3D Virtual Church

Posted on May 21, 2004 by scottsoapbox

ShipOfFools.com has created the first ever virtual church in 3D. This 3D church exists with the help of MacroMedia’s shockwave plugin – which you need to visit it. Once there, you are given control a 3D person that can move around, sit down, pray, cross themselves and of course do a hallelujah move. If too many people are there you are given a ghosted out character that can move around and listen but not talk or be seen by anyone else (due to bandwidth resrictions), otherwise you can talk and apparently (i’ve only been a ghost so far) select the avatar of your choice to represent you.

In their first week of being live, there were quite a few abuses of system and so further restrictions were put into place to keep one or two people from ruining it for (or at least distracting) everyone else. They have actual sermons on Sundays but it is open 24/7. When a sermon is not going on you can discuss things with fellow parishioners or practice doing the wave in the pews. While the stuff you can do is somewhat limited… it is still quite cool that they were able to pull off an interactive 3D environment in shockwave.

3D Church

Worst Modified Cars in the UK

Posted on May 20, 2004 by scottsoapbox

This guy has a site dedicated to the “Worst Modified Cars in the UK”…. i donno though… maybe the worst is just a lot -uh- worster here in the states but many of these aren’t bad (if you like Novas), but a couple of them are pretty funny.

Worst Modified Cars

Wood vs. Fiberglass

Posted on May 19, 2004 by scottsoapbox

Forming your own body kits from fiberglass is costly and time consuming, not to mention that mess it leaves. But now with this amazing breakthrough technology that fiberglass feasco is a thing of the PAST! Wooden body kits eliminate all of the problems associated with constructing your very own fiberglass body kit (and replace them with their own). No need for large, expensive, complicated machines to construct the fiberglass body panels needed to make your ride fly — now you can have similar results with simple tools through this almost on tv offer. That’s right with just simple wooden hand tools (and a few years apprenticing with a wood sculpter) you can create lavish body panels like these….