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[Fonzeh]

still need a youtube wallpaper background, in the submitted videos, i will put slappeys MGM logo on the lower right using mai epic screenflow or w.e app i decide to uze.

[Slapzy]

^Win
For the channel background, does it need to be tiled?
Or what sizes do you want it to be >.>
I really have no clue in this case.

[draconic74]

Do we want to go closer to bungie's or further away is the question.

In my opinion, closer.

If that animation took forever... think about the poor CE animators

Yes, its not easy to do. I would think if you have motion capture stuff it would be though. But this animation is far more complicated to do manually then some guy reloading a gun. Its a few hundred separating cubes, each individually animated.

I think for the channel background we just go with a mac background, possibly with the symbol Taxi made (I also converted that into 3d, although the model cannot be beveled or smoothed >_< )

Also, I don't think we need to have the symbol watermarked through the video. That takes a long time to render, apperently. We should just have a simple opening that the user can include in the beginning of the video (which is what I'm attempting to do)

[Hostbot]

Do we want to go closer to bungie's or further away is the question.

In my opinion, closer.

If that animation took forever... think about the poor CE animators

Yes, its not easy to do. I would think if you have motion capture stuff it would be though. But this animation is far more complicated to do manually then some guy reloading a gun. Its a few hundred separating cubes, each individually animated.

I think for the channel background we just go with a mac background, possibly with the symbol Taxi made (I also converted that into 3d, although the model cannot be beveled or smoothed >_< )

Also, I don't think we need to have the symbol watermarked through the video. That takes a long time to render, apperently. We should just have a simple opening that the user can include in the beginning of the video (which is what I'm attempting to do)

If 002 is alive ask him for help.

[Slapzy]

although the model cannot be beveled or smoothed

Why not?

[draconic74]

Because the edges are not smooth. I made a grid, then moved the points to form the shape of the symbol. I deleted all the extra faces in between and extruded it. Because the points where not perfectly aligned, the act of beveling creates extremely uneven round edge that looks ok using normal shading but absolutely dreadful when using the plastic-like material I created. I might try again using cylinders and Boolean operations.

[Slapzy]

I might try again using cylinders and Boolean operations.

Good idea.

[draconic74]

Urg... Using so many operations (about 4 per cylinder) screws the things up so much... It might actually be worse than before.

[Devious]

What about something like this?
The camera is moving backwards, many different logos and images from apps mods etc fly past, whan the camera is finally zoomed put you see the MGM logo on a background of all the images and logos,

[draconic74]

What about something like this?
The camera is moving backwards, many different logos and images from apps mods etc fly past, whan the camera is finally zoomed put you see the MGM logo on a background of all the images and logos,

You mean Eschaton? Seriously, does anyone use anything else? I suppose we could include Hexedit, swordedit, and Photoshop. But thats stretching it. even if we include everything, its maybe 15 apps or less (and thats including ANYTHING that has to do with modding on the smallest level)

[Sparky]

All the apps at tools.halodemo.net and all the mods at mods.halodemo.net. I'm currently working on uploading preview images from all the mods, so we could use those.

[Slapzy]

What about something like this?
The camera is moving backwards, many different logos and images from apps mods etc fly past, whan the camera is finally zoomed put you see the MGM logo on a background of all the images and logos,

You mean Eschaton? Seriously, does anyone use anything else? I suppose we could include Hexedit, swordedit, and Photoshop. But thats stretching it. even if we include everything, its maybe 15 apps or less (and thats including ANYTHING that has to do with modding on the smallest level)

Umm... I use just about every single one of these apps quite regularly.

[Hostbot]

Wow, hostbot likes <3

[Devious]

Exactly.
The images can be mod logos as well as avatars of some of the users.
We can do this.

PS. That's similar to fonzies new modding pack idea ain't it?

[draconic74]

Fine, although it means we will need tutorials for all of them at some point. I am only able and willing to provide for Eschaton and possibly some HMT.
And if I had application images for all of those if would be easy, except Blender likes to downgrade the quality of textures for some reason. The MGM picture was blurry... I think After Effects might have what Im looking for though.

Something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCCv4_S1rQ
But with them all flying backwards until you get the logo (would be nice to have a 3D model of it though...)


PS: Wings3D? Meh... Then where is Blender on that list?