Annabelle wrote:

The common black box:

The black box is interesting, it is actually the default link in point, but you get warped to the correct place before you can even notice you were there... even as far as cloth links it starts you there. With all the spheres in different places I guess that makes sense, or you would end up in a void a lot.

I believe the quabs also start in there.

Too bad they put the box in a panic link region for the 4th sphere, that can cause problems with linking out right away when you go there or the outside area, since when you go to those places the 4th sphere prp would be paged in...

Hello there,

Just to remind you that this post was originally created for Minkata, in order to be able to determine if - by touching a stone - it can be technically considered as a link or not.

It has now taken another direction. Ahnonay and sphere rotation are a very interesting subject, of course, but i would appreciate if you could take the road back to Minkata.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Explanation for Minkata boots & start of explanation for Dusty:

The boots is an object that can either stay right where it should be or disappear after being worn.

The boots are only seenable at night in Minkata which is not surprising compared to (let's take a comparison age: D'ni-Riltagamin yeah!!! ):

Zandi's Hawaiian Shirt : only in rainy
D'ni Googles: only in rainy
Rain Relto Page: only in rainy

Kickable Logs: only in sunny
Kickable Wood planck: only in sunny
Silly Crows Relto Page: only in sunny

Sparklies Calendar Relto Page: both states
Bahro Pillars Relto Page: both states

We see that there is another age having objects only appearing in a state and not the other one. When Minkata changes state (fading black screen), it gives time to each parameters within the age to be modified as such. The boots are just taken away or on the opposite made available to be grabbed.

Behind the process is the loading of Minkata_District_minkExteriorNight.prp instead of Minkata_District_minkExteriorDay.prp or vice versa.

For the kickable object like "Dusty", I can explain it to you but I won't do it on forum let me just say that for every kickable (even in D'ni-Riltagamin) whether or not they are seenable in both states they all keep their spatial location when a state change. For instance in the Cleft the wood planck in rainy cleft is at the same exact location as it was when you leave it in sunny cleft. The only difference is that in rainy cleft the visual and physical object has been removed at the coding level.

Dusty is in fact behaving as any kickable object would behave in an age with different states, the spatial location of it is kept.

Voilà!

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Great ! Thanks for the explanations !

Annabelle wrote:

D'ni Googles: only in rainy

I'm almost positive I've collected the goggles before even opening the tree, at least in some versions of the game. I remember because I noticed it was different to the accepted wisdom that they were Rainy Cleft only.

Then again, memory is a fickle thing.

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