CSB intro

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Thu Jul 19, 2001 7:51 pm

well, I'm working on the intro now but it's not gonna be a flash animtion anymore.. I decided to go full 3D and then make an EXE with Bink. I'll post some shots of it later on maybe this weekend to let you all have a taste of it.

I'll warn in advance that it won't be exactly as it was in CSB.. infact it's going to be rather different .. more of an RTC intro than a CSB intro.

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Fri Jul 20, 2001 7:51 pm

here you are.. for those that are interested.
A few images from the upcomming animation...

Hope you like 'em!

http://chaos.zpc.cz/csb.html

cheers

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Jul 21, 2001 7:52 pm

I haven't seen the original intro, but this one seems atmosphereic just from the first four pcitures. Keep it up : )

Lol, I expect another SAR debate though : )

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Sat Jul 21, 2001 7:52 pm

actually, in the CSB intro there is the Sar symbol on the flag. That's how I knew it was the symbol for choas' minions.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sun Jul 22, 2001 7:52 pm

Are you going to post the original intro too for comparison?

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Sun Jul 22, 2001 7:52 pm

Well Gambit is doing the orriginal himself so I imagine it wouldn't be needed. He said he captured all the images for it already.

However this is going to be fairly different from the CSB intro there is going to be scenes in it that weren't in the CSB intro so the comparison may be a moot point.

Post by **Zyx** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 7:53 pm

Wow, your intro is very exciting! More, give us more!
This site will become a "must" for the DM fans.

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 7:53 pm

I'm going to upload the very start of the animation. It's not much to look at yet but it's the only moving part of this I've completed so far. it's also a test for those so inclined to test it for me. You should probably wait if you have a slow connection since really all it is, is a flight through the clouds with the starting credits. 30seconds worth and just over 4 megs so far. This thing even compressed will probably be 15-20 megs. for the good quality one and hopefully down to about 7megs for the lower quality one.

it's gonna be at this link as soon as I upload it.
http://chaos.zpc.cz/csb2.html

cheers

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 7:54 pm

COmbined with the stills from earlier I can see where this intro is going...it's great! The file ran fine on my machine (win98se, ati rage pro onbaord card, 128Mb RAM, latest codecs...) so all seems good

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 7:54 pm

Ati Rage pro? eeek, what's that uhmm 4 megs? well that's awesome then it should run fine on most other computers. The biggest issue will be how to keep the size down.. it's looking rather large so far.. only the first 2 scenes are done and the come up at about 5 megs.. I have annother 20scenes to do.. and they will be about 1-2 megs each.. so we are looking at the high quality one (640x400 high colour) being about 25-40megs and the smaller one (320x200 256) I hope will be at least half that. 12-20megs... that's still a lot!!

will anyone here be willing to wait that long?? for a cable or DSL user no big deal.. but 56k'ers will be at it a while..

Comments anyone, anyone here with 56k willing to wait for either of these. Ok all the people with 56k modems.. will you donwload the highres version of the lowres version..

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 7:55 pm

I was just joking about the ATI card.. I'm just not a fan of the rage pro.. it caused me a lot of problems. Back when I had one..

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 7:55 pm

With an unmetered bt connection, (which i use alot : ) ) as long as resuming downloads is supported then I don't mind the size (downloaded 70Mb mp3s befror...man, that's long!) - so that's one vote for don't mind from a 56k'r

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Wed Aug 01, 2001 7:55 pm

Travel to Mt.Anias and seek the new images there.. wooo Two new stills have been added just for amusement.

+Kyzra · Post by **+Kyzra** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 7:56 pm

it has a .cz extension. what's that and what do i need to extract/run?

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Thu Aug 02, 2001 7:56 pm

they only thing with a .cz extention is this web page..

it's a exe file.. just double click and it plays..

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 7:57 pm

more to look at.. one more image added to the intro stills. The first look at one of the corridors of mount Anias! Woooo..

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Tue Aug 07, 2001 7:57 pm

something new to see in the stills section.. I'm begining to feel like that little pink bunny.. g

+Lento · Post by **+Lento** » Wed Aug 08, 2001 7:57 pm

Hi Drake/Adam!

Guess who? Yeah it's me, Lento, Moo!

Hey I finally added that link to this
site in my links. Check it out:
http://Lento.cjb.net
or
http://welcome.to/Lento

Anyway I'm downloading your intro
right now...The pics looked pretty
cool! Keep up the good work man!

See ya mate!

//Lento

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Wed Aug 08, 2001 7:58 pm

heh thanks lento
moo

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Tue Aug 14, 2001 7:58 pm

the reason I'm not adding this into the regular area is because it's not complete (then again neither is the horse one but hey)

Dungeon Master Forum

CSB intro

CSB intro

you on drugs or something?? :)

moooooo-re! :)

Great Intro & Added a link to your site!

heh thanks lento