10-04-2007, 03:05 PM
Aah.... the magic spell !!
Thought that was long forgotten...BTW, it was in The Mansion Family: Mind Mines.... I know I promised back then I'll share the secret.... now considerable time has passed, so I might be able to do so:
For that trick I have NOT USED any invisible bricks at all (and, unfortunately, I'm afraid building invisible bricks is not possible), but I created the impression of walking in air with the use of a layer trick.
I'm not even sure if I remember the correct order of proceedings, as I worked pretty long on that...trying out different things until it really worked..... but I achieved the effect by first adding bricks in a layer other than layer 4 and later removing them again.
The setting of the
BTW..... some of you might remember that (shortly after the release of TMF 1) I announced The Mansion Family 2, which I was building already back in springtime. TMF 2 featured the then-novelty SNOW and ICE and there I also wanted to introduce another
Unfortunately I never finished building TMF 2, as I was never completely satisfied with the snow landscapes (for which I got a little help from JoeB., who lshortly afterwards introduced snow in one of his mansions). So I abandoned the project (for now).
(It's a shame...as I'd really would have liked to show you the
8-))
You might be interested to hear that currently I'm working on TMF 3, working title
Thought that was long forgotten...BTW, it was in The Mansion Family: Mind Mines.... I know I promised back then I'll share the secret.... now considerable time has passed, so I might be able to do so:
For that trick I have NOT USED any invisible bricks at all (and, unfortunately, I'm afraid building invisible bricks is not possible), but I created the impression of walking in air with the use of a layer trick.
I'm not even sure if I remember the correct order of proceedings, as I worked pretty long on that...trying out different things until it really worked..... but I achieved the effect by first adding bricks in a layer other than layer 4 and later removing them again.
The setting of the
fringeis essential.
BTW..... some of you might remember that (shortly after the release of TMF 1) I announced The Mansion Family 2, which I was building already back in springtime. TMF 2 featured the then-novelty SNOW and ICE and there I also wanted to introduce another
magic spelltrick called
The Northern Lights(which, incidentially was also the subtitle of TMF 2).
Unfortunately I never finished building TMF 2, as I was never completely satisfied with the snow landscapes (for which I got a little help from JoeB., who lshortly afterwards introduced snow in one of his mansions). So I abandoned the project (for now).
(It's a shame...as I'd really would have liked to show you the
Northern Lightstrick...
8-))You might be interested to hear that currently I'm working on TMF 3, working title
Parachutes....which will also introduce an innovation. TMF 3 is already close to being finished, so it will definitely be released before TMF 2 !!
