Virtual Assembly Nebuchadnezzar Modeling Program

With all the renewed interest in hovercraft, battles in the Real, the power plants and the like, someone might be interested in a way to get some good quality 3D hovercraft pictures from various angles to use in your own graphics.  The Nebuchadnezzar Virtual Assembly model building program allows you to make a 3D Nebuchadnezzar just like you would a plastic-model-glue-and-paint kit.  It is rather tedious and time consuming to build the ship piece by piece and paint it, so when you have a completed model, get all the screen shots you need before closing the program, or you'll end up making the ship all over again. [Edit - upon closer inspection, the description says "Light and Pod functions, gun operation, automatic progress save" so evidently there is more to it than I've seen so far.] Thanks to the people of thecolony-matrixonline.com for still hosting this 38.5MB file (unzips to 45.3 MB)  There is only one other place on the web outside thecolony still hosting it after it was removed from the official site.

http://www.thecolony-matrixonline.com/modelkit.htm

To see a preview of what the program is like, check the original site, though the final download link is now invalid (just download it from thecolony, above)

Original official Matrix content: http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.c...l_builder2.html

Sounds good.

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Oooh, I remember this. Good stuff.

No use for me, as my ship's a bit... odd, but nevertheless a good find.

After finding that the virtual Neb had been removed from the official Matrix site I did some more digging.  I'm sorry to report that, while we weren't paying attention, WB pulled all the large files from the official Matrix site. www.thematrix.com still has a lot of still-photo and text content, but all the quicktime VR seems to be gone.  The trailers are there, at least the few I tried.  It's likely that the site will shut down by the end of 2009 though there is no telling what WB will do.  My advice is, if there is any content there that you'll want to savor in your old age, make your time/media-shift of it now, fair use patriots.

The QuickTime VR stuff got absorbed into the Zion Archive. The whole thing has a VR component.

EndlessVoid wrote:

The QuickTime VR stuff got absorbed into the Zion Archive. The whole thing has a VR component.

   Most of the Quicktime stuff in the Zion Archive doesn't work anymore, at least from my point of view.

The official Matrix website is being eaten away, largest files first.  Archivists and historians... get what you can while you can - now.