Perfect timing I would say; forming of the ERPG and this new push for a trailer... All we need to do now is to push our asses into gear and pump out some memrable moments... And I like the choice of music; seems very tence; good for the hype machine...
YES LETS DO THIS PROCASTINATORS UNITE!!!!! tomorrow...... ;D also for music from newgrounds i always liked Demon-Slayer12 so i nominate his music from there Demon-Slayer12 my favorite is shattered remains of my soul ;x
It was agreed by the community a while back to halt it for now... It seems that the time has come to start turning its massive gears :D
gears.... reminds me of Gears of War, which i already pre-ordered and am waiting for my gamestop buddy to give me my copy as early as he can ;o BUT YES, dance to the music ya'll
Keep this to the topic at hand! Propaganda! The mighty Krenzo shall rule! Uhm, perhaps a brief showing of squadding up, perhaps near the start of the trailer when the music is still slow?
I find it hard to believe you won't see anything of it. Well, I have no choice, I must use demo's. They are small enough to upload, which can't be said from the video's I've made with fraps. The only problem is I can't work with the demo player. I've been trying all day, but ... I don't know why, I just can't use it like I should. Even the video tutorial from valve didn't help me much. I can add new keys overlooking the action, but i can't get the camera to follow them. Is there anyone here who knows how to work with it? I can easily upload the .dem files. Edit: Ah screw this. Sometimes the playback plays waaay to fast, and I can't tune it down. Other times I ... well I'm not gonna mention all the bugs and problems there are. It just is NO GOOD.
type in console: demoui I'll ask Fragalishus for his video walkthroughs for demo editing again if you want. Using the demo editing options, you can put up multiple cameras (not just player POV) in the game itself.
Well, it can be usefull. 11 days till the trailer has to be finished. I hope someone else has got something by now. EDIT: 11 days ? I just think off something. Is that the day when the awards are given or when the trailer should be finished? How long have we got? EDIT2: Broccoli, I've put the demo's from Money and one from Escort on my webspace (They are all named Escort1-5, but only Escort itself is from escort). It seems I've learned something today. You can't make demo's from commander view (actually, it makes sence). So you can't see the things i did as commander (researching, ordering, ..), you can only see the action. And I've got to warn you, I could only get out of the demo using alt-tab. The mouse wouldn't work with the demo player, it would only work with the commander ui (yes, you can go to the research menu in a demo). This means I've let you down since nothing from money can be used There's still the escort demo. It's the one were you asked GI to lay down some mines at the flag, soooo ... yeah, you've got that too. But hey, I looked through it and found 4 moments which could be used to attract people. escort.dem 1900-2100 (00:57-01:03) 5700-5960 (02:52-03:01) 9850-10200 (04:58-05:09) 23700-end (11:58-12:07) I'm not sure this is what you're looking for though. I've used these commands to clear most of the screen: sv_cheats 1 emp_map_toggle cl_drawhud 0 hud_deathnotice 0 http://users.telenet.be/samhannes/empires/Downloads/
Thanks a lot for that silk, I'll see if I can cap those bits off of them. As for what will be included in the final thing, here's a quick list (in rough order of appearance). None of this is edited yet, it's just a plan. The class introductions will hopefully be done in a style similar to the TF2 trailer, with a freeze-frame and stuff (If I can figure out how to do it). Spawn stuff (selecting class / weapons / skills) Squading up Resupply Moving out Placing buildings (comm) Building defences / refs (introduce engineer) Infantry combat (introduce rifleman) Orders (comm) More infantry combat (introduce grenadier) Stealth / ninja (introduce scout) Vehicle construction Vehicles as transport (APC / Jeep) Vehicle combat (AFV / LT) Research (comm) Vehicle customization More vehicle combat (Mediums / Heavies) Artillery / Blimps Faction Introductions And all in three minutes! This will also be inter-weaved with snippets of the story, in the form of things like "In a race for survival..." "...There can be only one winner." Whatever it is, it has to be rediculously cheesy. I'll update this post if I think of anything else.
I like everything from it. It won't be easy though, I hope you've got experience with things like this. Well, in the meanwhile I'll keep recording stuff, both first person view as spectator mode. You never know when you come across something awesome.
funny... "in the race for survival... there can only be one winner" sounds really cheezy but "there can only ever be one winner.... in the race for survival" actaully sounds quite cool. some things to add to that list, are definatly people moving tactically, working together and giving orders. that's the most fun part of the game.
Maybe it needs some lubrication. :D But on topic, we should put some jeep jumps in the video too. *EDIT* ooh and using mines to flip a cv. We should just get a bunch of people to go to a certain server at a certain time so we can film what we want in the video. It'd be just like a real movie
mabey it should be general principle to film any game where there are more than 15 player... more likely to find a hit...
Just make sure you have a voiceover of something sounding like the guy who does all the movie trailers with the hilariously deep and rough voice
I've added 2 more demo's. I only have 50 MB of webspace for free. Since the files for my site itself are 16 MB, and these demo's are 33 MB, I may have a problem adding more. http://users.telenet.be/samhannes/empires/Downloads/ One is recorded in district (if you need infantry action, reviving, healing -- nade-spamming) The other is from mvalley (me as grenadier against nf tanks, sometimes with 3-4 rockets aimed at me; and at some point you have a nice view) So here's were I am so far: 4 demo's (I hope you know how to smooth them), 4 different maps (Escort, district, mvalley and gauntlet), and a file in which you'll find some of the better moments. BTW, have you thought about using the Empires music? The one which plays when you've started up Empires, and are looking for a server. It seems I always was to quickly. I just noticed it today for the first time while I was losing time using non-existing commands in console. It is pretty good.
If you've got the voice and the mic, I'll add it in! As for Jeep jumps / flipping, I don't think they will be included. It doesn't really match the tone that I'm going for. Oh, and I've taken out those class introduction ideas for now, they were taking too long. If I get some longer music then I may reconsider. I'll check out the Empires intro track as Silk suggests. EDIT: I checked it out, and it's even shorter than what I have atm. As good as it is, I just don't think it'll give me enough time. Giving orders will definately be in there. I'm gonna have troubles matching my 4 aspect ratio in first person to the widescreen in 3rd though. I could just black out the sides, or possibly have some flags or something waving in the background? And Silk, if you're out of space I wouldn't worry too much. I already have 30GB of short-listed footage, that's yet to go through a second round of elimination. If any comms see me recording in games in the next couple of days, I'd like to get a little footage from within the comm vehicle on a busy server. So, I'd really appreciate it if you'd give up your seat for a few seconds whilst the battle is in swing. I promise I won't bankrupt you! And it's for a good cause :D
I figure I might as well say this... Krenzo...still think it would be a good idea to use my voice in the trailer? :p
