Introducing Portals!

Varsha · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:04 pm Post subject: Introducing Portals!

UPDATE on Page 19

Hanging out in chat rooms with their friends is one of the most popular activities our customers enjoy in IMVU. The room owners decorate their rooms to show off their creativity and the diversity of furniture and scene items available in our virtual catalog. So what can make this experience even more exciting? What if you could link multiple rooms together and folks could travel between them through â€œportalsâ€ or doors? Well, that is exactly what our team has developed and added to the latest version of our 3D chat experience.

The feature has been introduced in our latest pre-release 465.40 and will be part of our next full release (466.0).

How do portals work?

Portals are very easy to use and add to your rooms for linking multiple rooms together. Portal s can be added to any furniture item in your room. The new portal tool is located in the furniture tools set. Simply click on the portal tool and then hover over the furniture item you want to turn into a portal. The portal node will be distinct and placed at the base node of the furniture.

Select the destination for that door using the menu options. You can choose any public room from the list of your favorite rooms, rooms you own or have recently visited. Save and you are done! You can now view the portal node on that furniture item along with the name of the room it links to.

Use portals to link a private room to a public room or a public room to another public room. A public room can however not lead to a private room.

Itâ€™s also quite easy to delete the portal from a furniture item or change its destination. Simply click on the portal node and edit.

We look forward to your comments, questions and feedback as you use this beta version out. We are enthused about the endless possibilities portals bring to the way our community plays and enjoys IMVU!

Thank you!
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Empurios · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 278 Location: United Kingdom

Sounds exciting. Smile

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oOKabbyOo · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 398 Location: USA - OK

Deleting a portal does nothing but close the dialog,

Changing a portal to another destination does nothing even is you click Save
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ShiningForever · Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 866

I like this idea...i wanted something like this since long...can't wait to see it and try it out.
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Varsha · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:52 pm Post subject:

Empurios · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 278 Location: United Kingdom

I just added a portal to some roses linkiing to my public room and the client crashed and vanished.
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oOKabbyOo · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 398 Location: USA - OK

Empurios · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 278 Location: United Kingdom

The added portal shows the name of my public room with the cute lil icon but clicking on it doesn't do anything at the moment. No jumping to my public room at all.

I added a second portal and the screen froze then I jumped to my default room and not the portalled room I had selected. Also the cute little portal icon has also followed me to my default room. Clicking on it doesn't do anything, trying to delete it doesn't delete it.

Closing and opening the default room shows that the portal link has vanished. Off to try the main room again to see if the portal link is still there.

LOL I was about to say, "Bravo! it's worked". I spoke to soon. The portal room opened and then the client crashed and vanished.

Ok! logged back on and opened my room. Clicked on the portal again (got very excited) saw the new chat box open with Seer Sanctuary written on it and poooof. Client crashed and vanished again.

Third time I logged back on after the crash, loaded up my room and clicked on another portal link to my public room and again crashed. Smile

I'm off to take a break.
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N8 · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:07 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all the crash reports! We've got that issue fixed and ready for the next prerelease.
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LadyElegantBloodK · Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 5364 Location: USA

I'm not even gonna touch this one but what I find really sad is when someone or a company snags an idea from one of its users and doesn't even give them the proper credit. Go ahead and ban me or warn me for this comment but everyone knows how true that is.
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REBELoe · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 82 Location: USA

SO they can link to any room that is public:
I wonder if the owner does not want that done for some reason, can they decline to have their room linked to someone elses?

Shouldnt they have permission to link to a different persons room ?
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NaughtyKitty69x · Joined: 30 May 2009 Posts: 325 Location: USA

Ok trying to add portal it starts to load room then it crushies client giveing me this error...

electro57 · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 1721 Location: Canada

Got it to work one time then the little floating thing poofed and never came back very much like my last pay check !
Shocked

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oOChrissyOo · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 17 Location: USA

New Portal in 465.40 isnt working for me........Its lets me set it up, but I dont get the blue dot to use....????? Crying or Very sad

Varsha · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:11 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback so far. We are monitoring. This is definitely in its testing phase but we wanted our community to test it out.
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