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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: StarSlayer on February 05, 2009, 08:21:20 pm
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Its a Nascar-type Theatrical Hybrid Event... No not really
I was wondering if putting together a FSO Trailer that showcases the entirety of the FSO improvements and projects hosted by HLP and GW would be a worthwhile initiative. Quite frankly I think in many cases fans of a particular mod are completely oblivious to the other content that FSO offers. Content that I believe they would find interesting if they knew it existed, since if you like Xwings more often then not you like Starfurries and Vipers. I personally had played the GOTY version of FS2 many years ago and only rediscovered the game when I stumbled upon BTRL a few years ago. Even then it was only because of my involvement in the team that i was slowly exposed to the variety of the FSO communities' offerings.
The purpose of this trailer would be two fold; first to promote the FSO engine as a competitive modding platform for potential modders and second to increase awareness abroad of the current projects offered by the engine. In effect HLP and GW as well as the different mods would actively promote a standard trailer that would display FSO improvements and then mini teaser trailers for the various projects like TBP, FotG, Diaspora, SoL, Wing Commander, Blue Planet and campaigns like Silent Threat Reborn, Derelict, Just Another Day, etc. Hopefully it could be something scalable that could occasionally be updated and then easily disseminated as new projects come online.
A basic framework might look like this:
An intro section showcasing the improvements to the FS engine made by SCP and the its community. Listing some of the major improvement like normal mapping, new texture mapping mods, glow points, skyboxes, etc. and comparing stock footage with the latest versions. This section would not only be promoting FreeSpace but the engine as well. FSO is arguably the best space sim modding platform available and hopefully this section would attract new projects and modders who might otherwise have utilized a different platform.
The body would then consist of short (possibly 30 second) teaser trailers of the mods and campaigns that are available for the engine.
They would follow a standard format possibly like the following:
- Title
- Short Description
- Game Footage, Screenies, Concept Art what have you
- Forum and website address
Putting together a video like this is outside of my skill set, but I think a promotional initiative like this would be an excellent way of spreading awareness between the different mod's fanbases as well as a tool for drawing new blood and projects to the FSO community.
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I think it would be a really good idea. Maybe we could also post the video in many Youtube accounts, so that it spreads more easily. Also in other sites, like Metacafe (I'm not sure if it's free, though). We would need just some footage from each mod and someone to edit it. I could do it, I like editing videos.
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In my opinion this is absolutely great idea :yes: We can spread it out via YouTube, Google Video, ModDB and other internet hosters :) Everything we need are beauty shots and videos from every mod/Total Conversion and good video edition program. :yes:
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Anyway, I think we must contact the people responsible for each Mod, or we won't get anything.
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Well, we've got PMs :)
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So, we've got to contact:
FUBAR-BDHR (Babylon Project)
IceFire (Blackwater Operations)
Darius (Blue Planet)
Galemp (FSPort and Neo Terra Victorious)
Woomeister (Inferno)
Admiral Nelson (Terran Vasudan War)
Tolwyn (Wing Commander Saga)
pecenipicek (The Apocalypse Project)
Lt. Cannonfodder (Diaspora)
brandx0 (Fate of The Galaxy)
DaBrain (Shadows of Lylat and Microspace)
Shiv (Earth Defense and Nukemod Children of Shiva)
Omniscaper (Battlestar Galactica Beyond the Red Line)**
Star Dragon (Robotech)**
Nuclear (GTI Rebellion)**
Whoever is responsible for Transcend (Transcend)**
Lucika (Syrk)**
Gai Daigoji (Gundam Seed: Wheels of Destiny)**
jc4jc (Stargate SG-1: Earth's Defence)**
Blackrazor (Starlancer: The Sol War)**
Starlord (Pathways)**
** From Game-Warden. Not sure if is a member here or if their name here is the same.
Can anyone think of other mods?
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And no one cares of Earth Defense :(
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I only listed the ones I knew and the ones here on Hard-Light :P
Where is Earth Defense?
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Game-Warden - Forum
for website check on external sites bar
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Edited the first post.
Shiv, you're in a lot of Mods :P Start making the videos for yours.
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Don't count me in Syrk. Lucika is the mod lead guy.
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Alright. I think that now I have to beat my laziness and start PMing everyone
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Check out Sector Game too.
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all the ones who are on Hard-Light have been messaged.
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Sounds interesting.
I have a question that maybe someone can answer...are there any good open source video capture systems that will capture from OpenGL (i.e. from FreeSpace 2). That'd be my biggest stumbling block right now.
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TAP is up for it... hmmm... evil ideas....
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Galemp (FSPort and Neo Terra Victorious)
You forgot me... :(
Woomeister (Inferno)
To be honest I don't know if Woo has enough time to make videos for both INFA and INF SCP.
Whoever is responsible for Transcend (Transcend)**
Ransom Arceihn (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=1494) :)
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Mobius, I have time to record Inferno videos :D
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Giving our amount of WIP stuff I don't know if it's the case to show stuff waiting for major changes. I won't like an INF SCP video because we're to make radical changes to the mod.
For example, nearly everything the old INFA trailer shows is outdated.
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Well, about the WIP mods, if they're still have too little progress to make a game video, maybe just some mock up screenshots, or stuff like that, I dunno. Or maybe, if some of the mod teams prefer, just have them out of the video. I just hope we can get a good amount of videos to make this trailer.
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Sorry guys, you want cobra for pathways.
Also regarding Rl, I'm afrail the only completed models (and they are not in game) are under the starshatter platform. and aside from this, the only art I have are from the FASA booklet: they are just sketches (even though they are great) but black and white and certainly not in game.
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Also, for Fate of the Galaxy, you're looking for Chief, not me. I'm just the art guy. I forwarded your PM over to him.
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Sounds like, from some of the responses, it might be a good idea to keep this idea alive but to set a deadline for much further in the future. BWO itself is undergoing some pretty radical changes to the way it looks ...it already looks good but in 6-8 months it'll be looking much closer to what we'll be releasing with.
So perhaps a long term deadline would be good.
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I am Star Dragon. Since I write a massive crossover fanfic i use FS2 to make occasional screenies.
Eventually I was going to do teh same thing but not for FS2 as a mod compilition, but only of teh ones I used in my fic (basicly 1/4 the HLP/GW rosters),
While you could use the trailer I posted for Robotech on youtube, it sucks, if you could find my earlier on on GW blindgame.avi that would be much better to chop up, but I have not been able to google it and do not posess a copy anymore on my drives.
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I'd be willing to contribute some clips from SoL too, but not before the next SoL trailer has been released.
There is a lot of new stuff, I'd like to be exclusive for our trailer.
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Lt. Cannonfodder (Diaspora)
*ahem*
I've already told Slayer that I'm happy to see Diaspora contribute some video for them.
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Lt. Cannonfodder (Diaspora)
*ahem*
...they rebelled... :lol:
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Lt. Cannonfodder (Diaspora)
*ahem*
I've already told Slayer that I'm happy to see Diaspora contribute some video for them.
Actually kara I really only proposed the idea, I haven't been involved in the implementation.
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Well, we can leave the project on hold, until we can get a reasonable number of MODs to give us usable content here. If anyone is going to post new Vids for us to use, either bump this thread or PM me, please.