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presents...
Welcome!
In a few moments or minutes (depending on your Internet connection speed) the ClydeGalleryVR will download into your browser. It is a bit large (400 x 300 pixels) so those of you running at 640 X 480 monitor resolution may need to adjust your browsers to see it all (or raise your monitor resolution to 800 x 600). We've done everything we can to make this work on as many machines as possible. So, we hope this will work for you. IF you have any problems, see our FAQs page for tips and answers!
There's also a wonderful MIDI Clyde Tune, "The Birth of Dreams" that you can play, independently of the Gallery itself, to accompany you on your tour.
ClydeGalleryVR is an interactive Virtual World experience. You do everything with your mouse (well, this IS a cat site, after all!), and you always use the LEFT mouse button. You can turn completely around in any scene (360 degree rotation), and jump from one scene to another, much like a interactive computer game.
Sir Edward Pussycat is your tour guide for the ClydeGallery part of your interactive adventure. The start scene will appear right away, and you can start exploring the world of Clyde. If you turn around, you will be facing a path that ends at the Sphere of Light. (We didn't know what else to call it.) Lady Gertrude is your guide in the Light.
NOTE: You can't leave the start scene until ALL of ClydeGalleryVR is loaded. Watch your browser's progress bar.
If that's enough for you, have fun exploring ClydeGalleryVR!
If you need help, click on the links above and the "dynamic duet" will explain what to do.
Have a wonderful time!
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"The Birth of Dreams"
by Lady Gertrude Dainty Paws
Fuss with the controller
to start the mewsic.
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Visiting ClydeGallery- by Sir Edward:
We made ClydeGallery from a series of panoramic VR scenes linked together. Panoramic scenes allow you to turn 360 degrees and contain "hot spots" (areas where you can click) to jump from one scene to another. What a concept!
Here are the ways I've learned to get around the Gallery.
When you start, you'll see a little "bull's eye"
to tell you where your cursor is. You'll see this a lot. It's like the arrow on your computer, only it looks different.
To turn, hold the mouse button down and drag your mouse around the scene. Depending on how you are moving, you'll see directional arrows. The scene will move in the opposite direction as your mouse. (I know, this is confusing.)
To get inside ClydeGallery, point at the door. Your cursor should change to a small arrow.
If you don't see an arrow, you have to wait. The arrow will NOT appear until the VR movie is completely loaded into your browser!
To jump forward, click on the arrow
Point at the door (or the golden cat inside). Your cursor should change to an arrow.
Press the SHIFT key to zoom IN any scene.
As you zoom in, the image becomes more and more blurry. There is no auto focus (sigh).
Press the CONTROL key to zoom OUT of any scene.
As you zoom out, the image becomes clearer but it will distort. That's because the scene is actually circular, yet trying to display on a flat screen. (Ever see flat maps of a round world? You get the idea!)
Whenever you jump to another scene, your zoom tool automatically resets to its optimum setting.
To face the golden cat once more, just click on it from any scene.
To leave ClydeGallery from any internal scene (Clyde picture), point at the door. Of, if you are facing the golden cat, just turn around and point at the door. You should see an arrow.
Point outside the door. You should see an arrow
Click on the path and you'll be where you started, only facing the opposite direction. You can point and click on to the Sphere of Light,
Click on the Sphere of Light to enter it.
Or, at any time before entering the Sphere of Light, you can turn around and go back into ClydeGallery.
Well, that's it for me! Scroll down and Lady Gertrude will explain how to work the Sphere of Light!
Visiting The Sphere of Light - by Lady Gertrude:
We wanted our ClydeGalleryVR to be something special so we made a double type of VR movie.
The Sphere of Light is a VR object movie. It contains a rotating picture cube and text that says: "Return to ClydeGalleryVR". When you enter the Sphere of Light, the picture cube is rotating. It seems kind of jerky because it moves in 45 degree increments. We did that to save file space (or do you like waiting hours for something to download?) Really, we had your best interests at heart!
In the Sphere of Light, the cursor is an open hand.
Move it to one side of the screen and click. The picture cube will stop rotating.
Hold the mouse button down and the hand will close.
Drag left or right. The cube will rotate, following your cursor as you move. Now here's the tricky part (you knew that was coming, didn't you?)
Sometimes the cube will rotate UP and DOWN even though you are dragging the mouse left and right!
That's because the cube has six faces (four sides, one top, one bottom), but you can only drag left and right. So we had to make a left/right drag make the cube rotate up/down at times. If you continue dragging the cube will eventually rotate left or right again. See our FAQs page for an explanation of this under QuickTime™VR FAQs.
If you want to spin the cube rapidly, (because this just isn't confusing enough!) point toward the very left or right side of the movie screen. You'll see a left or right arrow.
Click and the cube will spin in that direction. The speed of the spin depends on how close you are to the edge of the screen.
Anyway, the object of this object movie is to rotate the cube so that you can read all the faces and see what they offer.
Click, hold and drag the mouse to turn the cube. Release the mouse button whenever you see any cube face in full view. (such as a picture of me!)
Each cube face can take you to an interesting Web page. (Why is this an appealing idea?) You'll see a URL cursor
whenever you can do this.
To visit the Gertrude and Eddie pages, click on one of our noses in one of our pictures on the cube.
To visit Apple Computer's QuickTime Web pages, click on the center of the Q in the QuickTime™ logo.
To send an e-mail to ClydeSight2.0!, click on my nose on the cube face that has my picture with the envelopes (envelopes, mail, get it?).
To exit the object (or would that be objectionable) VR experience and receive your parting gift, say "Bye-Bye" to Clyde. Click on Clyde's nose.
To return to the ClydeGallery itself, click on the text at the bottom of the scene.
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Credits:
A lot of work and a lot of software went into the making of this silly VR experience. We'd like to thank:
Sir Edward Pussycat - ClydeGallery building and set design.
Lady Gertrude Dainty Paws - Sphere of Light and picture box programming.
Lady Gertrude Dainty Paws - "The Birth of Dreams" MIDI Clyde Tune.
ClydeGallery built with Bryce 5
Golden Cat Statue built with Poser 4
Post Processing with Adobe's Photoshop
ClydeGalleryVR movie compiled with The VR Toolworks
VR movie made possible by Apple QuickTime™
Couldn't Work The Gallery? We're sorry if you couldn't get it to work (try our FAQs page). In consolation, Gert and Eddie offer you a FREE framed ClydeGalleryVR desktop picture suitable for Windows Wallpaper or MAC Desktop Picture! Just click the picture at the left.
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