This reminds me of Encarta. Encyclopedia on a cd-rom, with audio, video and images on many subjects, all clickable.
Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
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Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#82Horrible UI but would be cool otherwise. On an Android and the performance was fine but way too much finger swiping.
Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#83Horrible UI but would be cool otherwise. On an Android and the performance was fine but way too much finger swiping.
On a laptop with trackpad it was enjoyable for me.
Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's part of the experience man. Scrolling down is used to simulate a movement forward like walking thru the scenery....
Not a great part of the experience, certainly. Needs WASD key support if nothing else. It's almost unusable with a mouse. If you're going to make it look like a first-person perspective game, it needs to act that way.
I wonder when the first crack comes out for WASD + free movement.
Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#85This is really cool. Seeing these beautiful colors I realize how much how I imagine the ancient world is shaped by museum artifacts and photos in textbooks, which show raw and brown/grey/white stones, rusty tools and weapons. I've grown thinking about pre-medieval times as a landscape of ruins. It would be like if future humans were picturing our current world as nothing but bombed cities. It's a really cool project.…
Assassins Creed has a standalone series called Discovery Tour. It is extremely similar yet has freemode, way more historical points of interest, and has people walking around. https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery...
Thanks for sharing this, never knew these existed - gonna be great to go through them!
Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#86Horrible UI but would be cool otherwise. On an Android and the performance was fine but way too much finger swiping.
Yeah, I'm on mobile and gave up less than a minute in.
Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#87There are a few videos on youtube of Iran in the old days and it seemed like quite a beautiful place
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#88I visited Persepolis in 2016 -- having this experience before the actual visit would have been incredible!
I visited maybe around a decade ago, and was truly saddened by the state of it. It was all in ruin, maybe 1 guard watching the whole area, anyone could come, take a piece and leave, and many unfortunately do. The best pieces of Persepolis are sadly kept outside the country, in places such as the Louvre [0]. Iran itself does such a poor job at taking care of it's truly breathtaking historical and touristic sites. A fe…
It's sad how much has been stolen and kept in western museums. Just look at what's in the British Museum in London...
Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#89It was unwatchable for me on a recent lenovo and an Australian internet connection. Sounds cool though.
Re: Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
#90Didn't work on my android, but on my PC this is an amazing experience!