Cinematic Contest #2 - Love Story

[CoBrA b]

Okay. Thanks for telling me what to do. Now I've encountered another problem. The Private Message doesn't have an option for attaching a file. So how do I send my map?

 

[Septimus]

upload to pastebin section and send the link via pm

 

[CoBrA b]

Ah, okay, PM sent. (Just so you know, I set the pastebin file to expire in 24 hours.)

 

[Septimus]

I notice a few map which have been submit contain more than 1 playable slot.

Unless you have the intention to make the cinematic a multiplayer cinematic (Multiplayer cinematic should not exceed 4mb), please remove those additional playable slot which serve no purpose at all because I consider it as a bug which violate the rules.

Notice : Extension have been provided, 3-4 more submission and I would open the poll.

 

[Nbah]

I suggest waiting for Avator to finish and starting the poll. I doubt anyone else is going to enter this competiton. There are far too many contests already.

 

[Thrikodius]

Hmm... I pushed the time pretty hard to get done before December 8th and now it's soon January 8th.

 

[Septimus]

I need at least 5 submission, it would be not fair if there is only 4 submission considering that it would be.. ugh*.. like a free reputation given to user just because they finish it...

 

[Nbah]

I don't think we will be getting anymore submissions 0_0 Seeing as that this thread was dead for week. And the only "real" amount of rep is first place. I mean come on 3rd place? Who really cares about 5 rep? So I think everybody will be eager to see if they won 1st place. I thought Avator was going to finish by now, but I think he forgot/left his project.

 

[Avator]

Nope, I'm still working on it. This guy has caused he some annoying issue along the way, which is why it's taking so long. Last few days I couldn't work on it at all since I was barely home then (new year stuff and some family things). If it's bothering people this contest is taking too long, then just start the polls without me.

 

[Septimus]

how many % from completion ?

 

[Avator]

3/5 scenes are completely triggered and all terrains have been made. Keeping issue-aspects in mind, I'd say I'm at about 70-80% completion now.

 

[Septimus]

Ok, i guess we can wait then. after that i would open a poll

 

[Nbah]

Avator, do you have any news on your map, yet?

 

[Avator]

Yes, but it's bad news: School caused me to be unable to work on it since my last post

 

[bounty hunter2]

Too bad. Hurry up

 

[Avator]

I'm trying. Just think of this as a "You can't force art" moment

 

[Septimus]

Relaks, just take your time.. my computer was at service; so you would have plenty of time to do it

 

[Avator]

I'm sick since friday. And I'll probably be for a couple of days more. Sick enough to be unable to focus on anything. No mapmaking, no schoolwork, no games.

 

[CoBrA b]

It seems like some higher force just doesn't want you to finish that cinematic. I'm sick, too, and feeling quite rotten about it myself cause it happened over the weekend, and it doesn't look like I'm going to get off of schoolwork. At any rate, I'm still rootin' for you to finish, mostly because I think your cinematic looks like a very good idea.

 

[Thrikodius]

I think Avator's hard work could be fatal for uss others in the poll.

 

[Nbah]

I completely agree T.T

 

[Thrikodius]

Another part in Avator's cinematic that will be dangerous is the voice of the bad guy. It's too awsome. ^^

P.S: post #222 (in this thread)

 

[Avator]

I think Avator's hard work could be fatal for uss others in the poll.

Don't forget that I had a lot of issues that had to be solved in a way that made it look 'different' from what I wanted it to be.

I actually shouldn't tell you about the person who plays the bad guy, but between the few of us: I think he's a bit of a wimp.

 

[Thrikodius]

Well mine is also different from my early visions. I don't think anyone has been able to make exactly what they first came up with. My cinematic making is limited in some ways since I prefer to keep as much as possible within one trigger. In this one I had to make a seperate one for the day night change.

 

[bounty hunter2]

I actually shouldn't tell you about the person who plays the bad guy, but between the few of us: I think he's a bit of a wimp.

I knew it.

 

[Avator]

I made separate triggers for each scene. It just keeps it organised for me and allows me to skip immediately to the scene I'm working on that I need to test. That saves a lot of time.

 

[Thrikodius]

If I do everything in one trigger I have to watch everything when testing. That allows me to find plenty of bugs, and it also reminds me to fix the bug I saw last time I tested it but fortgot to fix. XD

I have always made single-triggered cinematics. The first time I uploaded one to the hive, at least half of the comments told me how amazing that was... It's really just a matter of timing, nothing amazing about it at all.

