[terran_emperor]

My thoughs exactly can't wait for the finished version...

Now i just need to think of some music for VA's Endgame sequence

Hey VA...where you at now?

[IceyJones]

im really looking forward to VA´s movie......

i think his look meets the original cutscenes much better and his fx are more than stunning!!! not comperable to my fast shot 

[terran_emperor]

I wouldn't say that. I happen to think your screenies and the test avi look brilliant...

LOL! the amusing thing is, when i started this topic, i never exppected it would get this far...
It great to see 2 great cutscenes animators come out of the HLP station ductwork...glad you didn't run into Carl

[IceyJones]

tweaked vasuda a little bit....planet is final. think its a nice desert world....

[IceyJones]

btw: the planet texture is from a HL-thread. do not find it again, but i liked this texture and thought its worth for being vasuda 

[jr2]

@ IceyJones & maybe VA:  Get MediaCoder.  (Open Source)  EDIT: Oh, yes, and jaw x 10 

EDIT2: Prolly might want to get the extra codec packs for MC, too: here.  Err.. dang, I guess OGM is only supported as a source??  O.o

[Vasudan Admiral]

I've now gotten these ships into blender with shine, glow and normal maps: (Fenris, Basilisk, Dragon, Hercules, Manticore, Scorpion, Thoth, Ulysses and Ursa)


And though it still needs a bit of tweaking, I've settled on a look for the thrusters too: (it's animated and will go all flame like and everything. )


Again they're not the best quality, but for something like this where they're moving so fast, and won't have any close up on them for more than a few seconds, I reckon it'll be ok.

[IceyJones]

hi VA

for massive action shots these should be okay. i like to put these low-res ships into particle emitters and let them swirl around in the scene just to fill it up

the fenris could be tweaked. just use the normal texture as diffusion map and tweak this with a filter shader. i suppose that blender also has this.

the thrusters are perfect i think. just add some additional glare-fx to it when seen from behind. i mean this pulsating reflectionlike-ring, seen in all cutscenes.....

[IceyJones]

btw:
i urgently need a list of all ships and their sizes have not fould anything about it 

[Vidmaster]

just one thing: if you actually get this additional cutscene stuff done, you will be THE MAN ! 

This just looks absolutly amazing 

[terran_emperor]

Icey, try this site Tech Freespace

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/techfs/index.shtml

It has the lengths for every canon ship except cargo and setry Guns

[IceyJones]

thanks a lot....

at the moment it doesnt matter what size my lucy has, but in the next takes i need to mix it up with other ships....

EDIT:
as i have to convert minimum two ships this evening to fill up my bombardment-scene, it would be helpful to get a list of all spacecraft names, linked to their media-VP name. it is very hard to guess, which pof is which ship...

thanks again and sorry for my persistent asking

[Goober5000]

Hmm.  Is there some sort of easter egg going on here?  That looks like a Lego brick in the screenshot...

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[IceyJones]

noooooo

there you can connect your plug to charge the batteries 

[Turambar]

i had at one point done higher rez textures for the dragon, but since lost them.  i think micropsycho has them somewhere if he is still alive.



i can re-do them if needed.  finals end friday, post-finals drinking ends sunday, so i should be available then.

[IceyJones]

would be great of course 

[colecampbell666]

VA and Icey, you guys know that awesome engine glows were released a while back? I searched high and low and couldn't find them, though. (not the Einstein909 ones, I think they were Bobboau's)

[terran_emperor]

how long ago were they released, cos i might have them

[IceyJones]

okay guys.....the complete bardment scene is coded and ready 4 rendering....i also begun to cut the first half of the vid and did some first sound-work.

i do not know if everthing is rightly done, as i still not have the shiplist incl. sounds etc.....so everything is a guess soundwise.....

tomorrow the last 1000 frames will render....maybe i finish this before x-mas 

total time will be something around 2 minutes

br,
icey

[Vasudan Admiral]

VA and Icey, you guys know that awesome engine glows were released a while back? I searched high and low and couldn't find them, though. (not the Einstein909 ones, I think they were Bobboau's)

You wouldn't happen to mean the ones I made on the right? (Eww!)


Or these?


Apart from the yellow glows by Einstein909, I'm not aware of any other glows made recently.

As for the Lego brick on the fenris, lol but no. That's been on there forever.

IceyJones: I'll package those fighters and the Fenris up tonight for you.

Turambar: That'd be cool, but for this cutscene it's not really nessecary for this particular cutscene. The ingame dragon and future HTL one might benefit a lot from it though.