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KaBoom is working on an intro movie for the mod.

It will be 50 seconds long and be a 30Mb optional downlaod if everything goes to plan, it will have music and sound effects and run at 30 fps full screen like the original.

Here is a sample of the movie in its development stage. How it translates in the end movie we will have to see

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Is it done with Lightwave?

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Also, will it be just a preview of the MOD's ships, or will it have a particular theme?

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omg.... this is gonna be sweet!

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the final one will be limited to 256 colours right?? shame =(

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Yes it's rendered in lightwave 6.5, and 5.6 on my two computers. The movie is about a battle that takes place during the minbari war. 2 hyperions and some fighters vs. 1 minbari cruiser, guess who wins. It's not a historical battle just one I made for fun.

Cpt. White I assume, since you got the pic, that you got the jumpoint ani I sent. Hope everything worked out.

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sounds kick ass

why the hell did you give away whats in it? nevermind, I dont want your excuses

can you please have radio chatter? love that....

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Originally posted by KillMeNow
the final one will be limited to 256 colours right?? shame =(

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Uhm... Are we talking about an MVE ?
Our anis are supposed to have 256 colors , I dont know anything about MVE format.
However , the EPIC color depth reducer can reduce an entire image sequence to a 256 color palette
I say : Even IF we have to go for 256 colors you won't see any great differences. The Interface screens of the Demo also have 256 colors which you ABSOLUTELY don't notice .

I say : TRUST the Corps , people !

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Skullar. MVE format is a video format used by Volition INC.

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Thank you darkblade . I know that MVE is the format used by Volition and THEY encode it EXCLUSIVELY.
But I dont know the specifications.

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256 color TGA files I believe is the specification. I think it runs at 30fps.

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Gahhhhh, Cant breathe cant breathe, drool is filling my lungs cant Breathe, *faints*

That looks mucho good

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"holy f**k" where the 1st two words out of my mouth when i saw that pic. bloody hell i dont care how big it is im downloading even though i only have a 56k connection i can always get my mate to download it on his cable connection :d. by the way how many missions r there going to be in the demo? ive searched every thread here and i cant seem to find any mentioned.

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Hey, nice rendering. Is those damage efx made partially with particle storm on LW 6.5?

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That look really great far better than the FS2 intro
Is there a lightware demo around cos that picture has encouraged me into thinking about learning how create movie sequences.

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Lightwave = 5,000$
Blender = FREE
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b5-blender.com

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Lightwave ....good
Blender ......bad

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lol

blender = bad
Lightwave = good
Lightwave aquired thru questionable means = best

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quote:

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Hey, nice rendering. Is those damage efx made partially with particle storm on LW 6.5

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It was actually quite simple to make the damage effects, i just made 2 partigon (particles made with polygon's not hypervoxels) emitters for the particles, and something around 30 lens flares, didn't use particle storm though. Funny thing is that was actually my first try at that scene and my next couple renders looked worse than that one

Another option, is that I could post a smaller divx of the movie which might end up looking better than the mve, although it won't be usable in the game, it will be smaller than dl'ing the mve.

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Yamn!!! That looks canon!

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