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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
@ lars
i think you mix up there shomething. phong shading has nothing to do with anisotropic mapping:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_shading

it describes how to interpolate specular highlights over polygon-edges so that they look round....unfortunately it can happen that real reflections are not smoothed so you can have sharp edges like on the low-poly-lucy in the shot where the scorpions are starting, below the superlaser. i tried to put lucy into a hypernurb, but the model does not allow that. i got poly-salat......
ever tryed to go to functions -> optimise points? works quite nicely with FS2 ships.
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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
optimizing points is just for combining points if you have combines independent parts of a model to one part and points does not fit 100% together. then they are merged.....

regarding the city shape, we do not have any reference for vasudan style of buildings ;) you always have to keep in mind, that a building must be effective and the most effective shape for a building is not round....its like a cube. i think there are no big defferences in the architectural shape from this distance. btw: what we see is only the city centre with the highest buildings.....the camera looks above a small "hill" so you only see the highest.... ;)

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Yeah, I doubt that method of conversion will work.  It certainly won't work in FSO.  What you need to do is compress the original cutscene to OGG format.  This means the video has to be OGG Theora and the audio has to be OGG Vorbis.

hi goo

i tried to convert from the original, uncompressed file with vlc-player to theo and vorbis in an ogg-container. conversion was done nice, but fs2 is still not playing the movie. same error message....avi still works....

strange everything....

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Ancients4 currently comes before sm3-01a, since that's when Vasuda is destroyed.  If IceyJones's cutscene is added, then Ancients4 should come before sm2-10a (when the Galatea is destroyed) and Vasuda should come before sm3-01a.

Thanks Goober.

Changes made. Grab the updated vp from my original post: here



OTOH IceyJones:
  • Do not hesitate to pick the vp and make it yours so you can make a "complete" release. If you build a whole vp remember that vasuda.ogg should go in data\movies\.
  • Please convert your cutscene to ogg ASAP. Avi support is going to be dropped in future FS2_open builds. And reconverting to ogg from an already compressed avi is just a bad idea. I suppose we will have much better quality if you compress it from your original uncompressed video file. Try ffmpeg2theora utility.
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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
i will convert is asap of course. first of all i will make the slight changes in the movie itself. nevertheless i have the above mentioned problem.....:(
maybe i can upload the uncompressed video somewhere so that a pro in converting to ogg could do it......?! but it is 3,8 GB big  :wtf:

goober will be happy to hear that i canned one city shot and put them to the first where the ships are fleeing. so its one longer scene.
furthermore i play the long strafing along lucy slower, so that there are no more framedroppes on my PC.....they are just gone now :)

btw: i planned to make some kind of detail shot of vasudans fleeing from the city to the transports but canned it as there is no vasudan-mesh available......but now i saw THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7lL3ymasbA&feature=related

i contacted the author....maybe i get a mesh....lets see

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Heh, AFAIK that's a secret video thing made by [v] and put on the silent threat discs along with a few other oddities. So it's basically the original vasudan mesh rather than one made by any FS fan. :(

Bobboau did make a complete and released vasudan mesh a long while back, but it was quite low poly from what I can remember. Beyond the one Goob linked to, I've only seen a low poly pilot version Aldo made.
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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
damn

but a low poly would work!....i want to show a massive stream of refugies trying to catch a transport.....

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
doesnt work for me, cant see it nor can i download it.
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hi goo
:wtf: Goo? I'm telling you. Calling Goober with names like that is a source of much misery and pain.
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14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
hi goo
:wtf: Goo? I'm telling you. Calling Goober with names like that is a source of much misery and pain.

I was going to say.... at least I had a sort of reason for calling him Gooby... (note that I don't anymore).

 

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hello all, especially the admins

as it seems that there is some confusion regarding codecs and so on, it would be great if the admins could define a "standard" for cutscenes. means:

- video codec, vid format and bitrate
- audi codec, bitrate

as well as naming freeware-tools incl. description how to convert uncompressed original files.

would help a lot to avoid actual confusion and conflicts. i.e. my created ogg files have audio problems (overamplifying)...

furthermore i still have no answer on my ogg-implementing problems in fs. they are just not playing!

thanks
icey

  

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Is there a mirror for this? I get an error saying only one connection is allowed. Even though I'm only trying to download one copy.
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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Is there a mirror for this? I get an error saying only one connection is allowed. Even though I'm only trying to download one copy.

Filefront just has a retarded server. :doubt:
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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Happy birthday IceyJones!
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thanks  :D
again another year over..... :rolleyes:

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Great vid!!! You have got to share your secret  ;)

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
optimizing points is just for combining points if you have combines independent parts of a model to one part and points does not fit 100% together. then they are merged.....
are you sure? it worked for me, since all the faces in models when they're converted from pof to any other 3D format are completely disconnected. optimise points worked with me always. could you just send the model to [email protected] ?

i wanna see if its something else than that.

as for other objects on the ship... sured doesnt do that for me. after booleans, optimise points just ****s it up even more. sad, sad.
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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
Happy birthday IceyJones!

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XD  j/k  Happy Birthday, Icey!!  :)

 

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Re: Vasuda-Toasting-Cutscene / FINAL-Release
OTOH IceyJones:
  • Do not hesitate to pick the vp and make it yours so you can make a "complete" release. If you build a whole vp remember that vasuda.ogg should go in data\movies\.
  • Please convert your cutscene to ogg ASAP. Avi support is going to be dropped in future FS2_open builds. And reconverting to ogg from an already compressed avi is just a bad idea. I suppose we will have much better quality if you compress it from your original uncompressed video file. Try ffmpeg2theora utility.

A quote to myself  :lol:

Using your avi release as a excuse I'm replaying FS1 campaign and I can confirm that avi support HAS BEEN ALREADY DROPPED in 3.6.10 beta builds (at least Taylor's Xt1207). So avi isn't a valid format any more.


Ah, and even a bit late Happy Birthday
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