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Carnival of Twilight Dreams

BigYeti

By BigYeti,
Posted on: 2008-03-29 17:02 in Base Construction

 

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Have you ever started a project and then gone overboard? This started out as a desire to make a Carnie themed base and then I went crazy and decided to give it some real "atmosphere"

Carnival of Twilight Dreams is a tiny base created after the prestige grant so I don't have much to work with here. The whole thing is created inside the Oversite center.

Carnival of Twilight Dreams

Entrance to the Tent Enjoy your stay!
Various Floor Shows Area Here Enchantricks wow's the crowd with some magic.

Games of chance are always part of Carnivals.
Ring Toss Game Sequence 1 Here we see some people playing
Ring Toss Game Sequence 2 What a throw!
Ring Toss Game Sequence 3 Tad hard there, look at that richochet!
Ring Toss Game Sequence 4 Toss from another player (different angle)
Ring Toss Game Sequence 5 Someone's just not having any luck
Ring Toss Game Sequence 6 Seems one of our customers is having an issue.

Fortune Teller: Fortunes Told here! Some customers are so meddlesome at times...
Consession Stand Refreshments galore

Another classic Carnival Game!
Dunk Booth Sequence 1 Seems we have a Celebrity Playing today
Dunk Booth Sequence 2 Not a very good shot is he? She better not mock him though...
Dunk Booth Sequence 3 Ohhh! Good Shot!
Dunk Booth Sequence 4 Down she goes!
Dunk Booth Sequence 5 SPLASH!
Dunk Booth Sequence 6 Man, that water went everywhere.
Dunk Booth Sequence 7 Heh, we forced her to work for us after recovering a specific item of hers from the Circle of Thorns
Dunk Booth Sequence 8 Semi NSFW: What they were all gawking at.
Dunk Booth Sequence 9 Whoops someone's angry at his comment it looks like...
Dunk Booth Sequence 10 Ah well it was only temporary and well worth the price!

Back Yard: The Artists need a place for some downtime between acts. Here is a peek inside.

Hope you Enjoyed the Show (All out, All over)

EDIT: See Post below for some clean shots and the overhead view and some answers for the above shots.

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/e clap, Excellent job! How did you get the NPC's into the base though?

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Halloween temp costumes?

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demorecord?

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In order to get all the people into the base I used the above mentioned method and did a lot of demorecord editing only. Then had one of the demoplayers do a screendump. Finally I sorted through all the dumps to find what I wanted to use. I ended up going overboard in that each of the two major animated sequences are little mini movies by themselves. The ring toss and the Dunk Booth.

Did anyone notice Mender Lazarus' "date" slapping him or Duke Mondragor having a hotdog The three meddlesome kids should be pretty obvious to anyone too. I figured it is a carnival so lets add some humor where we can and I hope they gave everyone a laugh.

Once Leandro's awesome Splasher is updated I'll try changing the hirano wall texture to the carnie tent texture and see how that looks.

What I'd have loved to do was replace some of the base items with some of the objects you find in missions but they are almost all bugged and don't show up in demos. Using the glowing green vats from the Supradine mission would have made a better dunk booth tub of course, but then again this is using only stuff found in the bases.

Anyway Here are more concise shots of the base without demo people added.


Overhead View Of the whole base.
View from the Portal In
Clean View of Ring Toss area. Stairs were added later as they don't block pathing.
Fortune Teller Entrance. You don't see this view in the above image.
Fortune Teller Room. Overhead
Floorshow Area FloorshowLooking from the Floor area.
Consessions Closeup
Dunk Booth Ladder
Dunk Booth View
Relax Room 12 Different angles. Looking at the couches
Relax Room 12 Different angles. Looking at the door

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Gee, it sounds cool.

Unfortunately:
The connection has timed out
The server at img184.imageshack.us is taking too long to respond.
Been getting that for over half an hour.

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Interesting I just tried one with img184 and it worked fine, probably high traffic on imageshack's site. Not much I can do about that

Only thing I can suggest is to try them again in a bit. seems Imageshack is experiencing some heavy loads on a few of its servers.

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It's amazing how much larger it seems with all the people in it. Good use of space for the theme!

 

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Base looks -awesome-... You very skillfully made the base objects look like they were expressly meant for your purpose.

...and the 'meddling kids' were hilarious.

Ruh roh!

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I love it! Been wanting Carnie walls and carpets!

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"Buggy" Awesome base!!

Great idea and follow through. It deffinatley will inspire many more folks to get their thinking caps out of the dusty attic and crank the switch all the way to imagination.

Great job.

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(Yes, I stayed up to look at your base!)

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Heh Silly! You should have gone to sleep first Thanks though BTW I sent Talek the demorecord of the dunk booth if you both want a laugh .... the splash effect is rather excessive but funny.

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I love it! Been wanting Carnie walls and carpets!

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Yeah same here. I had to use solid color banners to attempt to give it a more carnie look.

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"Buggy" Awesome base!!

Great idea and follow through. It deffinatley will inspire many more folks to get their thinking caps out of the dusty attic and crank the switch all the way to imagination.

Great job.

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Glad you and others liked it and let me know hehehe


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Base looks -awesome-... You very skillfully made the base objects look like they were expressly meant for your purpose.
...and the 'meddling kids' were hilarious.

Ruh roh!

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Thanks I figured this would be the perfect kind of place they'd snoop around and give everyone who knows these characters a good laugh

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It's amazing how much larger it seems with all the people in it. Good use of space for the theme!

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Never thought about that really. It always seems so lifeless and empty when I'm zoning in to drop off enhancements or whatever. I did notice in demo-editing that it did seem bigger just seeing each section by itself.

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awesome work there...it looks great!!!

 

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Excellent Job!

/clap

 

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That is COOL. /em hatsoff

 

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This is amazing. Exactly the kind of thing we want bases for. Great job, Djeannie!

 

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This is seriously amazing!!! Great job. I can't imagine how many hours that took. The detail is just something else... the slap was too funny. You made me want to go to a carnival just for the games/entertainment factor. lol /e standingovation

 

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Aye, Ex. Thanks. I wish there was a way to export/import room designs. I would love something similar in one of my alt bases.

 

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ROFL!! Excellent job, Djeannie!