Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Would have probably made a HUD for that if I was doing it,

HUDs came out about a month after I gave up. :-)

> or secluded people so they couldn't "see" outside their spot, 

I made them sit in a chair, and stay in mouse-look mode, and ended the 
game if they stood up or left first-person mode.  But it was a pain in 
the butt, moreso than actually writing the game.

Even genning up the game board was annoying, because it had to be made 
from a board, two chairs, and 25 playing pieces on each side, so if the 
plot was close to full, it would fail to create things halfway through 
and you couldn't tell.

> pay to "upload" the result to SL. Thought it would be a nice solution to 
> something I considered doing, but... What a fracking pain.

Strange. I read on their blog recently you could just use Bryce to make 
some geometry and use it. Maybe I misunderstood, or the article wasn't 
completely clear.

> Things are improving though, especially now that the client in open, but 
> there are just some things that are damn stupid still, and no idea when 
> they might be fixed.

Yeah.  Like I said, interesting idea, suboptimal execution. At some 
point, someone will get it right and eat their lunch.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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