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Thanks for all of the recent follows and support! You may of noticed all has been silent here for some time, but we are currently looking at ways to bring back and expand this award winning project by getting more W.A.S.P. fans, artists, and software developers on board.

A little history for those wanting to know!
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W.A.S.P. Deviations opened on deviantART.com in 2009 to great feedback and huge interest worldwide. It brought W.A.S.P. art to the masses in the form of tattoos (which many had kept to themselves beforehand), drawings, paintings, digital art and much more. In the main active months of working on W.A.S.P. Deviations we quickly received 100's of submissions worldwide and thousands of page views from all corners of the globe.

In 2010 the project went virtual with a 3D Virtual Art Gallery developed by Kevin Curtis which won 'Best Technical Dissertation' award in 2011 at The University of Northampton, England, UK. To have a piece of software to demonstrate their fans dedication and a virtual art gallery to its name this begun a series of firsts for a hard rock band....or any band ever!

Quickly news spread to major music and technology publications and websites worldwide gaining the project huge acclaim.

Fast forward to now 2014....we are looking to grow this into an even bigger beast than it was before. 

If you're a W.A.S.P. fan, artist, or developer who wants to get involved email: waspdeviations@gmail.com With your thoughts, ideas, questions etc.

Cheers!

-Kevin Curtis
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Greetings All! Thanks for your continued support!
The artwork submissions have been fantastic and the number of you who have taken part so far in this project has been mind blowing for what was initially a small university project!  

Some updated stats!

- Over 1000 artwork submissions!
- Over 3000 Downloads of the beta software in 2011!
- 5,000+ Downloads of W.A.S.P. Deviations since the first beta run!
- 25,000 page views here on Deviant Art.
- Almost 650 likes on the Facebook page @ www.facebook.com/W.A.S.P.Devia…

Since 2011 W.A.S.P. Deviations nothing short of officially kicked started the new trend of sharing your W.A.S.P. Tattoos & Artwork online!


So without further ado! A quick heads up on what you've all been waiting for! A major new update is inbound for W.A.S.P. Deviations! The latest download links will be provided shortly!

W.A.S.P. Deviations Virtual Gallery v1.2 incudes:

- Xbox 360 Controller Support
- Improved Texture Loading
- Improved Lighting
- Improved Performance across multiple versions of Windows.
- Extra Rooms Added! Plus a hidden 'secret' for W.A.S.P. fans to discover.... 
- More artwork on display!
- With the recent announcement of DirectX 12 W.A.S.P. Deviations is currently also looking to move from OpenGL to DirectX. Some ground work has already been done for this possibility! 

Exciting things ahead you could say!

Due to other projects the success of W.A.S.P. Deviations is overwhelming so we are looking for team members to help carry the torch so to speak!
To enquire email : waspdeviations@gmail.com for more information!


Thanks again for the tremendous amount of support!


- The W.A.S.P. Deviations Team
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Kevin Curtis (Developer): "Thanks to everyone who downloaded and helped make the W.A.S.P. Deviations Virtual Gallery Project a huge success via the beta testing and questionnaire responses! Rather awesomely I had over 3,000 downloads of my W.A.S.P. Virtual Gallery Dissertation Project in only its small limited beta test run. The project went on gain me a 'First Class Honours' at Northampton University in England on my course BSc Computing (Graphics & Visualisation) and also won 'Best Technology Dissertation 2011' which it was awarded in October!
Seriously though you can stop replying to the feedback questionnaire now. xD

P.S Keep your eyes peeled for a new update coming soon with various fixes.
A detailed list of fixes and improvements will be available soon as well as new download links. (The previous megaupload links no longer work due to the host site being closed.)
Meanwhile anyone wanting to try the previous beta email us at: waspdeviations@gmail.com with the title 'Beta v0.1 Request' and the old beta version will be provided to you."
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The latest version of the W.A.S.P. Deviations Virtual Gallery for Windows can be downloaded from here: www.megaupload.com/?d=Y2IQZE34

This is not the next release but contains minor performance enhancements and refinements to the code. We are aiming for an end of October release of Beta v0.2 which should include:

ϟ Improvements to movement technique.
ϟ Introduction of lighting system.
ϟ Interaction with objects.
ϟ Improved textures.
ϟ Expansion to the gallery floor area allowing for more artwork to be shown.

Full details will be annnounced soon!

Want to keep up with W.A.S.P. Deviations on Facebook? Visit us at -> www.facebook.com/W.A.S.P.Devia…
The virtual gallery has been created for YOU the W.A.S.P. fans and hellions worldwide. Have suggestions for a future update? Have feedback? Let us know @ waspdeviations@hotmail.co.uk we'd love to hear it!

Instructions:
1. Unzip file using winrar or alternative software.
2. Open 'Release' folder.
3. Run the virtualgallery.exe application file.

Any issues please report them to the email address above.

Enjoy!

-W.A.S.P. Deviations Team
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Greetings W.A.S.P. fans!

We are pleased to announced that the W.A.S.P. Deviations Virtual Art Gallery Beta (v0.1) is now LIVE and ready to download.

Download HERE - > www.megaupload.com/?d=FVHOEZ49

The zip file contains:

- W.A.S.P. Deviations Virtual Art Gallery Beta (v0.1)
- Read Me/Guide (IMPORTANT: Read this first!)
- Questionnaire. (Please fill this in and return to waspdeviations@hotmail.co.uk as soon as possible)


Bare in mind this demo is a very small representation of the virtual gallery in an early state.
Additional features and controls will be added in the next beta release!! Look out for the first full release of the W.A.S.P. Deviations Virtual Gallery
featuring multiple floors, dynamic lighting, enhanced controls/sound & 100's of pieces of W.A.S.P. Art from around the world -- coming this fall!


A special thanks to all of the competition participants. (The entries will be going through a voting process and the winners announced in May.)
& thankyou for taking part in the beta test! We hope you enjoy it!!

Without you the W.A.S.P. fans worldwide this would not be possible!!
- W.A.S.P. Deviations Team


DISCLAIMER: THIS EARLY BETA VERSION IS NOT AN INDICATION OF THE FINAL
PRODUCTS QUALITY.THIS PRODUCT IS NOT TO BE REDISTRIBUTED IN ANY FORM.

If any technical support is required please email waspdeviations@hotmail.co.uk
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