 

[Avator]

Well if you divide it in scenes and test a scene when you think it's finished, you can see the bugs in there. Once you think you got rid of all bugs, you test again and if it's bug-free, you continue on the next scene and skip the ones you finished and marked bug-free

 

[Nbah]

Egh, I so wanna see who will win this. It's gonna be pretty interesting.

 

[CoBrA b]

Ditto.

 

[Nbah]

Any news, Avator? Have you started getting better? Are you working on your map H.H

 

[Avator]

No news. I'm starting to get better, but I haven't been able to work on my cinematic yet.

 

[Nbah]

Uhhh, is this contest ever gonna end. Maybe you can sumbit it half done Avator? Or maybe you can cut some scenes to the end

 

[Avator]

I've already decided not to make the battle scene last until the end of the track. I extended it as far as I could in a decent way and I still needed about 1 minute of battle material more... So that plan is off the track. Right now I'm trying to finish the Battle scene with the finishing blow, but I encountered a weird problem there. The killed unit (only playing the death animation) is placed at the position the killing unit should be and vica versa. If you want, I can send you the map for as far as it's done. I think the finishing blow part shouldn't cause any more problems but the current one. After that, all I have left is the chopper scene (a.k.a. the ending scene).

Possible/probably problems to encounter at the ending scene:

• Chopper flying height
• Alain flying height (when 'walking over buildings')
• Camera distance (when coming too close to a building or unit, it can suddenly disappear and make the unit float)

I've Already made the Credits 'scene' (and hurray, it matches the track perfectly! )

 

[Nbah]

Cool, let's see if Septimus will accept it like this.

 

[Avator]

He won't. Only complete submissions. All I can do is send the map for you to get a WIP, but Septimus will never accept it as a submission.

 

[Gilles]

So, uh, this is supposed to be done...
What's going down with the contest? Are we waiting for submissions?

Who are the judges?

 

[Avator]

Septimus is in charge of this contest. The only submission still in progress is mine. After that it'll probably be concluded and the poll will start.

 

[bounty hunter2]

Yeah, we were waiting for him for ages xD

It's Nbah, Cobra, Thrikodius, Avator and me, I think.

 

[Gilles]

Alright, thanks guys. Who is the judge, Septimus?

 

[Avator]

I think I know who's going to be the winner. I'm the only person who has seen all cinematics, so I know where I stand

Septimus is in charge of this contest.

Does that answer your question?

 

[bounty hunter2]

Yea, he took it over from Hawkwing.

 

[Thrikodius]

I think I know who's going to be the winner. I'm the only person who has seen all cinematics, so I know where I stand

It appears that you don't think you'll win. But I think differently.
The work you have put down will show in the cinematic and that could cause a pretty lot of members to vote for you. As far as I'm concerned you are the greatest competition we have.

 

[Avator]

You overestimate me. I think I've spend more time trying to fix stupid problems I've had while making it then I've spend on making the actual cinematic. But we'll see at the polls. Let us hope no more highly annoying problems occur, because I already don't feel like making another cinematic ever again after this one.

 

[bounty hunter2]

You overestimate me. I think I've spend more time trying to fix stupid problems I've had while making it then I've spend on making the actual cinematic. But we'll see at the polls. Let us hope no more highly annoying problems occur, because I already don't feel like making another cinematic ever again after this one.

Thats a shame. (Not making cinematics) Hey did I get you right? You are done? Or are you not?

 

[Avator]

I'm not done, but if you want I can upload a WIP map with what I do have completed.

 

[bounty hunter2]

Sure so that we see what are we up againts.

 

[Avator]

Ok, I proudly present to you: The WIP of Cecile!

Download here (File size: 11.6MB)

 

[bounty hunter2]

Downloaded I'l edit this post later with a comment.

EDIT:

Comment:

Taking in consdideration its WIP it is not bad. However unfortunatly there is a lot of work to be done, I won't comment any positive sides and will try to give you tips to improve, probably you already know you need to improve some things, but here is a list anyway:

- I can see the snow part from the towns building scene
- Static camera
- To much empty terrain
- People going through each another all the time :/
- Not so decent terrain in overall
- Big size
- The camera shakes in the credits making the floating text shake

I will in the end give positive sides afterall:

- Fine voice acting
- Kinda cool battle scene
- Nice models
- Cool story
- Music

You had a lot of time so no point in telling you the map is good just finish it :/ You still have to improve some things, so take some time. I hope you do manage to fix/improve it and that in the end it will be good as all the other submissions. So good luck once again in finishing it. =)

 

[Septimus]

Is this done ? if it was, I would start to post a poll about it.