[Jinnigan]

Hello, peoples of HLP! I come from a distant land called EVE-Online, where Massive Multiplayer Online Game where the galaxy is huge, war has losers, and politics and intrigue is rife!

You may find a map of the EVE-O universe here

Most recently, our alliance has steamrolled over the opposition, with nary a sizable opposing force to stop us. Of course, no victory is complete without a well-made propaganda push! As such, our propaganda thinktank will be crafting a magnificent video, drawing from sources and influences ranging from Frank Coppola to Starship Troopers to, yes, Freespace 2!

Specifically, we would like to use some of the map-types seen in Freespace 2 - that is, the node map, though, of course, tailored for our own specific needs.

To begin, we're looking for some footage of the node map in action. Specifically, footage where the map is used to show changing battlefronts, changing soverignty, etc, as we are planning on using a similar set-up for some propaganda pieces for EVE-Online, and having an example would help. Also, any footage of where the map is run through in a, uh, 3d manner would be helpful, in order for us to get the same timing and "feel" down.

Furthermore, if anyone has any ideas on how to go about using this - for example, are there any programs that people have found particularly useful - that would be great. Right now, my idea is to just draw some spheres in 3DSMax and animate it, but if anyone's got better solutions (and surely, someone must have redrawn some maps in the history of modding this game), we would welcome your input and advice.

<3

does FRED provide any tools for making videos using the galaxy map?

[Dark Hunter]

does FRED provide any tools for making videos using the galaxy map?

No.

Take a look at some of the in-game animations (if you don't have the game, I'll post a few when I get back to my house... in a couple of hours.)

[Jinnigan]

Unfortunately, I seem to have left the game CDs at home. However, if you know off the top of your head which videos have good parts to study, that'd be all I need.

[aldo_14]

Hello, peoples of HLP! I come from a distant land called EVE-Online, where Massive Multiplayer Online Game where the galaxy is huge, war has losers, and politics and intrigue is rife!

You may find a map of the EVE-O universe here

Most recently, our alliance has steamrolled over the opposition, with nary a sizable opposing force to stop us. Of course, no victory is complete without a well-made propaganda push! As such, our propaganda thinktank will be crafting a magnificent video, drawing from sources and influences ranging from Frank Coppola to Starship Troopers to, yes, Freespace 2!

Specifically, we would like to use some of the map-types seen in Freespace 2 - that is, the node map, though, of course, tailored for our own specific needs.

To begin, we're looking for some footage of the node map in action. Specifically, footage where the map is used to show changing battlefronts, changing soverignty, etc, as we are planning on using a similar set-up for some propaganda pieces for EVE-Online, and having an example would help. Also, any footage of where the map is run through in a, uh, 3d manner would be helpful, in order for us to get the same timing and "feel" down.

Furthermore, if anyone has any ideas on how to go about using this - for example, are there any programs that people have found particularly useful - that would be great. Right now, my idea is to just draw some spheres in 3DSMax and animate it, but if anyone's got better solutions (and surely, someone must have redrawn some maps in the history of modding this game), we would welcome your input and advice.

<3

does FRED provide any tools for making videos using the galaxy map?

Unfortunately I can't think of a better way to make videos than rendering in Max, but on the plus side I believe there is an existing model of the FS2 nodemap as seen in the cbanis (by Taristin - IIRC; apologies to the author if I'm mistaken) which you may find easy to adapt to your purposes:)

[Jinnigan]

Who's cbanis? How do I contact him?

[Dark Hunter]

"Cbanis" is shorthand for "Command Brief Animations". 

They are the ones that play during the command briefings.

[bizzybody]

drawing from sources and influences ranging from Frank Coppola to Starship Troopers

Please read the Starship Troopers book. The movie bears little in common with it. It was actually a project titled "Bug Hunt" until someone told the director it had some stuff in common with the book, so Verhoeven lifted the title and some character names from the book and that *bleechhh* movie is what we got.