Why485 fan club

Lolz, ok I’ll join

SolCommand, member since 4/9/2010

tai@xD, member since 9th of April 2010

xD

Vesko, member since 30th November 2009.

why rulez!
Gisteron, member since nineth of April 2010

i have to say that, these videos are the least he have given to the community … far far far away ^^

so imagine …

member since almost one year now

Mindhunter member since: Ive seen hes bughugefxpack

Edit: No it was since he released his Liberty fleet video with the giant colony ship in it 8-)

Oh my. I really don’t know what to say to this. So instead, here is a picture of something I’m working on right now.

Thank you all.

Count me in too… I love WHY’s work 8-)

That’s from the Freelancer Aces video, right?

It’s a derivative of that old video, yes.

http://why485.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/clouds/

Free bonus test render.

Nice clouds so i will join
He||oween, member since 10.04.10

Frank makes crazy missile trails and stuff and doesn’t afraid of anything. Count me in.

Why485 wrote:
http://why485.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/clouds/

You have a very cool blog, Why85.

I have been wondering what tools Digital Anvil used to create the cut scenes in Freelancer… especially the on-planet scenes with people. Could they have done it with a tool such as Lightwave or Maya?

Is there any viable approach to making elaborate THN’s for cut scenes?

Your videos rock already, but it would be revolutionary if you could get them into the game (other than as intro movies).

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i think they have some tool to convert a scene file of a rendering program to thn. for now, such programs are useful in a massive way to plan thn’s and similar. positions, motions, lightening (without shading ofc as FL also does none), everything is simplier to plan in a visual program and to copy the coordinates later into your thn.

Vital, member since 11.05.2010(dd.mm.yyyy).

Found this video on youtube yesterday, awesome.

Gisteron wrote:
i think they have some tool to convert a scene file of a rendering program to thn.

“They”?

Do you mean Digital Anvil? Or does such a tool exist outside of Microsoft?

That is my main question.

Regarding using an animation tool for planning, I can see the value of that in a small THN, as you demonstrated very well in another thread. But surely you do not suggest coding a 5-minute cut scene by hand? No matter what you use for planning, that would be a huge job!

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i guess DA. but likely microsoft knows of it as well and used it the time they completed FL.
about the longer cutscenes: noone said, implementing high qualities is gonna be easy or fast
of course it costs time and of course its a huge job. once you get used to thn it runs lot faster but anyway. trust me, making the scene in an animation program first and copy it then to the thn is much, much faster than trying and error with the script and the game. you could also make shorter cutscenes and splice them together or let them run one after the previous. however, if you aim for something excitingly massive deserving a honorful name, don’t hope that you will get fast and good results. it will take time and power. enthusiasm is your only help and frustration on error your only enemy.

My point is that it would be a lot easier if we could export from the animation tool to THNs. After all, that is the way that Freelancer was made.

I keep hoping that, someday, a guy like Why85 will find an exporter that will do that.

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