WFC2... new thread

[[Ishan]]

sent my presets already. would'nt get much time after 17th Apr, so i did my best with this much time

[jheriko]

Did I miss the deadline yet? If I contribute could it be one preset and one remix since I am so busy (lazy).

[eheiney]

Originally posted by WarriorO/TLight

New deadline: April 30th 2005[/b] unless all presets are in earlier [/B]

I've made four presets for this pack already, but I don't think they're exactly "remix-able", so I'm really contemplating even sending them in. What do you guys think?

[Warrior of the Light]

DenkenSieFurSich:
Please mail them to me and I'll give you feedback..
You could send all four of them if you'd like and we'll share ideas (through PM's, mail or whatever).

Question to all:
Shylent (known only by those who frequent #FF) wants to join.. Opinions?
Should we
<> Say no because he has never posted a single post here and since this is a winamp forums compilation..
or
<> Say yes because of 'the more the merrier' ?

[mysterious_w]

i say I am swamped with work (4 weeks left of school, ever), and will be unable to make a preset by the deadline.

However, I should be able to crank out some remixes as they take less time.

[Shylent]

WOtL: You can search for my posts. I have like 5 of them I bet. And I dont think that those presets are total junk, anyway.
edit: exactly 11

[^..^]

ok, what about that: shylent posts let's say 2 posts a day untill the deadline. Then we can call him a frequent forums member

Joking apart, as we already said in the beginning this project should be a pack made by the "more or less frequent ones at wa.com". And since i'm running into some problems finishing my work, too (like everyone does recently...) i'd also say the more the better. So we could still concentrate on the remixing part.

[Warrior of the Light]

sorry, shy.. must have missed them

welcome to the compilation!

/edit: reads theads.. I DO remember you!

[Shylent]

hehe, mr.Rattaplan! Anyway, could you please tell me how is the "remixing" part organized? Because I want to make some remixes, too...

Yea, and thanks alot

[^..^]

everyone sends in his work to wotl, who randomly forwards the presets made by two artist's to one participator. Then you have the opportunity to choose the presets you like most and remix them. Afterwards the remixes are also going to get collected and complied (together with the 'normal' presets) to one huge pack.

[Shylent]

Thanks for the help. It seems I've finally gotten a hand

[Warrior of the Light]

Tomorrow would be the last day to submit presets.
I'll be away until May 4th so the deadline will be extended to that day.
The 5th I will spread the presets.

C'mon people, I've hardly received any presets!!
Don't start discussing why, rather create presets for the compilation instead

[eheiney]

Just sent mine in.

What should be the deadline for the remixes?

[^..^]

going to send my preset tomorrow. (sorry i won't finish the second one in time... ).

for the remixes we should say another 3-4 weeks? Not too short, cause untill end of march i'll still have pretty much stress with my studies.

[jheriko]

Meh.. I missed the deadline... oh well. Can I still make the intro? Heres a little something I've whipped up. There is a little z-fighting but I can remove that by subdividing the tris a bit.

Who wants their name in 3D text?

needs latest ver of triangle that i didnt already have... so i've included it in the zip (its on devart).

[eheiney]

Originally posted by WarriorO/TLight
Tomorrow would be the last day to submit presets.
I'll be away until May 4th so the deadline will be extended to that day.

So you still have a few days to finish up anything you might have been working on.

Anyway, you could make my name in 3D text, but I think it's a tad bit too long.

/edit
The intro you've made is nice too. I probably should have looked at it before posting anything.

[jheriko]

I dont mind doing everyones names and some obscenely complicated animation method on account of its all just 3d models converted to gvm and the z-buffering makes the occlusion quite easy.

may 4th... that should give me enough time to finish the textured model preset that I am working on.

[jheriko]

Heres a slightly better version of that text, with some colour change and more detail and some different subdivision to hide more z-fighting. The W is still a bit messy and i need to subdivide it more, also i left a few tris inside of the N by mistake and sometimes they 'pop through'.

If anyone has any cool ideas for this intro let me know... as long as they revolve around 3d text i could probably work it in somehow

[jheriko]

maybe i should have waited until i got bored of working on this for a bit :P like now... heres how it looks now, i put a point light at the camera pos instead of the directional light and added specularity, these changes look okay because everything is subdivided so much, infact combined with the fadeout in the background i think it looks awesome.

feedback appreciated.

uses the same gvms as the previous ver (wfc2_w and wfc2_r)

[^..^]

hey that intro is awesome jheriko!
i don't know how much work it'd be. but what about starting the intro as it is and then moving the title a bit to the top. Now the names of the participants could appear from one side, stay a few seconds in the middle and then disappear to the other side. (Hope you get my idea.. )

So, it would be cool if you could add my name in 3D text either! Going to send my preset to wotl in 5 minutes!

