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Hosted Projects - Standalone => The Babylon Project => Topic started by: Vidmaster on May 21, 2009, 06:17:59 am
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Maybe we should update this DVD at some point in the future post Zathras.
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Hip has already contacted me about doing a new campaign pack and I suggested a DVD 2.0 as well at that time. Of course all this is pending release of 3.6.10 and Zathras and hopefully a couple more campaigns.
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well, Hunters, updated Janus, updated Operations and maybe Battle at... should be sufficient? :lol:
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Speaking of TBP DVD 2.0, the current menu system on the DVD is quite "epic" but in retrospect, it my be a bit overkill plus it may not work smoothly on older systems.
Do you guys think I should tone it down to something a little simplier or do you guys still like the "Big Show"?
hip63 :p
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My recommendation: Keep it simple. Remove the fullscreen thing. Remove the sounds. And the custom pointer. Don't know about old systems, but on new ones, it just looks awful in my opinion.
[rant]Why? Because to me, it all seems so bloody 90s. I do not like being surprised by soundeffects playing at 100% Volume. I do not like having to wait several seconds for it to go through all the fade-ins and fade-outs.[/rant]
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The Music stays. Period. (at least during the main install, it just goes so well with the slides, but the menu music may go.)
However I can do something about the volume with the new software I have available to me now. And I'm flexible on the other items you mentioned but please, keep the rants out. I spent about 100 hours designing and redesigning the last one, so I can do with out the rants please.
But yes, I'm thinking simplier, more streamlined (and yes faster) but still be TBP DVD.
The last was kinda like a big Earth Force Battleship or something but now I'm thinking more Whitestar :)
hip63 :p
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hey, it's hip! :)
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Don't suppose you have any way of making it multi platform?
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adding the the files for other platforms is no problem, however I don't know if the DVD itself works on other platforms though...
hip63 :p
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Well if we can't do a Linux and Mac installer then we need something for those platforms to be able to at least be able to extract the files to a directory.
Another question. How hard would it be to make a separate updater from DVD 1 to DVD 2? That way it's a smaller download for people that already have the DVD?
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I was already thinking the same thing ;)
I don't forsee a problem with doing that.
hip63 :p
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Maybe we should go with 2.x for the campaign pack to try to get it back in line with the DVD number. So in the future when DVD 3 comes out campaign pack 3 will match what's in it. Any campaign packs released between DVD versions will just be a revision.
So right now we are at DVD 1.0 and CP 2.0 we should go to:
DVD 2.0 CP say 2.5
Next CP would be 2.6 etc
DVD 3.0 comes out CP goes to 3.0
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disliking that, makes things even more complex.