Movie Battles II - Battle Over Coruscant Preview
In an attempt to keep everyone updated, here is another update on Movie Battles II. Similar to that of the Death Star RC2 preview, we now have a preview for Battle Over Coruscant by Darth NormaN.
Hopefully we will see a release for this beauty sometime in the future, just gotta pester Norman a bit more. :) For now, enjoy this little preview with some screenshots from the video!
Streams
Youtube (SD, HD) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3C7asisu3A
ModDB (SD) - http://www.moddb.com/mods/movie-batt...eview#imagebox
GameTrailers (SD) - http://www.gametrailers.com/player/u...es/298248.html
My Site (HD) - http://macesmapping.map-craft.com/my...bocpreview.php
Vimeo (SD, HD) - http://vimeo.com/2592258
Xfire (HD) - http://www.xfire.com/video/5556b/
Screenshots
As with the other (and future) map preview videos, these are exclusively for streaming. This video will not be available for download.
Have fun,
-Mace
Republic Cruiser - Data Core
Yes, Republic Cruiser is still in full production after so long. And I hope to finish it soon enough. Till then here is a small preview of the Data Core featured in the map.
This is a key area in both the Siege and Movie Battles II versions of the maps. It is a spawnpoint and a major intersection between 4 routes in the maps leading to extensive battles in this area. In addition to being in those 2 maps, this area is also featured in its own duel map as well as the full RC. Who knows, maybe I'll make more surroundings of this area creating a small FFA as well. We shall see in time. Special thanks to Plasma for one of his Crates, the texture for that crate as well as the carpet and the big lights on the wall. Thanks!
Now have a look at the screenshots!
Republic Cruiser - Data Core
Enjoy!
-Mace
P.S. Be ready to see how I created this area in the making of MBII Republic Cruiser - Episode 3!
Movie Battles II is Pulsing!
Downloads/Streams
GameTrailers (SD) (HD)
Youtube (Click)
ModDB
(Click)
On Site (Stream) (Download WMV) (Download MOV)
Filefront (WMV) (MOV)
Vimeo
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Xfire (Click)
Today I was a little bored and found I had found a little heart beat audio file on my PC yesterday so I decided to create a small teaser for Movie Battles II
So in about 2 hours here is the result. There is mostly some traditional Movie Battles II footage, with a small preview at Battle Over Coruscant and Republic Cruiser
-Mace
Youtube going High-Def
So if you have not noticed already, Youtube is finally going into the High-Definition area.
Starting soon, they will be offering full 720p High-Definition video streaming. And for those who have not yet noticed the pages are already set in their 16:9 format.
Actual HD has not been introduced on the pages. However, on the select videos that were uploaded in atleast 720p those are already fully converted into their HD version. As well as their standard and High quality versions. This means, almost every video I have uploaded thus far is already converted, and I have tested this and it does work. (Currently works only on embedding)
You can see the test page HERE, this contains all quality versions to show you the difference between them.
-Mace
The Creation of Movie Battles II Republic Cruiser - Episode 1
Here we go, another video for your eyes to stare in awe at.
Here we have Episode 1 (Of about 6) showing the creation of the Movie Battles II version of Republic Cruiser.
The first episode that we have here shows how I took the Side Hangar of the original Republic Cruiser (Actually took it out of the FFA version of the side hangar) and put it into Movie Battles II with tons of optimizations, fixes and making it MBII compatible.
Some of the things you see in this video is me taking out random entities that are not at all needed in the MBII version, to start off with. Then it heads on to things like Hinting or blocking things that are not in your line of sight (FPS helper) as well as some brushwork optimizations creating less t-junctions and tris. However, in this video you do not see everything I had done on this area, the whole area took about a day to get fully up to specs. The footage you see in the video is only about 1 hour of that work.
There were a few issues in the video, like the gunship script in-game shot being choppy for some unknown reason, so I know that is there. And then the random spin around of the camera in the walkthrough in-game shot. The second one was caused by Camera Battles II (pugmod) whilst being in-game. One of the reasons we haven't released it yet is cause it can be buggy :)
This video does not fully show all modifications to the area, it shows a brief amount of each aspect to show everyone what is going on and keep the video time down.
Stay tuned more to come soon!
-Mace
Still moving forward.
I really need to start finding time to update this site... man.
Anyway, since it has been, again, a pretty good ammount of time without any updates here is a few.
I am not going to post any map updates but I am going to post quite a bit of video updates (Incase people have not been checking my video section)
First video we have here came along with the release of Movie Battles II Release Candidate 3. This trailer is directly for promotion of the newer Arc Rifle weapon. I, personally, thought this video turned out a very well. It was even the first Movie Battles II video to be featured on GameTrailers.com in High-Definition (And the first mod that I know of). This video was made more of a Thank You towards Wildebeest for adding Pugmod (or CameraBattles II) to MBII, I promised this to him for doing that for me. Ended up pretty good :P
Here is the second video, this one is a map preview made specifically for Youtube and ModDB, however since I made them we have a High-Res version of the video on the site. The video itself showcases Frosts new Death Star Escape map which was featured with Movie Battles II Release Candidate 2 release. All in all, it took about 2-3 hours to make in total so its nothing that specially, but again I thought it turned out really nicely.
I hope you enjoy this as well, so have a look!
The last, and oldest video, is the feature in MBII Wildebeest had added for me. This video does not showcase all of the features added, it focuses on the Spline Cameras. Enjoy!
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This is not all, however. Some may have noticed, some may have not, but I am now an Advisor to the JKA Galaxies mod. I have contributed some tiny things but not enough to become a full developer. That may come in the future. For the mod I have put together some videos showcasing some of their first features (Videos generally took about 10 minutes each) so they aren't anything truely special so I will not show them.
I should have way more posted soon on a map standpoint. I am waiting till I finish some more things to get some interactivity videos and new map screenshots up on the site. Movie Battles II version of Republic Cruiser has currently been my main focus. There has been an insane ammount of features, interactivity, and much more added just for the MBII version. Some may leak into the base JKA version in the future. Kashyyyk: Order 66 is also second on my priority list. As well as a few more MBII videos with I cannot disclose what they are.
Stay tuned more to come soon!
-Mace