Dark_Respite

And here comes the latest from Samuraiko Productions!

Issue 13 Trailer: What's Past is Prologue (Teaser/Trailer)

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Lack of giddiness and enthusiasm forgiven in the face of financial woes. Trust me, I know exactly how you feel. However, the sincerity is still there, which is good enough for me.

Michelle
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Damn...

Very, very cool. And very moving.

Michelle
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Okay, now as I cycle through these, I keep hearing for some reason the LEGEND OF ZELDA theme.

"Dee... dee dee dee da dee da dee..." And it has to be the MIDI version, not some full symphonic thing.

Or else the version done by Redefined.

Michelle
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*laughing*

All of a sudden I can hear the Vanguard lectuerer bellowing, "F*** THE RIKTI, GET THE CAT!"

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Aral does amazing work - still needing to make time to do that collaborative video with him...


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A Dark/Aral collaboration?!?!? DO WANT!

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Yeah, he and I have chatted quite a bit via email and YouTube PMs. Seems quite a few of our fans think we should be working with each other, but between his schedule and mine (not to mention him being in France and me being in the U.S.), it's been hard to coordinate. But we'd both love to work together - it'd be me coming up with storyline and suggestions for cinematography, him doing that phenomenal camera work of his, and Coffy doing the music.

Michelle
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Yep, it's official, you are trying to kill me.

Note to self: NEVER have anything in my mouth when I open a post of SlickRiptide's.

Michelle
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I think it also would help to have submission guidelines, so we know what we need to do to help. Sending a PM okay, but surely you need to see more than that and as submitter I'd have more questions such as:

Do I need a specific PM subject title?
How long of sample should it be? 100 words...200...1000?
Do I make a different file and link to it, or paste it in the PM window?
How long after I submit can I expect a response?
If my work isn't accepted can I resubmit?...If so, how long do I need to wait to resubmit?

Just basic FAQ/Q&A would help folks out a lot. I'm sure that's reasonable enough, right?

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We have guidelines written and repost them occasionally, but right now my thinking is we'll be far better served by having them in a specific place always visible and available.

Also several other thoughts kicking around to smooth out the submission process and make it easier and quicker.

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Might I recommend a stickied thread? Something with submission guidelines (formatting for files, contact email address if not via PM, file sizes, etc), what you'd need for event coverage, that sort of thing?

Michelle
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It would involve a TON of wading through my demofiles, but I will see what I can manage. You might also want to check out Scuzzbopper's City of Heroes Codex, which is the be-all-end-all coding Bible of this game.

Oh, one other small nitpick. Make your category headings bold or something in that list or put spaces between the categories so they don't all run together. My eyes keep spazzing out trying to read that list at that small of a font.

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Aral does amazing work - still needing to make time to do that collaborative video with him...

Michelle
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VERY spiffy!

Michelle
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*pulls out his cellphone*

Statesman here... what?! What do you mean, Positron has a date?! I didn't say he could have a social life! It was bad enough with Manticore, he never listens to me anyway, but Positron?! You tell him to get his armored a** back to the base RIGHT... NOW!!!

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Wow, there's some good timing between the music and the video. The night fight actually looks the coolest to me.

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*adopts a haughty, supercilious tone*

Did you expect anything less?

*then grins*

Michelle
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Niiiiiiiice!

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I wonder if I could actually film this...

*sigh*

One more thing to add to my to-do list.

Michelle
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Chalk up another one for Samuraiko Productions!

Dropship Down - Music Video

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Footage now available from the Virtue Server DROPSHIP DOWN challenge.

The meh-rez version can be found here on my YouTube channel, while the high-rez version can be found on the Samuraiko Productions website on the Multimedia>Videos page.

Michelle
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*laughs and promptly chokes on her Chinese food*

Damn it, Slick, now there's Lotus chicken all over my desk!

Michelle
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I understand the code problem with trying to set either a max or absolute speed, but I don't understand BaB's number of animations statement.

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You know what, I was wrong...we actually need 15-90 animations

Walk forward
Walk backward
Walk Strafe-Left
Walk Strafe-Right
Stop walking, transition back to ready

Times 3 for each body type: male, female, and huge

Times 6 for the various 'modes' to both cover the different hand/arm positions and to properly transition back into the appropriate 'ready' stance when you stop walking: Ready, Combat Ready, Weapon Ready, Dual Ready (used by katana and archery as well), 'Shotgun' Ready, and Shield Ready

15-90 animations needed to do a 'walk button'. (Or 105 if we wanted to accomodate the two-handed club stance as well.)

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*sigh*

Oh, well, it was a nice dream while it lasted. And at least I can make toons walk in my demorecords, which is the next best thing.

Michelle
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I had a mini-rant about this during my HeroCon panel presentation. I think my exact phrasing went like...

"Walking? You can't do that! We're heroes! We can throw BUILDINGS! But we can't WALK from one side of a street to another?! WHY?!"

Michelle
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Definitely interesting... do keep going, I'll keep reading.

Michelle
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And despite great risk to life and limb, the good heroes of the Virtue Shard were able to enlist wandering videographer @Samuraiko to join them, and commit to film their heroic efforts of bringing down 41 dropships, if memory serves.

Footage to be posted as soon as it is avaiable.

Michelle
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Welcome to the forums, Synapse! Please check your sanity at the door, it's safer that way.

Michelle
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Welcome to the forums, Sunstorm! Please check your sanity at the door, it's safer that way.

Michelle
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Use Leandro's SPLASHER program to 'change' the texture and color of your base to all white. If you do a search on how to 'green screen' here on the forums (in the Multi-Media section, if memory serves), you can use that to go for white instead.

Michelle
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