Oh, my, i23 is out, and it's time to pay the piper, Arcanaville!
For some reason both test and beta have been down all weekend, so I didn't have an opportunity to take care of this. The gaming gods want to draw out my shame, or possibly Television did it when no one was looking because there's just not enough people in the new project to torture yet.
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Somebody find me a picture of a hermit crab hiding in its shell with a "do not disturb" sign out front.
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I just find it funny that Arcanaville apparently "can't show her character's face" on the live servers. She's like a shadow, a wraith, a half-remembrance.
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It took a couple of hours to test things and set them up and then record them, and I didn't want someone walking into frame and forcing me to reshoot something. Even if they don't walk into frame, walking past can trigger all sorts of dialog from NPCs that generates pop up text which can also mess things up. I basically wanted an empty Pocket D to video in. And who goes to D on test in the middle of the night?
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It took a couple of hours to test things and set them up and then record them, and I didn't want someone walking into frame and forcing me to reshoot something. Even if they don't walk into frame, walking past can trigger all sorts of dialog from NPCs that generates pop up text which can also mess things up. I basically wanted an empty Pocket D to video in. And who goes to D on test in the middle of the night?
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I guess you were thinking "video" earlier than you let on.
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I would ordinarily not count that as a Blaster buff, so I would be ethically compelled to say no.
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Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
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It took a couple of hours to test things and set them up and then record them, and I didn't want someone walking into frame and forcing me to reshoot something. Even if they don't walk into frame, walking past can trigger all sorts of dialog from NPCs that generates pop up text which can also mess things up. I basically wanted an empty Pocket D to video in. And who goes to D on test in the middle of the night?
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Done deal then unless you think anything needs more clarification. I can't wait until Issue 25!
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Pretty much as soon as I was pointed to the thread, which is why I tried to get onto the beta server over the weekend it was down.
My first thought was a screencap, kind of like the screencap I posted. But then I realized that it would be difficult to properly convey what was going on in a still frame. I could add thought or speech bubbles, but I'm not fond of those in general. A short video sequence of that screencap to convey motion made more sense, but then I started wondering if that was enough to convey the entire story of what was going on. So I scripted a sequence involving walking up to Null, the "why me" emote, and then the worship emote. At that point I still wasn't sure how to convey Laz in there, but I figured I would figure it out when I had a chance to get on the server and experiment. I shot a bunch of sequences on Monday night, but I decided it just wasn't right without Laz so I asked him for his costume file, and then reshot it on Tuesday night and encoded and uploaded on Wednesday morning.
If the servers were up that weekend, I might have taken a bit more time, but I decided by Monday that it would be a one-day thing to get it out quickly, so there's two big glitches. One or two segments have mouse cursors visible: that's an artifact of mixing up some test footage and the final version. And when Laz ports in, I should be in the why-me stance and not standing, but I filmed that out of sequence so I made a continuity glitch. There's also a moderate editing error: Laz "glares" about two seconds too long: I made a mistake on the edit marker there.
All told, its about two hours of goofing around and trying to find the right angles and emotes, and editing down some, and then about twenty minutes of shooting it, cutting out the segments I wanted, and then splicing it together and encoding it for upload. I wasn't exactly sure how long I needed in advance, but that's a long time to hope a live server's Pocket D will be completely vacant without even a passing-through traveler.
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Someone used to give me free copies of Premiere (as in: a friend who worked at Adobe, not someone who pirated the thing) but since I don't use it professionally (or at all) I never bothered to load it on my current platform, nor can I find the last copy I got to load it. So what you see is actually done with Fraps to record, and then Virtualdub to mark out and save the segments I want, crop and splice them together, and then rerender into divx for upload to youtube.
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I think the important take way here is that once Arcanaville posts her picture, can we please get these options into the Options menu rather than from a stupid NPC located in one zone? Please? And put the difficulty sliders in the Options menus too, while you are there.
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How do you get a picture of an AI? Virtual composite male/female? Pic of a mainframe computer? Since we all know that Arcanaville is an unchained AI and not a fleshy. And, oddly enough, one who has caught the ire of Mod9. Giving away too many secrets Arcana?
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Done deal then unless you think anything needs more clarification. I can't wait until Issue 25!
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All we have is more mess rather than trimming unnecessary stuff consolidating things into one less obtrusive elegant interface that allows us to better enjoy the pretty Issue 17 graphical enhancements and particle effects of our powers.
"Mythical" is right.