[starfox]

Speaking of Cinematics, is it possible to have small FRED-made videos/cutscenes in place of command/Terran/Vasudan.ani.
It would really immerse some campaings, like seeing an installation wasted by the Shivans live, while you are flying missions elsewhere....

For Example, these semi-cutscenes/ingame video feed were used in Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2...
Would it be too hard to implement ?

[karajorma]

You could just script what you want to see, record it with FRAPS or GameCam and turn it into an ani though.

[S-99]

What i also mean to say is that the cinematics aren't all the high quality or clear compared to the game engine.  The cinematics are slightly blurry if and more pixelated compared to the game engine.
Besides we really do have better models and textures than the cinematics now anyway.
The thing i see with the lucifer is you'd have to change how the ship breaks apart when it explodes, so it'll have different debris compared to a normal lucifer exploding, which i don't think anyone here has seen an actual lucifer exploding in game.

[knn]

You'd still need to do those particles, and hack the game engine, essentially, to prevent the jump point from closing before it's time and keep the Lucy there
And those explosions look quite different than anything ingame

[S-99]

Oh well, i just mean to say we got something better to offer the cinematics which is better textures and models, stars, suns, maybe even nebula's.
As far as reproducing the explosion goes for the lucy?
You don't need a carbon copy of that explosion, the lucy had a blue shockwave anyway, Dab's shockwaves would work fine (given they had some tweaking for the cutscene also).
As far as anything else being carbon copy, you might as well just say **** it, and toss in the old models into the recreated cutscene, and then recreating the cutscene wouldn't even matter
The idea of redesigning the cutscenes is so they'll be better, and if not better, impressively different which would be really cool anyway, it would really make the fsu stand out for it's abilities if they wished to do such a grand not conversion, but redesign.
Which is the idea of revised cinematics, the old lucy explosion probably would be different if remade in game engine

[S-99]

Also, i don't know **** for giggles about the particle system.
Except hearing that it was extremely limiting until it gets built upon to make it more capable.

[knn]

There's a huge flash when the Lucy explodes and a few smaller ones before, that's what I meant, not the shockwaves

[S-99]

Woweee, a flash before the schockwave, dab's shockwaves do have a flare up affect, just not to the major extent of making your whole screen go white.
Yeah doing a flare up is hard, keeping that aspect of the lucy explosion would be really important, you can't lose it because it's like supposed to be one of those epic moments in the game especially since it's the biggest moment that is the ultimate demise of the lucifer, and the main ending of fs1.
The thing that would be really cool is watching VA's lucifer come out of subspace, and doing all the exploding business.