~Cinematic Main Menu Mods - Finished: 1

[CorinthianMerchant]

[video=youtube]http://youtu.be/VHeHtTEnXRg[/video]

Nave & Archives. Do it!

[Statyk]

What parts of the Nave and Archives? There are two wells in the Nave, i3670. I was thinking of having a straight pan from Agrippa's Room to the level door at the end of the cell block.

[i3670]

The one on the upper floor with the ladder. Right at the start of the map.

[Statyk]

Just a quick update. I'm finally done "mapping" the Entrance Hall in Maya. I wanted to make sure all materials and split models worked and were in proper place after freezing-reseting their transformations (making every object in this model's point of axis at 0,0,0, rotation, 0,0,0, and scale, 0,0,0). So I exported it, ran it through ModelView, and everything turned out perfect <3. Check it out. I imported it into ModelEditor and took screenshots of specific areas.

NOTE: There is no light nor billboard yet as I need the bone to attach them to. The lighting will be done in the final export (export that involves the animations)

Spoiler below!

[Unearthlybrutal]

Cistern Entrance - rotates 360 degrees while looking towards the middle, slowly moving up to the top, then back down. S'beautiful.

I thought the same thing and then I saw your post

[Statyk]

Note: I think for now, I'm going to stick to one area, the general Entrance Hall. When I get this working properly, I'll think about adding areas, or just doing specific area downloads rather than having it cycle through them all. So you can pick one of your favorite areas... Right now, the Entrance Hall gets the first serve.
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Well... I got pretty close. The animation runs smoothly, the lights attach correctly. The problem? The objects within the animation seems to disappear at points. You can see during the animation, the object still moves as the billboards continue to flow correctly... But something is wrong with the rendering. It happens somewhat in random locations. =\

LIGHTING IS INCOMPLETE FOR TESTING PURPOSES!
Check it out:





Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Rapture]

That is pretty awesome, but the camera feels "laggy" like if the fps was below 20. Can the animation be made to be any smoother?

[The chaser]

ALL PRAY FOR STATYK AS GOD!

[Statyk]

@Rapture
Fraps slows it down a lot for some reason. When I don't have Fraps running, it gets to about 30fps. With fraps running, it gets to about 15fps... But I'll try changing the animation framerate in Maya and see if that fixes it.

@Chaser

Spoiler below!

But thank you anyways =P

[Statyk]

Well, I got it to a smooth 60fps... So that was fixed. But the objects still randomly disappear at times... alshdfalskdhflsajhdflsfdj

/ragequit

I'll have to experiment...