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Offline TopAce

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TRAILER: Descendants of the Sol System
I've been developing this project for a while now, but I didn't pimp it yet because development is rather slow. For long months, the files were untouched, but now I have once again begun to put some work into this. This will be a campaign/mod for FreeSpace 2 Open which will feature new ships, weapons, effects, and music. Some are made by me, but most are ones that I collected from FreeSpaceMods.

As for the trailer - it's my first ever video, made by Windows Movie Maker. The in-game footage was recorded using GameCam. Music is "Rainy Day Way" by David Flavin, downloaded from freeplaymusic.com.

YouTube trailer

Comments/questions about the trailer and the campaign are welcome.
« Last Edit: August 19, 2009, 09:04:08 am by General Battuta »
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Re: TRAILER - Descendants of the Sol System
This looks good. Love the music.

What d'you folks think about capslock in thread titles?

 

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Caps lock doesn't bother me too much personally. Some of them come off as a bit grandiose, but they're rare enough that I tend to ignore most of them anyway.

Nice trailer :yes: and I agree: it was a good choice of music  :D

 

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Re: TRAILER - Descendants of the Sol System
Righto. Looking back through the forum, I see capslock only in release threads, so I'm gonna edit this one.

 

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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
Ah! I'm looking forward to another campaign from you, TopAce.

Nice trailer. I'm intrigued by the description on the side that mentions it's not set in the FreeSpace timeline.

 

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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
Righto. Looking back through the forum, I see capslock only in release threads, so I'm gonna edit this one.

Personally I liked it better the other way.  It specified exactly what I has looking at so  knew that it was a trailer. 

As for the trailer I'll watch it when I get home and comment.  I know it will be high quality work from you TopAce.
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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
I'm concerned about the precedent it sets. I don't think we want TRAILER and ANNOUNCEMENT and QUESTION and SUGGESTION popping up all over. I'm most concerned about ANNOUNCEMENT since a whole lot of people propose campaign ideas that never go anywhere.

That said I'm open to discussion on the topic - but probably not here!

 

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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
Traditionally, the capslock has only been used for actual releases...
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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
...TRAILER and ANNOUNCEMENT and QUESTION and SUGGESTION popping up all over...

Trailer and announcement are okay in my view. Suggestion and question aren't.

Anyway, I have renamed the thread again, I hope it's satisfactory and descriptive enough.
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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
That said I'm open to discussion on the topic - but probably not here!
But where, Battuta? Where can we discuss capitalisation protocol? Where? This is a very important issue!

Really, though, capitals that promote actual content like TRAILER and obviously RELEASE seem fine to me.

 
Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
I would call it just "Descendants of Sol" myself. Has a better ring to it I think. Most people tend to prefer short campaign titles. My own campaign has too much of a mouth full of words.

The trailer's pretty good. I see Sol forces doing kamikazes at the end there. Yet to play on a side that does that as far as I know (though I haven't played everything)

  
Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
Anyone know what that cylindrical ship was about halfway through the trailer? Looked like one big cannon or shipyard. At :58-1:04.
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Anyone know what that cylindrical ship was about halfway through the trailer? Looked like one big cannon or shipyard. At :58-1:04.
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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
I see Sol forces doing kamikazes at the end there.

I'm pretty sure that was a Myrmidon. I spotted some Lokis too...I'm just going to assume they're GTVA for now.
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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
It's not set in the FS-verse, so no GTVA.

 

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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
Anyone know what that cylindrical ship was about halfway through the trailer? Looked like one big cannon or shipyard. At :58-1:04.

Anyone know what that cylindrical ship was about halfway through the trailer? Looked like one big cannon or shipyard. At :58-1:04.
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I would call it just "Descendants of Sol" myself. Has a better ring to it I think. Most people tend to prefer short campaign titles. My own campaign has too much of a mouth full of words. ..

I considered that title, but "Sol" (etymologically) refers to the Sun, and humans aren't descendants of the Sun, but of Earth. "Descendants of the Earth"... I don't know, the story is set outside the Sol System for most of the campaign, and I want to emphasize that the humans you're seeing in this campaign are originated not from the system(s) you visit more frequenlty, but from somewhere else. Human character in general will play a somewhat important role, and it will be explained right in the beginning that all the differences between an average human now and an average human 150-odd years later can be traced back to the Earth.
Anyway, I'm open to suggestions, because frankly I'm not 100% satisfied about the title myself.
I see Sol forces doing kamikazes at the end there.

I'm pretty sure that was a Myrmidon. I spotted some Lokis too...I'm just going to assume they're GTVA for now.

Yes, the kamikaze fighters are Myrmidons. As for the Lokis, they are your wingmen. They are supposed to be further away, so unless your eyes are very good, I suppose some add-goal SEXP is missing from that mission.
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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
Just call it Children of Sol or Descendants of Sol.

 

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Re: Descendants of the Sol System trailer
Then it'll be Descendants of Sol.

Thanks for the advice.
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Re: TRAILER: Descendants of the Sol System
Put the capslock back in the title. It seemed to work well for content.

Now the question is what to do about threads like the Olympus Burning and Earth Defense ones....

 

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Re: TRAILER: Descendants of the Sol System
Personally, I would choose to leave them as-is. Using something like "ANNOUNCEMENT:" might be useful.
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