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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Silent Warrior on August 19, 2004, 12:49:48 am

Title: Coolness incarnate? (3D-briefing)
Post by: Silent Warrior on August 19, 2004, 12:49:48 am

Wouldn't be a big ownage-factor if we could script the briefings as a separate .fs2? So instead of that map-screen, we could have a mission, tagged as without briefing nor debriefing, AI-controlled Alpha 1, invulnerable and set to be ignored by everyone, and a whooooooole lotta waypoints. The HUD would be a problem, unless we can have voice-acting - toggle-hud makes the message-text go away, but a voice-file will apparently play.
This will sort of obviously mean that the briefing in the actual mission-fs2 will have to be non-existant. And loading-time would take away some of the wow-factor, unless it can be dramatically reduced somehow...

What about it?

Title: Coolness incarnate? (3D-briefing)
Post by: Fury on August 19, 2004, 12:54:48 am

It sounds cool but that's about it. In my opinion it isn't practical.

Title: Coolness incarnate? (3D-briefing)
Post by: jdjtcagle on August 20, 2004, 05:37:06 pm

:lol:

I'm sorry, but it's not going to happen. :)

Title: Coolness incarnate? (3D-briefing)
Post by: Kie99 on August 26, 2004, 02:45:28 pm

That would be cool :D

Title: Coolness incarnate? (3D-briefing)
Post by: Ace Pace on August 27, 2004, 07:18:14 am

I was wondering about something similer, alot of the time, I (maybe more people) in tense missions, want to take a second and look at it from a 3D view, or even just a 2D plot map (I.E X-wing map), is this feasible?

Title: Coolness incarnate? (3D-briefing)
Post by: Silent Warrior on August 28, 2004, 07:05:41 am

Ace Pace: Well, I believe Kazan was pondering a WC-style Nav-map. Not quite the same thing, but related.

Fury and... that other d00d: Certainly impractical (loading times), and it would be just about as much trouble as making a whole new mission on its own (duh :) )... Well, I suppose we can leave that to cutscene-missions instead of proper briefings.

Title: Coolness incarnate? (3D-briefing)
Post by: Ace on September 01, 2004, 02:42:40 am

Considering what can be done with the current briefings, replacing the 2d icons with 3d wireframes would do the trick.

Really though this should be in the modding or SCP forum.