Dino’s Extinct, Liberty gone
February 29, 2008 2:13 pm
Where once the Liberty sim was, there now lays a barren, moor-like piece of virtual land: the dinosaur skeletons are gone. Is that a sad thing? Maybe. But the way they disappeared was awesome: the 575 attending avatars, spread over 4 sims, had a great time looking at meteor showers, acid rain and a huge rainbow coloured Greenie’s mothership crashing on the sim. It was an impressive show-off of what particle spam, megaprim litter and rezzers can do when they are not in griefer hands.
Feedback went from ‘Woot!’ over ‘Wow, that’s awesome’ to ‘Maybe a bit laggy’. Of course, the frame rate slowing down is something that can not (yet?) be avoided which such a large and script- and texture intensive show. Neither can you avoid that on neighbouring - full - sims. Very impressive was how a lot of avatars dressed for the occasion: some believed in taking all the necessary precautions and showed up with a helmet and gas mask, others came as dino’s that were able to escape from the sim, and most? Well, they were their colourful, beautiful, special selves. Because nothing is as much fun as sitting on a couch in the sky between a human and a rabbit whilst watching the apocalypse take place! ;)
What I enjoyed most out of the splendid show, great company and lots of things to learn? The photographing. I was a bit tired of SL snapshotting, I must admit. Being able to control everything - model, sun direction, weather, day time, pose, objects in or out it - is fun, but after a while gets boring. So it’s was pretty neat to have my cam focussed on a dino, but the snapshot failed because a meteor had to rezz right in front of the lens. For once, Second Life photography was about timing, good luck and catching the moment again. So luckily, the mother ship landing and meteor shower sequence was repeated a few times. More photographs by me of the SL Dino Destroy Event in the appropriate Flickr set.
If you have screenshot snapshot SL photography or machinima footage or even your version of the Dino Disaster story, make sure to add it to Rezzable’s Flickr Group so everyone can enjoy it, or post a link to it here in the comments.
Machinima of Dino Destory:
What Killed the Dinosaurs? - by Kasu Ling
The end of Libery - by Rob Danton
Dinos Impact - by Rezzable
5 Responses to “Dino’s Extinct, Liberty gone”
Waaahhhh!!!! I missed it… I didn’t even know where to go to see it (that is, if I had the time, Damn RL.. ^.^’ )
Oh… Please let the be lost of photos and machinima of this, this disaster.
Kasumi, the first one can be found here, and is made by Kasu Ling. The ‘you can Bet on it’, is of course, a reference to Betlog Hax.
Two more Dino Destory machinima’s added, one by Rezzable and one by Rob Danton.
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