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Discussion / Why do aliens hate us?

« on: September 05, 2006, 02:05:33 pm »

Yeah, umm . . . We've already worked all this stuff out. The broad-strokes plot is finished from beginning to end. BTAxis and I are working on implementing everything we can for the v2.1 version.

Regards,
Winter

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Design / Design:Intro & Storyline in Ufopedia

« on: August 29, 2006, 09:35:09 am »

I reckon this can look awesome with a few simple filters applied. Here is my 1 min hack job:
http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=laser2bw8.jpg

That's not bad. I'd use it. The filters do give it a bit more atmosphere and, dare I say it, dynamism.

Regards,
Winter

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Design / Design:Intro & Storyline in Ufopedia

« on: August 27, 2006, 08:57:38 pm »

Well... me. If you aprove the sketches.

Huh. Okay, I'll talk it over with BTAxis, but it might be a while -- I'm meant to understand he's away for a few days.

Its cleart that there cant be any comic artwork in Ufo as it is now.

It is? The old X-COM games had comic artwork, it's just a matter of what style you do it in.

It'd had to fit the bulky, gree-gray style of the GUI. The only option is: render pictures that look like the defeat/victory screen.

Well, if you're dead set on doing that, okay with me.

But first of all one has to create the concept. If you agree on a slideshow, then I'll take lots of materials on vacation and continue drawing.

I'll try and bring it to the attention of one of the project leaders, as it'd take a recoding of the intro sequence, and I'm still not sure exactly whom is the final word on  this stuff.

Unfortunatley the new one is longer and can not be read in the 1.06 minutes dawn.ogg offers until the fisrt interlude. Though there is a nice break at 1.43 aswell.

I write prose to be good, fun, interesting and informative. Not so much to fit the beat of a song.

. . . Oh yeah, and I've never even heard the song before, or knew about its existence! That counts too, right?

Regards,
Winter

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Design / Design:Intro & Storyline in Ufopedia

« on: August 25, 2006, 09:45:11 pm »

Hi Winter, I'll try this, but for me its important wether to continue sketching or not. I guess blending in 4 pics could be done in 12-20 lines of code, if I remeber OpenGL right. Not so quick drawing / rendering nice pictures....

So to me its a design question. I could be back in 3 weeks with some really nice themes for Intro and Outro, if they wont go to waste..


My concept:

I think the important thing -- as usual -- is not having 4 pics to blend. They'd have to be made, to a certain standard of quality, and who's going to make them?

Also, your intro text is outdated, I've put it through a significant rewrite and BTAxis has uploaded the new text to the wiki here:

http://ufo.myexp.de/wiki/index.php/Storyline/Final

Regards,
Winter

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Design / Re: Design:Intro & Storyline in Ufopedia

« on: August 25, 2006, 08:08:42 pm »

Hopefully I dont get banned for referring to the storyline, but currently the intro sucks. The text is fine, but the presentation is just annoying.
Also in the storyline.txt there is the comment : ufopedia entry - but none of it in  the ufopedia to be found. For a while I've been sketching for my idea for the intro:
The Intro-Sequence is chopped up into slides. Each of one supplied with nice artwork.  Beetween every slide is a fade and for the whole Intro background music (maybe dawn.ogg). Afterwards the slides can be accessed through a special "politics" branch of ufopedia, or through an already existing on (Developments).
Whuddya think?

Hullo, I'm Winter, the other half of the story team. You've certainly got a point -- the scrolling text is a bit naff. Trouble is, any changes are up to the coders. You'd probably have more luck posting this in Bugs & Feature Requests.

Regards,
Winter