Author Topic: The Babylon Project DVD v2 planning (Read 2640 times)

Vidmaster · **on:** May 21, 2009, 06:17:59 am

Maybe we should update this DVD at some point in the future post Zathras.

FUBAR-BDHR · **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2009, 01:37:11 pm

Hip has already contacted me about doing a new campaign pack and I suggested a DVD 2.0 as well at that time. Of course all this is pending release of 3.6.10 and Zathras and hopefully a couple more campaigns.

Vidmaster · **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2009, 02:27:59 pm

well, Hunters, updated Janus, updated Operations and maybe Battle at... should be sufficient?

hip63 · **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2009, 08:50:09 am

Speaking of TBP DVD 2.0, the current menu system on the DVD is quite "epic" but in retrospect, it my be a bit overkill plus it may not work smoothly on older systems.

Do you guys think I should tone it down to something a little simplier or do you guys still like the "Big Show"?

hip63

The E · **Reply #4 on:** May 24, 2009, 08:56:00 am

My recommendation: Keep it simple. Remove the fullscreen thing. Remove the sounds. And the custom pointer. Don't know about old systems, but on new ones, it just looks awful in my opinion.

[rant]Why? Because to me, it all seems so bloody 90s. I do not like being surprised by soundeffects playing at 100% Volume. I do not like having to wait several seconds for it to go through all the fade-ins and fade-outs.[/rant]

hip63 · **Reply #5 on:** May 24, 2009, 09:34:01 am

The Music stays. Period. (at least during the main install, it just goes so well with the slides, but the menu music may go.)

However I can do something about the volume with the new software I have available to me now. And I'm flexible on the other items you mentioned but please, keep the rants out. I spent about 100 hours designing and redesigning the last one, so I can do with out the rants please.

But yes, I'm thinking simplier, more streamlined (and yes faster) but still be TBP DVD.

The last was kinda like a big Earth Force Battleship or something but now I'm thinking more Whitestar

hip63

Vidmaster · **Reply #6 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:20:36 pm

hey, it's hip!

FUBAR-BDHR · **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2009, 01:24:40 pm

Don't suppose you have any way of making it multi platform?

hip63 · **Reply #8 on:** May 24, 2009, 04:13:06 pm

adding the the files for other platforms is no problem, however I don't know if the DVD itself works on other platforms though...

hip63

FUBAR-BDHR · **Reply #9 on:** May 24, 2009, 04:24:06 pm

Well if we can't do a Linux and Mac installer then we need something for those platforms to be able to at least be able to extract the files to a directory.

Another question. How hard would it be to make a separate updater from DVD 1 to DVD 2? That way it's a smaller download for people that already have the DVD?

hip63 · **Reply #10 on:** May 24, 2009, 04:44:02 pm

I was already thinking the same thing

I don't forsee a problem with doing that.

hip63

FUBAR-BDHR · **Reply #11 on:** May 24, 2009, 05:11:04 pm

Maybe we should go with 2.x for the campaign pack to try to get it back in line with the DVD number. So in the future when DVD 3 comes out campaign pack 3 will match what's in it. Any campaign packs released between DVD versions will just be a revision.

So right now we are at DVD 1.0 and CP 2.0 we should go to:

DVD 2.0 CP say 2.5
Next CP would be 2.6 etc
DVD 3.0 comes out CP goes to 3.0

Vidmaster · **Reply #12 on:** May 25, 2009, 04:10:24 am

disliking that, makes things even more complex.

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