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Improved 3D Graphics on Frenzoo.com

What would a 3D chat world be without it's visuals?

Today we updated how we use the Unity 3D engine to improve quality of rendered avatars and scenes. 

Here's a "Before and After" pic, capped on the same machine in the same scene:

For the technical minded, the following was improved:

- Anti-aliasing
- Improved alpha blending
- Adjusted texture compression
- Bone limits increased
- Nisotropic texure adjusted

The net effect is that the same assets made by creators look smoother and clearer now, with minimal impact on performance. 

No tricky settings to adjust, the change has been applied across the site and to everyone.

Enjoy.

Introducing the Creator Pass. $US 6.95. For life.

We at Frenzoo love nothing more than launching new features into the arms of our growing community.

And one very important feature we have launched earlier today: the brand new Creator Pass.

With this single pass, you can upload 3d items to the shop from Blender, Collada, 3D Max, Maya, Sketchup as well as also texturing and deriving from other peoples templates to make your own shop items.  It's perfect for those who like to make items using Photoshop or GIMP. 

(Previously texturing and deriving were only available as part of the VIP monthly subscription)

The reaction this morning has been great, with several new purchases already.

Also people with old Pro passes have been upgraded free to the new Creator Pass.

"I love the news!! I have so many seamless textures that I want to sell and I was just looking into it last week how to upload textures but saw that I couldnt as a pro creator. Now I can."

LovedWarrior, 3d Modeler and animator (as heard on the forum)

At only $US 6.95 for lifetime pass as a beta special, it's a steal. 

Get one now

Less is more

While we are constantly adding new features to Frenzoo, we also often take out features or simplify them.

One example is the profile page which we changed yesterday.

Before it used to automatically load the 3d scene and avatar of the person whose profile you were visiting.  Whilst cool, it caused a lot of confusion from newbies in usability tests who thought they could chat directly with that person there.

Also for active Frenzooians who just want to visit a profile to leave quick wall posts or see what is happening it was overkill to load the full 3d scene in every case.

So, we heard all the feedback and have changed the behavior.  Now when you visit any profile, your own included it will default to a 2D snapshot pic of the users avatar, with a button to allow you to go ahead and load 3d as well:

Then after clicking the "switch to 3D" button, you view the full 3d:

Sometimes it's all the little things that make the difference right?

Hi, everyone. The site upgrade is finished and the site is started again now. Thank you

Upgrade tonight 130am ET - Downtime

Greetings,

We'll be upgrading Frenzoo.com for increased capacity tonight.

We'll be starting 13 Aug 130am ET, and will take up to 3 hours.

Apologies for the longer than usual downtime - it's a big operation.  The good news is that the site should be faster after it's done.

For updates and when it's back up you can follow us on our Twitter handle

Thanks,
Simon

@ Team Frenzoo