ascottk on 14/1/2006 at 17:40
Have we decided on the storyline? If so some concept art/architecture layouts would be nice.
STiFU on 14/1/2006 at 18:23
It seems nobody has something to oppose, so lets work on this story! :) Str8g8, do you want to do those cutscenes on your own? If not, I'd be glad to help you out a bit... Besides i will do the soundtracks anyway, and a soundtrack composed for such a scene would be much better than just a normal soundtrack playing... :)
str8g8 on 14/1/2006 at 19:41
@ Ziemanskye: :thumb: Finally finished downloading the reference, excellent stuff. Jogged my memory a bit about the layout, it's like a small town inside the walls (the arieal photo shows this pretty well) ... very cool. I can count 3 major buildings, plus the garden and surrounds.
I am wondering now though whether it is possible to do this justice in the time allowed. The Castle could almost be a campaign in itself. What if, as someone suggested earlier, we break the story into two installments, with the Baron's Estate making up part two?
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If so some concept art/architecture layouts would be nice.
I thought we were waiting till C7 is out of the way? That should give me time to finish my FM (I really don't want to abandon it). Actually, I might try and do something in-between times, just to whet the appetite a bit, but I think the next step is fleshing out the story a little, finalising the mission structure etc.
@STiFU: if you are doing the sound, and I am doing the artwork, it would be great to collaborate on the editing and compositing! Sounds pefect.
ascottk on 14/1/2006 at 19:50
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I thought we were waiting till C7 is out of the way? That should give me time to finish my FM (I really don't want to abandon it). Actually, I might try and do something in-between times, just to whet the appetite a bit, but I think the next step is fleshing out the story a little, finalising the mission structure etc.
@STiFU: if you are doing the sound, and I am doing the artwork, it would be great to collaborate on the editing and compositing! Sounds pefect.
Sorry about that (I donated my C7 maps) so C7 is out of the way for me at least :eww: So we're doing the Cabal?
Ziemanskye on 14/1/2006 at 20:00
Can we hack the first post and have a vote?
Basically seems to be down to either the 5 mission First Glyph, or the 3 mission Evil Baron's second cousin's sister's councilor's maid's brother's plot :p
I don't mind either way, but I need to know what I'll be working on, and most people seem to be leaning towards the 3 mission thing...
ascottk on 14/1/2006 at 20:08
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Can we hack the first post and have a vote?
Basically seems to be down to either the 5 mission First Glyph, or the 3 mission Evil Baron's second cousin's sister's councilor's maid's brother's plot :p
I don't mind either way, but I need to know what I'll be working on, and most people seem to be leaning towards the 3 mission thing...
We might need a mod to add a poll or we make a new one (which might be a waste of space). Once a thread's been created I don't think I could add a poll after the fact.
Rantako on 14/1/2006 at 20:13
I like the 3 mission Cabal best.
If we want a poll someone should probably set up a thread for it on jay pettitt's new forum, once it's up and running.
STiFU on 14/1/2006 at 20:58
hmn i don't think we'll need a poll. Just speak out whatever you think... I'd rather like to do the 3 mission campaign by now. But still with the prison in between... :)
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@STiFU: if you are doing the sound, and I am doing the artwork, it would be great to collaborate on the editing and compositing! Sounds pefect.
Yes it does!!! :D But i would really like to do something with premiere too... We both can't handle that program very well until now, so lets learn it together and produce some hot stuff... I don't know about your rendering skills. Those could be usefull in our project and i'd be glad to make some nice renderings if needed for a scene, though i am no good character modeler. But we will see what time will bring... ;)
And while we have the thieves' highway now, will we give up the blackpack? It would be better to do so in my oppinion after copying the texts to the new host...
Ziemanskye on 14/1/2006 at 21:20
Posted my first screenshot of my experiment over at the thieveshighway forums - if you're in on the community campaign I guess you may as well start to migrate over there...
Crispy on 15/1/2006 at 00:09
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I'm just messing around with matinees, and I can't get fades to work, which could be a killer. Even screen tints in the trigger script don't kick in until after the matinee is complete, though flashing text up during the matinee works.
Darn. I guess that kills that idea. Sigh...
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I'm not sure about using matinees for cutscenes, they are never going to have the same flexibility as a movie.
Well, I was thinking we'd be able to do most of what we wanted to do - obviously if fades and tints don't work then we're kind of screwed though.
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However, it might be useful to set up a camera movement which can then be frapped to a movie, to be edited.
That sort of defeats the point of using matinees in the manner I described, which is to keep filesize down. If you're just going to render it out to a video file anyway then there's not much point in using them - it would probably be much easier to use a video editing program to do it all.
