This intro/trailer is about 2 minutes long and features some flash animation, and other neat effects. Sadly, in order to keep the file size manageable, I had to really reduce the quality of this movie, the Flash file was like 2 megs tops, but the AVI was around 80 with little compression... Sad... It still came out rather nice however, and is great for getting people in the mood for the module this movie is intended for. also note that the credits at the end of the film won't be updated... The main differences is that 2 of the hak paks I orriginally was using ended up not meshing with what I wanted properly later on, so they needed to be removed, the two in question are the 100 outdoor placeables (wish I could have kept them without editing .2da's, I loved the trees), and the horse/donkey/wagon hak. I also discovered Lady bloods all in one LOTR hak, and replaced the witchhaven pack, with the all in one. thats about it, otherwise no other changes where made.
This is a compilation of the old system into a single score. There were 3 that made this score of 9.00 then rounded to 9.
Posted by SeymourGull ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2004-01-25 16:27:00
Cool movie, great intro, sets scene and mood and all, nice!
Fyi on technical note, when I downloaded it, it had a cpg extension which my system didn't know what to do with. I had seen another mention of that sort of thing -- on the movie for the d20 Modern Modification trailer movie -- and there it was suggested to rename it with a .rar extension and then use winrar to extract it.
However that idea didn't work in this case, nor did .zip (in case it was Winzip needed instead or whatever) -- but noticing that you said it was a Bink file I tried .bik and that worked (since I've got Bink on my system). Don't know if other extensions work for other people, or if there's some other program I would need to play it as-is with the .cpg download, but that's my 2 cents on what worked for me, in case it helps anyone.
One more side note -- tho the movie was quite cool, you mentioned something about how much you had to reduce the quality -- no biggy as far as I could tell, endproduct-wise (not having a "better" quality version to compare it to of course) -- and this looks like it's from almost a year ago so you may already have thought of this for future stuff -- but seems like you didn't use any kind of zipping-up on this one (I didn't have to extract it, after all, as mentioned in my round-about discovery methods above). Or maybe bink is a compression mode specifically for movies? I forget -- anyway, if it's not, maybe you could get more in by compressing it (or if Bink is a movie-compression thing, maybe compressing it again, with Winrar or Winzip or whatever could help?). Then again, with what *very* little I've played around with movie files, awhile back, I do seem to vaguely recall I couldn't get things much smaller very easily... except maybe how you did (the "lower" quality version). If that's the case, then nevermind ;^/
Posted by Demangel ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-02-23 15:29:00
Hmm not sure why you only got 2-3 seconds of it, maybe you
got a corrupt download? I just DL'ed it and it is complete
and working fine. Maybe the vault did something to it
before but fixed it since then? Anyway try it out again,
it should be working fine now :)
Posted by Demangel ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-02-23 15:19:00
Hmm, Really? I'll have to check it, thanks for the heads
up! This is my first file on here, so maybe I did something
wrong.
Posted by Sage ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-02-23 12:57:00
Looks like it's only a partial file- only about 2-3
seconds are in the download. Looking forward to checking
it out, though...
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