present in the island
>> you're in
>> right regardless if it's yours? Are you supposed to be able to manipulate
>> objects that you have sight of through portals? In my case, I can only
>> manipulate the location, size and rotation of an object from another
>> island but
>> not the content.
>>
>> I'm also looking for examples, and not just descriptions, of running
>> croquet
>> applications. Any pointers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Monica
>

> The link to the Flash demo of the CCPainter package
> (http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu/croquet/croquetMovies/ 
> ccpainter1.htm)
> is broken too.
>
> Regards, Marcus
>
>
>
> Peter Moore wrote:
>> Hi Monica,
>>
>> I've fixed the links to the movies. Please try them again.
>>
>> Peter Moore
>> University Technology Development Center
>> University of Minnesota
>> [hidden email]
>>
>> On May 24, 2007, at 5:08 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've recently installed Croquet and have been going through  
>>> tutorials
>>> trying to
>>> learn my way around. I've been having a few problems and don't know
>>> enough yet
>>> to know if I'm doing something wrong, if my installation is  
>>> wrong, or
>>> if my
>>> machine isn't high tech enough.
>>> The tutorials mentioned on the opencroquet.org site and in the  
>>> Croquet
>>> Readme
>>> file are broken links:
>>> - from the README:
>>> http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu/croquet/croquetMovies/ 
>>> updateToMotion.mov
>>> - from the tutorials page(http://opencroquet.org/index.php/ 
>>> Tutorials):
>>> all the
>>> links to the hedgehog server
>>>
>>> I've been using the tutorial from http://www.dmu.com/crb/ but have
>>> been having
>>> a few problems.
>>>
>>> I'm working on a single WinXp machine.
>>> 1) when i would connect the Movie Island with the simple island  
>>> things
>>> would
>>> usually crash before I could get very far. The background rendering
>>> would go a
>>> bit haywire when avatar2 would cross into island1. A mouse over from
>>> one island
>>> to the other would freeze the system. I installed the OpenAl driver
>>> and that
>>> seemed to fix things for the background rendering but it still
>>> freezes. It
>>> doesn't freeze systematically so I can't list any steps yet to
>>> reproduce it.
>>> Why would the OpenAl driver have helped. Isn't that for audio needs?
>>>
>>> 2) if i open a 2D project in an island, the avatar in that island  
>>> can
>>> interact
>>> with the project, so far so good. but when i connect in another  
>>> island
>>> and i'm
>>> at the stage where the portal to island1 shows on island2, i can  
>>> angle
>>> the
>>> portal to see my2Dproject portal on island1. There is nothing  
>>> rendered
>>> though
>>> on the my2Dproject although I can see it properly in island1. If
>>> avatar2 goes
>>> into island1 he can't do anything to the my2Dproject.
>>> In theory you can manipulate all the objects present in the island
>>> you're in
>>> right regardless if it's yours? Are you supposed to be able to  
>>> manipulate
>>> objects that you have sight of through portals? In my case, I can  
>>> only
>>> manipulate the location, size and rotation of an object from another
>>> island but
>>> not the content.
>>>
>>> I'm also looking for examples, and not just descriptions, of running
>>> croquet
>>> applications. Any pointers?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Monica
>>
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