Very nice. Hope we get more stuff like this.

Thanks. Do more items like this. Please

WOW!! Powerfully amazing! A Must have download!

very,VERY cool

There's so much we can do with this. Right now it's going into my spacecraft to serve as a ...a ...science fiction control panel thingy something.
Thankyou!!

All that shows in my game is a sort of spikey pink lump - like a mesh with no texture. Is it just me?

Just what i've allways wanted, Thanx!

good work, interesting.I waiting to try it.

What you are seeing is the base object mesh unrendered because you can not place it in that location. As this object makes use of several animated textures, which once rendered are shown as transparent except for the actual texture animation, the game turns off all rendering FX of an object when it is unable to be placed. As such you see something like the attached image.

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Calidan

Aha! Thanks man.

Pretty....Yes, make more stuff like this.

It seems that some people have been experiencing the problem of the crystal ball not rendering correctly. I am at present looking into what may be the cause and will upload a fixed version when available.

This seems to be only effecting a few (unless others have just not mentioned it) so please give it a try and PM if you also experience this problem (object remains looking like shown in my post previous in the thread)

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Ok

While I am resonably confident that the crystalball is Original + all EP complient, since I dont have nightlife (yet) I have no way to test it at the moment. All my Objects are created on an Original ONLY Installed system, and while I do have my wife test them on her computer (Orig + EP1(uni)) and they work fine for her, my apologies if it is a Nightlife issue.

That said .. I have tested this as best I can, checking to see if there was some game graphics setting that would stop it rendering properly. This had some strange results (for me) which I am unsure are related to a graphics card issue I have myself. ie. my ATI radeon 9200 wont display cinematics correctly - see the lower half normally but the top is just a mirror of that.

For me, when I set my LIGHTING (yeah only that effected the result for me) to LOWest setting, when the Cyrstal ball is unplaceable, I actually get a red rendered version. any setting higher than LOW LIGHTING produced the unrendered mess of animation mesh.

Note the attachments, rendered is with low, the darker of the maroon/purple was on medium, light on high *go figure*

If others could post their results with different EP's and graphics/lighting settings it would be appreciated (only if you are so inclined) so I can better improve my objects *grin* I may produce a lower plane version in the near future but the end result isnt as spectacular

Hope someone finds this info useful in better enjoying this lovely piece (one of my personal favorites

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Calidan, I have Uni, Nightlife and the patch, and am running an Nvidia FX5200 (256) with all of my graphics settings on high. What I get looks like your last two pics, with the pink fuzzy blob. It doesn't matter where I put the globe, or on which surface. Hope this helps. Maybe it is the patch? I had a lot of problem with getting my game to bumpmap with my card after I patched it.
Ooooh, I just thought... I have an early version of Gun Mod's lighting mod... here.

Thanks for the info. I'm also using Gun Mod's lighting fix (nice stuff) so not sure what may be up. Did you try turning the LIGHTING option to LOW in graphics config, as that produced the first of the images above even when unplacable (still not sure why it renders like that on LOW and mesh mess on higher)

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Funky item! This is so going into the workroom of my sorceress-queen character, it'll make a great 'communications crystal' for the story she's in! Thanks!

Also, I shall report back when I've tested it, and let you know what it does...

I have tried this object and I have to say that it is pretty nice. The animations work correctly and the object renders correctly in my game. I am using the lowest graphics settings on a centrino based notebook. The object looks fine if I place it on the floor, ground, or table. If I try to place it somewhere that it can't go, I get what looks most like the first picture. Sorry, I can't up the graphics settings to try anything else (the game won't let me).

Thanks for the feedback octobclrnts. I also get the mesh mess when unplaceable - even though it renders fine on the low lighting setting I rarely have my game set on low. I'm pleased it renders fine however once placed and hope you enjoy.

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Brilliant, an amazing creation, keep up the good work.

Ahh yes, it works when I put my lighting settings on low. Is there any way I could get it to work with my lighting on high, Calidan? It looks great, but the rest of the game looks rubbish on the low setting!

Well Im glad it works - even if its on low lighting. At this stage I'm still looking into what may be the cause, and suspect it may be due to the 'largeish' number of animation planes I'm using to create the effect.

I'm currently testing this and looking at a means to reduce the number required without a 'noticable' loss of quality and will keep this thread up dated on what I find out.

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awesome!!!

Sweet now I can freak off those stupid vistors! thanks

This is stunning, thank you!