Rarebit

The_Bruceter wrote: Nice, congrats man. I only just found out a couple of weeks ago its in Downtown you need to mission in order to get max rep, dam i hate the big mish areas lol What district you run a mission in doesn't affect reputation...

Pre-emptively flagging this thread for spoilers.

Just this once you're either going to have to guess it, or you're going to have to wait.

Hrm, I guess the "3 minutes" figure may vary... Just as well for this one that *some* browsers play Flash back a little slow (I clocked one that took four minutes to get through the file).

It is done. Not quite the compact download I'd hoped for, but I've learned that what I laid out for this one was probably just too much to try to put in a single cinematic. I also learned a lot about pacing, and the various constraints thi...

Synapse777 wrote: Not a bad first try, but hmmm... maybe a bit broader in the jaw and a little less "long" in the face? at least if she needs to look like the char RSI we got. and maybe the shadows on the cheeks under the eyes are bit too...

Likeness this.

Hm, Niobe's up next. Not really familiar with drawing her. Threw some reference shots together for myself: And then took a stab: Distract them with lighting effects!

Playing around with individually drawn (rather than cloned sets of) particles:

Receding in perspective, in 2D. Actually had a use a calculator to get the scaling progression. >_< EDIT: Although these layers are layered in reverse order here, and seen before I moved them to their final x/y positions--which I did by "e...

Building a 2D simulation of Wright's code sphere effect that can "spawn" from her and fade out as the "particles" are left behind:

Manatik wrote: Nice!

Happy Halloween, everyone. ;D

Thought it might be useful to talk through the conversion process for getting the drawings into the final cinematic--at least, this is the process that's worked so far in test runs. ;) PSD, large I draw most of the artwork--just about ever...

My beloved Photoshop 4 can do lots of stuff, but saving png files with automatic transparency is not one of them. Had to resort to Photoshop CS to export this element properly. Should show up with the background transparent in Firefox and...

Sphairo wrote: I always saw Cryptos as a puppet to the machine and helped carry out there dirty biddings, whatever that entails :P That's no longer the case, but it illustrates the difficulties we've had trying to support activities and ou...

You have to be careful how you interpret the exact things he says in that mission. I think that's already been done (back when the whole "there is no such procedure" thing happened during Red Sky), but at any rate it should probably be han...

Threw together pieces from a couple different backgrounds. Almost makes you want to sit down and jack in, hm? (I'd pick the more detailed chair on the left, though. Never know about those other two; they only appear in one shot after all.)

cloudwolf wrote: Have Dracomet code up some sort of system whereby the loading area music still plays for these new cinematics but not the old ones? I know it's likely too late for this release but maybe include it in a hotfix or next time...

CPT_Starschwar wrote: Will these new fangled cinematics be using the "vp6" video codec, by chance? It seems pretty much impossible to convert swfs lacking that to a format that would lend itself to fan added music versions. *Shrug* As I sa...

It means no sound. It's looking like the final result will be a swf rather than a gif, which I suppose in theory means that it could contain sound, but in reality, I have no sound experience, no time, blah blah. Hm, do we still have that b...

Storyboard vs background animating with "final" art:

deimoslvov wrote: Wow! I'm getting more and more impatient and more and more optimistic! Oops. Must keep expectations low. Hm, what I can do... Ah, here we go. Find the hovercraft: Storyboard sketch I posted earlier for the scene the stuff...

Hm, I'm using Firefox 3.0, and I can see it no problem. Maybe it's a proxy thing or a cache problem or something.

As far as animation goes, we aren't talking full body animation, because that is, like, really hard and stuff. My own style is eh spontaneous--"sloppy" would also be not entirely inaccurate--and not so great at animating detailed things ov...

People, I've already given all the reasons I have to give for the changes, including the Cyph/EPN changes. These changes are for development reasons, not for the story, and I'm not going to try to invent a story reason to "explain" them, j...

Hm well, probably gonna turn out being one of those things where the later parts have less animation than the earlier ones because I slowly started to realize I was running out of time to do all the drawing. ;) I am about a half-week behin...

Finished the storyboarding; here's another relatively spoiler-free smattering. There are about 90 of these little cartoons, ~1 per second of the final animation, in theory. Now I have to start actually drawing that. =p

Selections from today's quicky storyboarding. Will be using my usual lasso for the final stuff, but the pen is quicker for putting together an animatic that will give me the overall timing and serve as a framework for filling in with finis...

Hah, the pop-in by you-know-who was cool. Music switch made me go

You can pick only one of the 28, so choose carefully!

11.3, new cinematic, new format:

shinpseudo wrote: :O

SE Downtown is back up. S Slums looks like it's going to stay down.

South Richland (and probably SE Westview) and SE Downtown on Recursion are down. Looks like the kind of thing where we'd have to restart the entire cluster. Since we're on the verge of an update that already had one premature release today...

Looks like the Station Launcher patch files have been set back to the correct version, so running through Station Launcher now should work okay.