Unofficial Tex Murphy

SeuLunga wrote:I noticed the mention of 10fps and that it caused the "stepping" feel to the movement. I for one have said many times on this board how I LOVED that movement, as I felt like I was walking, unlike Overseer where I felt hovering along the sets.

adrian`s "10 fps" was regarding video cutscenes, not exploration mode
so, i guess, your lovely "stepping" movement was caused by low frame rate

The one and only Dalton wrote:I am not convinced that the simple freeze is not still the best solution

i guess you`re right. here`s an example (1,2 Gb) of video idle animation - you can see it right from the start by making a call - it makes characters look like a bunch of slowpokes
but

The one and only Dalton wrote:I might have found a solution to the idling mode

i don`t know what you`re up to

what i`m really interested about, is how will npc look if placed in exploration areas of the game
in pandora they was just plane video sprites and nobody wants to see that in 2013 (ok, most of tex fans do, anyway). is there a way to make volumetric fmv characters which can be bypassed around to the point where you see their back without being shocked (or being shocked of how innovative it is)
remembering neo dodging bullets on the roof in first matrix - he was a real three-dimensional human in a cg world, but that was pre-rendered and i don`t know if it`s possible to do on the fly
but that would be pioneering for sure

and also interesting - how much fps (in video) was overseer dvd version. it seems kinda like 48 (and peter jackson`s hobbit) - making it look very soap-y

Watching the Blair Tex Project (yes I reused that joke) this weekend, it occurred to me that there are actually several scenes (eg Louie in Pandora Detective, after Chelsee leaves for Phoenix) of characters doing the standing-in-pose-waiting.

Anyway it also occurred to me that Tex is pretty much a quick-thinker and a lot of pauses with someone standing there, awkwardly blinking, may not fit the character and his repartee so easily.

Adrian has very kindly uploaded a decent quality version of the Overseer trailer to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd9gVLxCkNY

At the end, you get to see some BEHIND THE SCENES blue screen footage!

Plus, in Adrian's showreel, there's a startling, yet fleeting clip of a deleted scene from Overseer:

http://img127.imagevenue.com/img.php?im ... _160lo.jpg

Oh man Thanks Ian Regan!

Yeah, thanks ian!

I was loading that "startling" image and I was all like ooh whats it gonna be (because there is also supposed to be some controversial scene with Sonny too that was deleted from Overseer) and then after it had loaded as far as the top of Gideon's head this suddenly popped up, startling indeed.