Walls of Text + One Main Menu To Rule Them All - Client Update 10/16/2018
How do you do! Today's update might be lacking on the spooky for this time of year, but it's still got some nice stuff in it.
While AArcade has tens of thousands of compatible addon props, I still want there to be a good selection of included props that people can use right out of the gate. So I jumped on over to www.turbosquid.com and found an excellent change machine model for just $7.50, so I bought it, compiled it, and included it in today's update.
If you like this, be sure to keep shooting me your donations, and I can, in turn, buy some more cool models from TurboSquid to include in the next update. ːdealwithitː
I also want to give a shout out to Dekogon, the artist who made that model, just for being such a talented 3D artist & letting his work go for affordable prices. Thanks for existing, guy!
Remember the old Main Menu? Remember the Atlas? Now they are one and the same. The sleek new Main Menu looks nicer, is easier to use, is less confusing, and puts more useful information in front of you ftw.
Now you can create text cards and spawn them into your arcades just like regular items! To do it, just go to the Library Browser (EZ Mode), click on the new TEXT button there, type in some words and hit ENTER! Then you can place your text into the map.
Not fancy enough? No problem! Just go to it's Item Properties menu to customize its font size, background color/image, border size, and much more to get it looking just like you want.
Text objects are multiplayer-compatible and even show their text when they aren't selected! ːilyː
AArcade has context sensitive buttons. That means that depending on what you are looking at in-game, the buttons might perform different actions.
Now there is an Arcade HUD that shows you what the important buttons will do at any given time! This should help immensely with new users getting their feet on the ground with AArcade, but also might show seasoned AArcade veterans some common features they may have overlooked in the past.
Don't want the ugly Arcade HUD cluttering up your view? No problem! Just hit F1 to toggle it on-the-fly, or go into your settings to flip it off. Either way gets you back to your clean HUD-free screen!
The Chat Box & Free Mouse Mode, both formally contained in the old Main Menu, are now moved into their own menus allowing them to be more streamlined & optimized.
You'll notice these menus now pop-up much faster than before and aren't cluttered with other stuff on them. Hit the Y button to bring up the chat box. Going into Free Mouse Mode depends on your settings, but for most people all you have to do is look at an empty spot in your arcade and hold down right-mouse button to be able to click on stuff with your mouse instead of aiming at them with your crosshair.
The metaverse is real & now. The digitization of human history, thought, knowledge, and activities has been accumulating since the dawn of the digital age. The metaverse is real and encompasses all things, real & fiction, past & present. As always, we reference things within the metaverse with links & shortcuts. Meta data. Anything, fact or fiction, historical or theoretical, and everything in between, can be represented by meta data in a shortcut. This is the reality in which we currently live.
We are used to visualizing this metaverse as boring desktop shortcuts, menus, or lists of bookmarks. Being thrown back into your Windows desktop between activities is what kills your immersion and forms your concept of what it's really like to use a PC.
This one aspect, what our shortcuts look like, is the laser focus of AArcade. To increase the joy that you experience every time you use your PC, without interfering with the reality of how you use your PC.
So party on & enjoy yourself! That's what AArcade is all about. ːilyː
At 7:15am Pacific time I pushed an update to fix the missing texture on the new Arcade Hud.
Change - Yes we can.
While AArcade has tens of thousands of compatible addon props, I still want there to be a good selection of included props that people can use right out of the gate. So I jumped on over to www.turbosquid.com and found an excellent change machine model for just $7.50, so I bought it, compiled it, and included it in today's update.
If you like this, be sure to keep shooting me your donations, and I can, in turn, buy some more cool models from TurboSquid to include in the next update. ːdealwithitː
I also want to give a shout out to Dekogon, the artist who made that model, just for being such a talented 3D artist & letting his work go for affordable prices. Thanks for existing, guy!
New Main Menu
Remember the old Main Menu? Remember the Atlas? Now they are one and the same. The sleek new Main Menu looks nicer, is easier to use, is less confusing, and puts more useful information in front of you ftw.
Walls of Text
Now you can create text cards and spawn them into your arcades just like regular items! To do it, just go to the Library Browser (EZ Mode), click on the new TEXT button there, type in some words and hit ENTER! Then you can place your text into the map.
Not fancy enough? No problem! Just go to it's Item Properties menu to customize its font size, background color/image, border size, and much more to get it looking just like you want.
Text objects are multiplayer-compatible and even show their text when they aren't selected! ːilyː
Arcade Heads-Up-Display
AArcade has context sensitive buttons. That means that depending on what you are looking at in-game, the buttons might perform different actions.
Now there is an Arcade HUD that shows you what the important buttons will do at any given time! This should help immensely with new users getting their feet on the ground with AArcade, but also might show seasoned AArcade veterans some common features they may have overlooked in the past.
Don't want the ugly Arcade HUD cluttering up your view? No problem! Just hit F1 to toggle it on-the-fly, or go into your settings to flip it off. Either way gets you back to your clean HUD-free screen!
Chat Box & Free Mouse Mode
The Chat Box & Free Mouse Mode, both formally contained in the old Main Menu, are now moved into their own menus allowing them to be more streamlined & optimized.
You'll notice these menus now pop-up much faster than before and aren't cluttered with other stuff on them. Hit the Y button to bring up the chat box. Going into Free Mouse Mode depends on your settings, but for most people all you have to do is look at an empty spot in your arcade and hold down right-mouse button to be able to click on stuff with your mouse instead of aiming at them with your crosshair.
GET HYPE!!!
The metaverse is real & now. The digitization of human history, thought, knowledge, and activities has been accumulating since the dawn of the digital age. The metaverse is real and encompasses all things, real & fiction, past & present. As always, we reference things within the metaverse with links & shortcuts. Meta data. Anything, fact or fiction, historical or theoretical, and everything in between, can be represented by meta data in a shortcut. This is the reality in which we currently live.
We are used to visualizing this metaverse as boring desktop shortcuts, menus, or lists of bookmarks. Being thrown back into your Windows desktop between activities is what kills your immersion and forms your concept of what it's really like to use a PC.
This one aspect, what our shortcuts look like, is the laser focus of AArcade. To increase the joy that you experience every time you use your PC, without interfering with the reality of how you use your PC.
So party on & enjoy yourself! That's what AArcade is all about. ːilyː
NOTE
At 7:15am Pacific time I pushed an update to fix the missing texture on the new Arcade Hud.
Change Log
- Fixed an issue with videos not auto-playing when you select them.
- Added a new prop: Change Machine.
- Added a new arcade HUD that shows what context-sensitive buttons would do at any given time.
- Added F1 as a hotkey toggle the Arcade HUD. (You can also do this from the Settings menu.)
- Added a way to spawn text notes into your map.
- Added transparency support for GIFs and other image types to the image viewer. (Only useful when using the Hologram cabinet.)
- Added a new cabinet: Hologram. It is a flat plane that displays your item. When selected, it also supports transparency.
- Improved how AArcade treats YouTube radio lists (RD) differently than YouTUbe play lists (PL).
- Improved Free Mouse Mode to be more focused & optimized.
- Improved the Chat Menu (Y button) to be more focused & optimized.
- Fixed a bug with creating a new type from the Item Properties menu.
- Removed "Hide Social & Chat" and "24 Hour Clock" from the Settings menu because the new main menu makes them obsolete.