Ambrosia Software Web Board: While I'm on the subject... #2 - Ambrosia Software Web Board

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Andrew Welch / el Presidente / Ambrosia Software, Inc.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

213 posts there for 11 days … and then he suddenly decides to cut it off and start a new one …

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What others can travel so far into so many universes yet remain so deeply rooted in their own?
[url="http://"http://marathon.invasion.tripod.com"]M:Inv[/url] and the [url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/bmarathoninvasion"]M:Inv Webboards[/url]

Got some bad news: I ran some numbers (average ship sprite size, estimated briefing and misc. pics, estimated mission sizes) and the plug will be around 22 megs. That's without additional music or movies, which I wanted to use heavily. Figure those in and we're looking at 30-40 megs easy.

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The Oracular Net would like to know your favorite color
[url="http://"http://www.axisnet.f2s.com"]=Axis Software Integrated=[/url]

Wow. That's big for a plug in.

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"That didn't sound so stupid before I said it" -Me
GR SN: Fire Eater
AIM SN: Fire Eater 27
Visit my plugs web page: [url="http://"http://www.equarians.f2s.com"]www.equarians.f2s.com[/url]

Is that before or after compression?
Stuffit can turn an 8MB Hera file into a 1.8MB .sit file...

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Formerly-Rampant Human-Coded AI

That was uncompressed.

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The Oracular Net would like to know your favorite color
[url="http://"http://www.axisnet.f2s.com"]=Axis Software Integrated=[/url]

Uncompressed, eh.
Well, a little compression might take it down 50% or more, so no worries yet.

BTW I finally got POV's movie-making stuff to work . It was a really wierd problem that I'm still not sure about (I think the files that I tried to render were corrupt, but I'm not sure), but I can make the suckers work.

Unfortunatly, I just realized that this still means that only models I've made will be in the movie (unless someone's a real editing pro), as the only site that had apps to convert went down . Maybe we can ignore this and hope nobody notices, the way Bungie did with the apparent lack of mover support in Oni.

Learn from the pros, I always say


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Formerly-Rampant Human-Coded AI

Hehe...I dont need to worry about the size with DSL...

(Im the biggest (unless pallas surpasses 80k and 39 roids planetarion playing ARES member!)

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This Vid is a bit like my beast; extremely long, and best enjoyed with a mouthful of nuts.
-Ali G.

[Well, I seem to be beaten, as I have only 61K points and 24 roids.
I do, however, have 230 Int and 100 Spi … I've also got an Eonium Lab
It doesn't seem to have updated my score to reflect these though -
I had about the same amount of points a couple of hours ago…]

I've always held that this plug won't be finished until I get DSL. I'm hoping that's sometime soon, but as of yet Verizon doesn't support my area (and hence EarthLink, it seems), nor does cable or satellite. However, we are a very wealthy town, and I'm expecting DSL to open up sometime in the near future

Editing Pro, eh? I can make movies and you can make movies with yours … it might be possible just to create large blotches designed to simulate ships when their edges touch (for antialiasing) or to avoid touching altogether. Otherwise, I don't know what the problem would be. Just take QuickTime (not the viewer, the thing they used to give out) and assemble the frames … and running a 24-frame Snapz movie recorder over it while playing the sounds would probably splice them together seamlessly.

To say "That's big for a plug-in" isn't really considering everything. This is a Total Conversion, which means it's supposed to equal or surpass the original universe in complexity (and therefore size). Now, when you consider that this will have ~50 verses (chapters in the original), then it doesn't seem that amazing to be more than twice the size of the Ares missions.

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What others can travel so far into so many universes yet remain so deeply rooted in their own?
[url="http://"http://marathon.invasion.tripod.com"]M:Inv[/url] and the [url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/bmarathoninvasion"]M:Inv Webboards[/url]

There we go … 90K.

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What others can travel so far into so many universes yet remain so deeply rooted in their own?
[url="http://"http://marathon.invasion.tripod.com"]M:Inv[/url] and the [url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/bmarathoninvasion"]M:Inv Webboards[/url]

[url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/fmarathoninvasionfrm7"]http://pub61.ezboard...honinvasionfrm7[/url]

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What others can travel so far into so many universes yet remain so deeply rooted in their own?
[url="http://"http://marathon.invasion.tripod.com"]M:Inv[/url] and the [url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/bmarathoninvasion"]M:Inv Webboards[/url]

I think the page is in need of an update...

Well, I want to move over to f2s, but I'm not working on it at all…

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What others can travel so far into so many universes yet remain so deeply rooted in their own?
[url="http://"http://marathon.invasion.tripod.com"]M:Inv[/url] and the [url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/bmarathoninvasion"]M:Inv Webboards[/url]

The plug's first movie is done, and if Pallas would be so kind as to send me the models in DXF format, I'd be delighted to do a second.

The first movie doesn't have any sound, but I'm not sure any is necissary. It's just one ship gliding in the general direction of another, and the only thing I could think to add is music (Sarg's department).

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Formerly-Rampant Human-Coded AI

Hmm, haven't gotten around to DLing your movie, or exporting anything. Between HW, finals, and GLTron, I'm pretty much maxed out.

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What others can travel so far into so many universes yet remain so deeply rooted in their own?
[url="http://"http://marathon.invasion.tripod.com"]M:Inv[/url] and the [url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/bmarathoninvasion"]M:Inv Webboards[/url]

8 Lightnings ponders the meaning of life, and the controls for GLTron...

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Subcommander g'Var "8 Lightnings" Krai'un

Second in command of the Escort Starbeam.
“Imagine if you will, you’re standing on a grade of finely processed salt in a salt factory. Now, there is a very large rusty blade flying towards you at a very high speed. Imagine now, the feeling you will have as you fall into that salt after you are run through with that blade.” -Marathon Infinity, Terminal 0, Page 2, You Think You’re Big Time, You’re Gonna Die Big Time, Vidmaster’s Challenge Edition.

Try the second smallest Board Size, the "Stronger" AI, and the "Faster" speed. It really hones your reflexes.

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What others can travel so far into so many universes yet remain so deeply rooted in their own?
[url="http://"http://marathon.invasion.tripod.com"]M:Inv[/url] and the [url="http://"http://pub61.ezboard.com/bmarathoninvasion"]M:Inv Webboards[/url]

Uhh Pallas, WHICH site are you working on for me to show Hamish?
I'd like to know that, to avoid embarasment.

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Formerly-Rampant Human-Coded AI

Oh, the f2s one. Tripod has those ugly ads

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"Once, just once, I'd like to be able to land somewhere and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel.'"
"I fail to see the humor in that situation, Doctor."
"Naturally. You could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mister Spock. But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork……"

Just a thought, has anyone asked Bungie their permission to make this plug-in? Just wondering how receptive they may or may not be now that they are owned my Microsoft.

- Acidtalons

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We plan to have someone they know better do that for us.
Reading Dune teaches one almost too much about politics.

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Formerly-Rampant Human-Coded AI

[This message has been edited by Fleet Admiral Darkk (edited 06-28-2001).]

You could have a flyby sound like in the Gaitori movie for ares.

Sigh.
Due to dificulties with transports and expire sequences, elites will be solely on carriers, and any other ships that don't land.

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Formerly-Rampant Human-Coded AI

..and other ships that don't land? Do most ships land?

Due to the fact I am going to school now, the only time I will get to meet you darkk, is straight after school - about 5 o'clock. For you, this is a bit later than 3 am... If you could make effort please? I would be the one staying up, but I can't because of school.