[Admiral Nelson]

Note that the Orion nameplates won't work if you have the beta MediaVps installed.  The filename is changing, and that change will have to be mirrored in every mission featuring an Orion.  I have not done this yet, since the MediaVPs aren't final, and I don't to update filenames more than once.

[MP-Ryan]

Note that the Orion nameplates won't work if you have the beta MediaVps installed.  The filename is changing, and that change will have to be mirrored in every mission featuring an Orion.  I have not done this yet, since the MediaVPs aren't final, and I don't to update filenames more than once.

In that case, I'm only adjusting the one mission with the missing nameplate.

[blowfish]

Couldn't you do the replacement for both textures?  You would get a warning somewhere, but it wouldn't crash the game.

[MP-Ryan]

Mobius or Mustang, can you post the cutscene?

[Mobius]

It's up to Mustang as I have INFA and other FSCRP campaigns in my to-do list...

Voice acting is ok, why wouldn't we wait for the voice files?

[MP-Ryan]

It's up to Mustang as I have INFA and other FSCRP campaigns in my to-do list...

Voice acting is ok, why wouldn't we wait for the voice files?

Are they going to be done in the next six months?

[Tinman]

It's up to Mustang as I have INFA and other FSCRP campaigns in my to-do list...

Voice acting is ok, why wouldn't we wait for the voice files?

Are they going to be done in the next six months?

i hope so, schools over in a few days and then the voice actors will do their work, so - hopefully - 90% will be done until mid-August, but the last 10% are always the hardest and if voice acting is not ready in December I will vote for a pre-release without voice files

[Mobius]

Blaise Russel's not active, should we recruit more people to fill the missing roles?

[CaptJosh]

I'd like to voice act, but I need to find a dynamic microphone first. Condenser mics, which basically is any cheap computer microphone, and a lot of the more pricey ones as well, pick up to much ambient noise.

[Mustang19]

Mobius or Mustang, can you post the cutscene?

I don't know if this is the latest, but I found it on my hard drive.

Hosted to mediafire.

[Mobius]

Hello guys!

I have been playing around with show-subtitle and images...I think we can combine these two effects to boost the cutscene. Creating an image with a black background and writing text on it should be enough to get a nice cutcene effect ready to use.

When using show-subtitle, go for <image name> instead of writing a text.

[blowfish]

A little note about show-subtitle and images (you may already know this), is that if the image has no alpha channel, it is displayed with additive blending (eg. darker colors are more transparent).  If the image has an alpha channel, it is just displayed.  Just thought I'd point this out.

[Mobius]

Forgive my ignorance but I'd like to know more about this...

My test images are using a black background, is it good?

[blowfish]

If they have no alpha channel, then its fine.  The problem only arises when you have an image with a black background and an alpha channel.

[Mobius]

What's an alpha channel? Is it something you can set/change with Photoshop?

[blowfish]

It is.  It sets the transparency of the image.  What format are you saving as?

[Mobius]

Photoshop file for now. I want to use images like in JAD("The End", "To Be Continued..."). How do I make the black bg transparent?

[blowfish]

You have a choice.  You can go the alpha channel route or the no alpha channel route.  If you want no alpha channels, make the background black and save as 24 bit tga, jpeg, or DDS with no alpha (not sure how).  Any color but solid white will be partially transparent, however.  If you want to go the alpha channel route, delete the black background (make sure your photoshop file has a transparent background (you should see that checkerboard), and save as 32 bit tga or DDS with alpha.  This will yield slightly larger files, however.  Oh, and when I say save, I mean when you export for use in-game (probably keep the PSD files since they can be edited).

[Mobius]

Where do I set/check the alpha value in PS? I'll go for the first option since I had to modify an imported pic...

What does PS set by default?

[blowfish]

So you want to go the alpha channel route?  Well, when you create a new photoshop file, you should get an option for transparent background.  Select it.  You can create text in ps pretty easily, but if you need to use imported picts, copy the contents into a new file and use the magic wand tool to select and delete the background.