[AdmiralRalwood]

I just sent another $30 to HLP. Sadly, I forgot to mark it as for this. If the admins need any info from me to identify it, let me know.

I was under the impression that if you just go to his Kickstarter profile (Click his name under his picture right side on the project's page) and click 'contact me' you can send the message anytime. Is what I did for both my donations as I couldn't work out how to send it straight afterwards.

I think he meant he donated it via HLP's Paypal.

[CommanderDJ]

I just sent another $30 to HLP. Sadly, I forgot to mark it as for this. If the admins need any info from me to identify it, let me know.

I was under the impression that if you just go to his Kickstarter profile (Click his name under his picture right side on the project's page) and click 'contact me' you can send the message anytime. Is what I did for both my donations as I couldn't work out how to send it straight afterwards.

I think he meant he donated it via HLP's Paypal.

Yeah, this.

[Herra Tohtori]

Contributed $25 on Kickstarter and sent a message identifying it as part of HLP pledge.

[Kagetsuki]

Running total is $1,890.30. Again if you forgot to mark your pledge as HLP go ahead and contact me now. I won't respond to every message but if you want confirmation I added your pledge feel free to ask. Also if you have increased your pledge after contacting me with "HLP" I will not have noticed your increase - please message me if you have increased your pledge after contacting me initially.

Thanks everyone!

[headdie]

just stuck another $10 into the pot via kickstarted and messaged regarding it

[CKid]

Changed my pledge from $100 to $200. Sent a message informing Kagetsuki of my new pledge.

[Sandwich]

I'll be capable of covering any of the PayPal "Tax" if necessary, in addition to supplying my own amount from my paycheck this Friday (which will bring it in the day before cut-off)

If that's what you want to do, ok - I was just gonna cover the PayPal fees with the funds from HLP's PayPal money.

Sandwich: Since the funding submission looks to close on Kickstarter on Sunday Sep 8, 21:01 EDT, we should make our cut-off 12 hours ( 9:01 AM) before that for a conglomerate HLP donation, then I can check with Rei by Noon EDT to get what our total sum is and we'll see if we're short or not and then I can swing (depending on the gap, if it's under $400 USD then that'll be easy) in order to make the goal happen. Bare minimum, I'm throwing in $200 USD in addition to balancing the PayPal for the "Taxation" that took place to make sure the amount we send matches what was "intended" to be delivered to the project.

The timing seems ok to me; 9:01am EDT makes it mid-afternoon or so Sunday for me, which is fine.

You've seen the tally doc I shared with you? We're up to $348.93 in the PayPal (before fees).

[Zacam]

That puts us at roughly $2,239.23 as of the latest post from you Sandwich and Rei, and before any other updates.

So we're seemingly on perfect track then to hit that aspired goal. Awesome.

[Kagetsuki]

My kickstarter total still comes out to $2,124.30 but I have a feeling I missed someone or someone didn't tell me on kickstarter that they pledged. Even at this total adding in the paypal amount basically brings us to 2.5k. In otherwords *STOP* contributing through kickstarter. We'll double check our numbers and anything over 2.5k from the paypal account I say HLP uses internally.

Thanks HLP! You'll be seeing me around for implementation as soon as we have the base libraries and tools from the project out

[Goober5000]

In otherwords *STOP* contributing through kickstarter.

Wait, you're turning down more money?

[Lorric]

In otherwords *STOP* contributing through kickstarter.

Wait, you're turning down more money?

He is very nice.

[Zacam]

I'll still be doing my own contribution. If we go over the necessary amount for the intended support, that doesn't bother me much, it just means another potential Stretch goal (Java! w00t!) reached or something. Especially since I know we have more than a few GIMP users.

[Black Wolf]

GIMP has been removed from the stretch goals, alas.

That said, well done HLP! We got there.

[headdie]

Well done everyone this is an awesome feat for the community to achieve!

I am looking to put a mention on the reddit freespace page regarding this but I just know someone will ask what it means for the game engine so could someone in the SCP spell out to me in basic terms:

A: what it would replace/supplement that is in place now?
B: what desired features/capabilities would be possible now?

[Sandwich]

That said, well done HLP! We got there.

Indeed, great work people! If only we had known that the FreeSpace license could have been bought for 7.5k...!

[The E]

A: what it would replace/supplement that is in place now?

Replace? Nothing. Supplement? All the ani playback, all the commandbriefs and heads and stuff.

B: what desired features/capabilities would be possible now?

-Full color CB anis/com heads
-Easier content creation without having to go through anibuilder
-Easier content organization by reducing the need for one file for each animation frame

There are also some improvements that may be possible with regards to bmpman slots, but that's something we'll need to work out when it comes to implementation.

[headdie]

Cool, thanks for that

[Sandwich]

A: what it would replace/supplement that is in place now?

Replace? Nothing. Supplement? All the ani playback, all the commandbriefs and heads and stuff.

Layman's question - are there reasons why we don't simply use an open video codec such as Ogg Vorbis for video-type content?

[The E]

We're already using ogg vorbis for regular movies; it's just that the movie player framework we got right now isn't set up to render to anything other than a fullscreen surface; that's something we'll eventually get to.
For now, fitting in something like apng in is easier.

[Trivial Psychic]

Given the apparent highly anticipated nature of this feature, if it comes "soon" as indicated in the highlight post, I expect that we could see a more rapid 3.7.1 release in order to make it into an official release as soon as possible.