To create a beautiful and functional virtual Oregon Country Fair in the Clouds 3D Experience that reflects the magic of the Fair.
We are thrilled that you are interested in becoming part of the first ever Virtual OCF in the Clouds!
OCF in the Clouds is just one of three ways that patrons can experience the Fair this year. OCF in the Clouds 3D Experience (the m8rix) is the most interactive one.
As a juried Crafter with either OCF or Saturday Market, you are pre-approved to set up your very own Booth in the Clouds! This can take as little or as much effort as you want to put into it. It's a "choose your own adventure" opportunity! 🙂
You can put just as much time and energy into Fair in the Clouds as you want to.
On the easy end of the spectrum, you can just walk up to your booth in the m8rix, add a link to your website or etsy store, and then put up a few pictures of your wares.
On the more involved end, you can create your very own Room, connected to the m8rix. In your own room, you can add as much content as you want! Lots of photos, as well as video or audio files if you have them, and even 3D models, either of your booth or your products, if you feel up to taking that on.
However, the thing to remember is that space is limited! This is because every single photo, video, or 3D model in a room makes it slower for everybody who tries to enter that room. And nobody likes to wait! This is why we will need to limit how much content each booth holder can put into the main public m8rix rooms, and we will need to ask people with high content demands to make their own rooms.
We are discovering that people are using images with too high a resolution. We all need to use smaller images or this thing is going to be too slow to load. Use any photo program, like PhotoShop or GIMP, amd save your photo as {myphotosmall}. jpg find “scale image” In there make sure your maximum size it no more than 1600x1200 pixels do the resolution for both x and y at 72 pixels.
Then click “scale” [that is what it is in most programs]
Also, shoot for 200K or less, save images as .jpg, not .png unless you need to use transparency (making part of the image invisible, so you can see through it.)
For now, we just hope you will take a moment to walk the m8rix and pick out where you would like to have your booth. Later, when you know how to pin a picture or an object in an empty booth, that will let others know that that booth is claimed. We show you how to pin/decorate your booth in the Decorating Tutorial (not yet completed).
There will be 2 booth decorating meetings a week at Dragon Meadow in the Clouds from now until Fair. If you are unable to attend these meetings, please reach out to us, we will do everything we can to accommodate you.
Fair in the Clouds is not an exact replica of the Eight: While we used real world LIDAR scans to create the forest canopy, the map of the trails is not completely accurate, and we do not have a 1:1 mapping of booths on the Eight to booths in the m8rix. There was very little time to create this whole thing, so we hope you will just set yourself up somewhere, have fun, and don't worry too much about precise realism.