Well its nice to have a showcase for the special FX alone, many people overlook what the FX team can do, it will take out the anticipation of what things can look like but you can get to have it taken out ingame anyway. With the amount of hardwork involved, Ill be tempted to vote for it "when its completed" and not before 
I dont know how you do show all the effects as one toon or in what way other people assist you, but I have a lot of toons high level and would help as long as I dont have my toons shown. I love anonymity and rp a bit.
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Well its nice to have a showcase for the special FX alone, many people overlook what the FX team can do, it will take out the anticipation of what things can look like but you can get to have it taken out ingame anyway. With the amount of hardwork involved, Ill be tempted to vote for it "when its completed" and not before
I dont know how you do show all the effects as one toon or in what way other people assist you, but I have a lot of toons high level and would help as long as I dont have my toons shown. I love anonymity and rp a bit.
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It's done with "simple" demo editing (Actually not all that simple with all the current bugs in demo playback). Basically I take an in-game demo of someone using all the powers from their sets, extract all of the animations, power FX and reactions and insert them into a stock template that I've created with Spad and Statesman under the Atlas statue.
Then it's just a case of playing back the modified demo, recording it with Fraps, editing it together in Premiere, exporting the video uncompressed and then re-encoding it with Staxrip to get a reasonable file size.
It takes me about an hour per powerset, give or take.
Simple 
Currently I'm looking for Brute powersets that aren't already covered by one of the Tanker or Scrapper sets, Dark Armour for Scrappers and I'll shortly be starting work on Stalkers.
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Well when I get time, shall I put as many toons as I am prepared to do and put them in Atlas on test for you to demo record all at once?
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All you need to do is to record a demo of your character(s) using their powers - it doesn't matter where or when. The only important thing is that attacks and other powers that affect mobs (Debuffs, end recovery powers, targeted heals, etc.) are recorded hitting the mobs.
If you need to know anything about recording demos - take a look here for a primer: http://www.cityofheroes.com/community/demorecord.html
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I'm intersted in seeing these, but is there a reason that you don't make these avaialble in a more common format (that will interface with windows media player or realplayer) rather than putting them up in a form that I'd previously never heard of?
I can't hear any sound. Do your clips have sound or it's my fault?
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I'm intersted in seeing these, but is there a reason that you don't make these avaialble in a more common format (that will interface with windows media player or realplayer) rather than putting them up in a form that I'd previously never heard of?
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There isn't any audio on the clips for several reasons, which I won't go in to, but it may well be added in future.
The format choice was one of sanity. x264 was the only way to get 640x512 resolution with decent quality at a reasonable file size (3-8Mb). An Xvid/Avi combination was adding up to 2 or 3Mb to a 3Mb (With x264) file; firstly I don't have anywhere near the hosting space available to accommodate that and secondly, I didn't want people to have to download huge files in order to watch them. It's the same reason I didn't stick them all on Youtube - there's no point in doing it if people can't actually see the powers properly because of poor quality and/or low resolution.
I won't speak for Realplayer, because it's pretty awful, but WMP at least has no problem playing back the files as long as you have the codecs installed, as with any format (WMP won't play Xvid, Divx or any other common format without the codecs installed anyway) and if you don't want to install the codec, for whatever reason, you can always use VLC (Which is under 10Mb and completely standalone).
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I understand. No problem, just wasn't sure if it was my player or not.
My question was about the clip's sound and not the choice of format if you remember, but while you're mentioning it, you may want to think to use Stage6 next time...
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http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/sh...;Number=902730
Not sure if this counts as Creative or not, it certainly took a fair bit of [censored] about to make it look right, so it probably does.
Anyway, should you visit http://www.spad.co.uk/showcase/, you will find videos detailing all of the active powers available from the various powersets in City of Heroes/Villains. Currently only the Tanker powersets are available, however, I've almost finished the Scrapper sets and I'm also working on Brutes (although they've been less then forthcoming when it comes to providing Demos). My ultimate aim is to include all powers from all sets and maybe the APP/PPP/Temp powers as well.
After reading a request for something similar posted in the Tanker section of the boards, it occurred to me that there isn't anywhere where you can go to really see how any given powerset looks or acts without actually levelling it or knowing someone with that set who has.
So that's my aim - anyone who wants to make a Toon but can't decide on the powersets can now get an idea of how all the sets look and work. It's not perfect, some of the reaction shots aren't quite right for various reasons (Knockup/Knockback is a [censored] to fake in demos), but by and large they're as accurate as I can make them.
Comments and criticism are, of course, welcome - as are suggestions for future additions and improvements. If you'd like to help out, please see the threads in General Discussion for Scrappers and Brutes and keep an eye out for other ATs in the future.
Thank you to everyone who has supplied material for this, you've made my life a hell of a lot easier.
Finally, many thanks to Statesman for taking so many hits for the team (Watch the videos and see
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