[jheriko]

you mean something like this?

notice the almost zero z-fighting

i had to put the gvms in a rar in a zip so that they were less than 102400... i'm sick of pumping my post count with continual attachment :P

overwrite the old gvms with these. it colors the 'winamp forums' text gold

[^..^]

hey cool! that's what i meant!

But could you perhaps make the name appear a bit later?! Cause the two objects come too close in my eyes. I'd wait untill "winamp forums" is at the top, before the name should come in.

Nevertheless, the lightning and reflections are awesome!

[jheriko]

denkensiefursic, goddamnit! such a long name that i had to rar the file containg the model for it before i zipped it. :P still it looks all the more awesome with bigger words...

I havent subdivided that name yet so its very z-fighty, you can see how many triangles are there in some places.. i tweaked the timings and movement a bit more... tell me what you think.

needs the previous files

wfc2_n1.gvm
wfc2_r.gvm
wfc2_g.gvm
wfc2_w.gvm

i'll compact all the models into one file for the pack, or we could stick them in the subdir... whichever is prefered (one fairly chunky file or lots of small ones?) btw this is quite size hungry... its already about 2-3mb :P

[^..^]

Originally posted by jheriko
btw this is quite size hungry... its already about 2-3mb :P

yeah yeah... but it's just so cool! Isn't it possible in any way to reduce the filesize for the pack? I guess a 10mb packsize (containing all member's names as 3D-text) is a bit too huge, isn't it?

for the 'gvm files: i'd say there should be only one file in the pack, just to avoid confusion. Some unfamiliar people might think that those files are broken presets and wonder 'bout it (delete them etc).

[eheiney]

Originally posted by jheriko
denkensiefursic, goddamnit! such a long name that i had to rar the file containg the model for it before i zipped it. :P still it looks all the more awesome with bigger words...

You're gonna hate to hear this then: there should also be an 'h' on the end. denkensiefursich is how it should be. The forums wouldn't allow the last letter, only 15 characters.

But besides the point, when I open the preset I don't see ^..^'s or my name. The "Winamp Forums II" renders, moves to the center, then moves up a bit more, and then I waited... and waited... and nothing came. Any clue why this is?

[^..^]

perhaps you forgot to put the needed *.gvm files into your avs folder? And do you have the latest version of triangle.ape?

[eheiney]

I thought about that, checked everything I could think of. I dl'd the past 5 zips and put them straight into winamp\plugins\avs. J said he included the latest version of triangle.ape in the first zip so I don't know... I gotta feeling it's time for my 21st winamp reinstall.

[^..^]

good luck then!

i don't know what else could be the cause of it then.

[jheriko]

odd that it doesnt work properly. try getting the new globmgr from the model thread if you dont already have it.

that h wont be too much of a problem sketchup makes stuff pretty easy

[Warrior of the Light]

I'm back...

For the next deadline (for the remixes).. three weeks? four? or simply the end of the month again?

/votes for end of the month




List of participants:
-Intro: Jheriko

[ishan]
^..^
ASD5A
Denkensiefursich
Mr. Nudge
Shylent
Tuggummi
Warrior of the Light

[eheiney]

/seconds vote

[Tuggummi]

/me thirds vote

Although I only need a couple O'days with my nolife status, but that's just me.

[^..^]

i vote for a month for the remixes, cause i have something called 'real life' to care about (no offense). actually i have to care a lot about uni atm.

[Shylent]

I forgot to tell you something: I have NEVER EVER made a single remix :P

I'll try my best tho

[Tuggummi]

Well end of the month = month... sorta. Almost. Who needs 5 days anyways?

[mysterious_w]

Let me remix please, even though I've had no time or inspiration to make any presets.

[^..^]

ok tug, let's say end of may. also, can keep that in mind better

[Warrior of the Light]

:: End of this month (= May 31th) it is then. ::

Mysterious_W: the presets have already been spread, but I'll see if I can send you some fun ones.

[ASD5A]

could post who got who´s presets to remix.
i wonder who has to cope with my shit.

[eheiney]

It's a secret. That way when the pack is released, it's a surprise!