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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kazan on August 03, 2001, 09:05:00 pm

Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 03, 2001, 09:05:00 pm
Look what I did  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
 http://alliance.sourceforge.net/files/BeamFight.avi (//"http://alliance.sourceforge.net/files/BeamFight.avi")

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Alikchi on August 03, 2001, 09:10:00 pm
That's the music from..Gladiator, right?
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 03, 2001, 09:11:00 pm
yes
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Sandwich on August 03, 2001, 09:19:00 pm
Downloading...  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Nico on August 04, 2001, 07:05:00 am
 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
Downloading...   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)


Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Setekh on August 04, 2001, 07:16:00 am
 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
Downloading...   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Top Gun on August 04, 2001, 07:37:00 am
 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
Downloading...

Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Sandwich on August 04, 2001, 09:16:00 am
Where's that look around suspiciously smiley when I need it?!?  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Slanker on August 04, 2001, 09:53:00 am
 
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Originally posted by sandwich:
Downloading...    (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)


[Edit: done.
It looks pretty basic to me. What about having some non-linear fly paths and some fighters/bombers swarming around? If you have some extra time, add some camera-movement.]

[This message has been edited by Slanker (edited 08-04-2001).]
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 04, 2001, 09:58:00 am
it was _just_ a test
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: NeoHunter on August 04, 2001, 10:24:00 am
Downloading now.......

Next time, Kazan, please indicate the file size of the video clip. Sometimes, I need to know how long its going to take to download just by looking at the file size.

Anyway, should be quite interesting. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: NeoHunter on August 04, 2001, 11:13:00 am
Okay. I've watched the entire movie clip. Not bad. But you could try to make the two ships move a bit more than just passing each other......

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: DragonClaw on August 04, 2001, 11:26:00 am
  took me 15 seconds to d/l   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)

   Good... I wish I could make animations like that..

   The Shivan beam kinda looks a little plain... shouldn't it be bigger and have a more noticable white center?  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)


   Explosions should be added as well, though I realize this is just a test, in that case GREAT JOB!

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 04, 2001, 11:41:00 am
I dunno how to do good explosions yet with the tools i have
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: NeoHunter on August 04, 2001, 12:16:00 pm
Maybe you could try emailing the people who created the animation for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: morris13 on August 04, 2001, 12:21:00 pm
hrmm... it says i don't have the right decompressor =(
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 04, 2001, 12:22:00 pm
 www.divx.com ("http://www.divx.com")

*rolleyes*
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: NeoHunter on August 04, 2001, 12:34:00 pm
So that's why I could see it. I thought it didn't need DivX. I didn't even realize I had DivX installed.

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 04, 2001, 06:55:00 pm
pretty much every avi i do is in divx
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: morris13 on August 04, 2001, 09:20:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Kazan:
www.divx.com ("http://www.divx.com")

*rolleyes*

Well, the funny thing is that I DO have the DIVX decompressors, I watch DIVX movies all the time, so it seemed strange to me to get that error message.
*rolleyes*
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 04, 2001, 09:23:00 pm
you prolly have DivX3

i have DivX4
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Martinus on August 04, 2001, 09:35:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Kazan:
www.divx.com ("http://www.divx.com")

*rolleyes*

It's bad practise to presume that everyone knows this Kazan, a lot of ppl are using the plugin for mediaplayer which is bloody unhelpful when it can't read certain filetypes.

Everyone should try to give as much info as possible when releasing this kind of thing, there's a good reason why "idiots guide to" books sell so well  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 04, 2001, 09:39:00 pm
I was rolling my eyes because i've never released a video in anything other than DivX
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: ZylonBane on August 05, 2001, 02:34:00 pm
And of course, everyone has all the habits of Mighty Kazan fully memorized.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/rolleyes.gif)

As for the video... I got an amazing sense of deja vu from it... I'm sure I've seen something just like that somewhere else before... but where? Hmmmm.... Oh.... yeah!

The Freespace 2 Screensaver.
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Vertigo1 on August 05, 2001, 02:45:00 pm
Kazan: Just a suggestion, but next time could you zip it down for those of us that don't have broadband?

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 05, 2001, 03:13:00 pm
It's already compressed foo


Zylone - that was completely 3D .. i just didn't fine tune it... shrike wanted a beamfight so i tossed one togeather
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Vertigo1 on August 05, 2001, 10:54:00 pm
Just watched the movie, and noticed a couple of things:

1. The beams don't fade.  They just disappear immediately.

2. The tip of the green beams can be seen just past the Ravana on two occasions.  At 13 seconds, and 24 seconds.

3. No engine glows!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

Suggestions:  Have up-close views of the ships firing!  You can use three cameras to do this.  One camera focuses on the Hecate, one on the Ravana, and one somewhere close enough to see the two ships fight.  You can do this using VPost in 3dsmax. (assuming thats what you use)  If you want, get with me sometime on ICQ and I'll show you what I mean in detail.  However, i'm afraid that I'm gonna have to cut this post short due to another damned thunderstorm.

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: NeoHunter on August 06, 2001, 01:49:00 am
Nex thing you know, we'll all want Kazan to develop a FreeSpace CGI movie. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Kazan on August 06, 2001, 07:12:00 am
I Use Truespace - and im aware of the end of the beam passing through the ravana
Title: Your beamfight sir!
Post by: Setekh on August 06, 2001, 07:23:00 am
 
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Originally posted by ZylonBane:
And of course, everyone has all the habits of Mighty Kazan fully memorized.   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/rolleyes.gif)

As for the video... I got an amazing sense of deja vu from it... I'm sure I've seen something just like that somewhere else before... but where? Hmmmm.... Oh.... yeah!

The Freespace 2 Screensaver.

 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)

That thing was so cool.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)