Some animation stuff recently put together. Nothing spectacular (ie explosions and war), but some starship fly-bys and so forth. Check 'em out if you're interested. (DivX codec required - link on page)
Curse you, DivX codec.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Indeed. Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
Uno problemo...?
Posted by Jb (Member # 724) on :
Very impressive! I especially like the Nebula/Merced flyby and the Fleet animations, though all four were great. It's nice to see some different designs represented! Regards Jb
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Mac People have to jump through many many flaming hoops to make DivX go. Even then it doesn't work. Someone somewhere is reportedly developing a Mac DivX option and QT6 will supposedly support this, but I can't play your files on my mac, and I can't be arsed to set up my PC right now.
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
Sorry I didn't realise you were on a Mac. You could try the Alpha release of latest DivX for Macs, it provides full decoding capability, it's here:
[ March 29, 2002, 12:43: Message edited by: The Red Admiral ]
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
Damn this computer. I hate my computer, I know that I have all the programs needed but its says File Not Found or Unable to Load.
Time to get a new one... again.
From the pics I see, they're crappy pics but if I could play the animations I could say someting...
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Well my Windows Media Player wanted me to get back onto the Net to download some codecs. So I did - only the Merced&Neb and the Bigfleet ones don't work. I need "vids: DIVX decompressor" and "vids: DX50 decompressor". WTF?
HELP! What does that mean and where can I get them from?????
Posted by Jb (Member # 724) on :
quote:Originally posted by Matrix: From the pics I see, they're crappy pics...
If you don't have anything nice to say... Regards Jb
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
The pictures are only small sized thumbnails to basically [i]show[/] what the animation involves. The actual resolution of the clips is much larger.
To play them you have to first go to this page and download and then install DivX 5.0:
akb1979 - the two clips you mentioned were compressed with the latest version 5.0 of DivX. You'll need it to play them. Sorry to be problematic.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Red Admiral: To play them you have to first go to this page and download and then install DivX 5.0:
akb1979 - the two clips you mentioned were compressed with the latest version 5.0 of DivX. You'll need it to play them. Sorry to be problematic.
Hey, no problem - I'll go and download the latest version now.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Well, it kind of worked. I could see the two connie flybys and they were looking pretty damned great, RA.
Alack, the Next Generation Era DivX Encoder is apparently too advanced for my Mac's 21st century processing technology. Poodoo.
So I'll ask the fateful question: How long did it take to set up and render these guys? (I'm working on something I might share here someday and it's been 5-7 hour renders on a 45 sec sequence for low quality 15fps 400X213. That Dualie 1GHz G4 is looking pretty good right about now.) Anyway, what I've seen is looking pretty great, RA. You might try moving the camera a little more slowly. It will, of course take longer, but it tends to make these things seem larger somehow. (Thanks, ST:TMP Commentary Track!) You also might try a wider angle on the camera and pushing it in a little closer again to bump up that scale and emphasize the subject from the background (also helps DOF if you want to get into that).
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
The thing is there are just so many things you can do with animations, but these are just the first four. I've done five more since then, one being a redo of the large Federation fleet flyby. I've gone in to detailing the New Orleans for when it passes the camera, such as adding a shadow/detail effect in the windows and improving the nacelles and bussards.
As seen here, a couple more ships have been inserted bring up the rear.
The four new animations involve something I've wanted to do since I started in 3D - a large fleet of TOS ships on the move. I've done four experimental clips so far, none of which are flawless, hence I'm still working on it.
As for how long they take. The TNG fleet flyby took an afternoon to setup. It started rendering at about 7.15pm, and finished at about 1.30am, as I recall. So a little over six hours for that one. I'm using an Athlon 900, 512 SDRAm...
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
Couple more animations have been added, one being a revision of the fleet flyby, much better in my opinion, and something I've always wanted to see, a fleet of TOS ships.
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