CUni Help

Browser Documentation and Tutorials

• Active Worlds Online Help.
• Active Worlds Help (Mirror), if you can't access their web site. Note, this is the help from version 3.6, so it is a bit out of date.
• Activeworlds Forums, official message board for the software CUni is based on. The content refers to a different Universe; only members of their Universe can post, but you can read.
• ActiveWiki, the official ActiveWorlds Wiki contains documentation and information by ActiveWorlds staff and users.
• New Features in 4.1, change log and new feature documentation from the ActiveWiki (this information is not integrated into the main online help).
• SciFair Help Pages (building tutorials), by John Sun.
• Xelagot Help Pages by John Sun.
• CUni Browser Interface Guide Handout, covers navigating and chatting; last updated for version 3.4.
• CUni Building Guide Handout; last updated for version 3.4.

Object Lists

• Lists of AlphaWorld models and MegaPath models (as hosted by AW). These are available in most CUni worlds, but the exact files available will vary slightly from these lists. Replace .zip with .rwx when building.
• Visual Object Path Browser provided by by AWPortals; this contains sections for the AlphaWorld and MegaPath building sets, which are both available in most of our worlds.
• Categorized AlphaWorld model list, from the AW 4.1 documentation.
• 3D primitives model set documentation added to AlphaWorld set in November, 2006. These are available in most of CUni.

Texture Lists

• Lists of AlphaWorld textures and MegaPath textures (as hosted by AW). These are available in most CUni worlds, but the exact files available will vary slightly from these lists. .jpg files are textures, and .zip files are masks.
• Categorized MegaPath textures list by TonyCat.

Advanced Tutorials

• Modeling Tutorials, by Dan White (avatars, sprites, pict/sign objects, texturing, Accutrans, etc)
• .rwx file format, conversion, texturing help, by Mike Hollenbeck.
• Sprites Tutorial, by Statia Luszcz.
• More on Making Sprites, by Rich Bernstein. Includes performance considerations, alternate steps, usage, and custom sprite models.