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Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Grogyan — Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:34 am

Author: Grogyan

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:34 am

With my accent I pronounce it as Ah-ra Paa-ts, anyway going off track here.

How many of you have visited these shells?

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Gorobay — Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:43 am

Author: Gorobay

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:43 am

I pronounced it "ahrah pahts" (OTS) or "ara pac" (NTS). The "Pahts" part is definitely "pahts"/"pac", at least in D'ni.

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Alahmnat — Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:06 am

Author: Alahmnat

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:06 am

Aura Pots

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

CrisGer — Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:48 am

Author: CrisGer

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:48 am

kodokahnræd kæm lorahg kenen b’ken shin b-baikh b’totee rahnahl tso mahrntahvom

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

AndyCloseEyes — Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:24 pm

Author: AndyCloseEyes

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:24 pm

So what are we pronouncing? The name of a base Age to work from that someone wrote?

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Tweek — Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:12 pm

Author: Tweek

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:12 pm

I pronounce it Ahrah pats (rhymes with cats)

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Junee — Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:28 pm

Author: Junee

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:28 pm

Mowog wrote:

By the way, does anybody know what the name means?

"Pahts" is the D'ni word for "city". "Ahra", who knows? And I think I read "City of Ahra" somewhere recently so I bet that's the one. (AH-ra pAHts?)

I've been taking a sneak peak of the contestant shells and they are all very impressive. Congrats all!

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

LaReh — Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:53 pm

Author: LaReh

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:53 pm

It was a privilege to be a judge in this round of the RAD contest, all of the shells were great,
but alas, there can be only one winner. Congrats to all creators!

As for Ahra Pahts, I've always pronounced it AH-ra PaHts similar to "Car Parts" with a Harvard accent.

Has anyone asked Aloys?

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Grogyan — Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:18 am

Author: Grogyan

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:18 am

I know I should have put this disclaimer in, for those that think that we Writers will spit out Ages in a month or less, think again.
One of the concepts for holding contests like these is as a stop gap measure, so that when we Writers get really good, full of content Ages out of these contests, they can be processed by the Guild of Maintainers and onto the public MORE server

Last contest Team Andy Legate and friends at the Guild of Maintainers won with their awesome Age, Zephyr Cove, which was done long before the features like animations and wave sets were included in the GoW PyPrp plugin, since then this Age is looking so sweet, you'll forget that its a game

Much gratitude goes to the plugin developers, considering that they have to work with the abysmal Blender API.

All these Ages thus far have been built mostly entirely in Blender, a free and open source modelling and animation suite

I myself have stopped working on Ages for a short while whilst I work on a plugin for Blender that will hopefully allow rides like that in Er'Cana or Ahnonay a lot easier to do.

Avatar animations (armature rigging in Blender) aren't implemented, nor are complex GUI's like those found in Tolesa, i'm sure the plugin deveopers are working hard on a way to prepare a port of the plugin to work with the upcoming more.

We the Writers are just as anxious as you are to get content for you to play with, but right now, you can follow the link in the first post and download Ahra Pahts, and using ULM (available link is at the GoW) you too can visit these Shells in the offline game of Uru Complete Chronicles or Uru Path of the Shell.

Other shells not in this contest but are also available in the current version of Ahra Pahts include Ronert the Rebuilder's Shell #111, a 3D maze for you to solve, and my Shell #119, which even though its not finished still has enough content in it for you to enjoy, or even just to listen to the New Zealand native bird, the tui.

Also note that Aha Pahts is not completely finished either, but is nearing to its big 1.0 version release real soon (when Aloys' fiinally has his internet connection sorted out)

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

raider7 — Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:29 pm

Author: raider7

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:29 pm

Great work, Congrats to the winners, we have people here with great artistic talent. Well done to everyone.

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Kero — Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:26 pm

Author: Kero

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:26 pm

hauntedcity wrote:

sideshow118 wrote:
Could someone tell me how to properly pronouce Ahra Pahts. I keep hearing "Aura Pants" in my head evertime I read it.

Ha! I hear "AH-rah Pants"!

Pants on fire,
HauntedCity

My take is Ara Fats......

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

hauntedcity — Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:27 pm

Author: hauntedcity

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:27 pm

sideshow118 wrote:

Could someone tell me how to properly pronouce Ahra Pahts. I keep hearing "Aura Pants" in my head evertime I read it.

Ha! I hear "AH-rah Pants"!

Pants on fire,
HauntedCity

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Tai'lahr — Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:54 pm

Author: Tai'lahr

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:54 pm

I'm not surprised by the quality of these entries; I've always believed in the community's potential for this kind of thing. What blows me away, though, is the "rapid" part.

Congratulations everyone! You're all winners in my book.

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

mtn'man — Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:33 pm

Author: mtn'man

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:33 pm

Congrats and thanks to the judges as well.

Re: Announcing the winner of the July 2008 RAD contest

Shandi.ni.Kayara — Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:58 pm

Author: Shandi.ni.Kayara

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:58 pm

Congratulations to all. They are all wicked cool creations.