Stephanos

I guess it will be hard to find the right way and time to meet. I do not have ICQ nor MSN. Sigh! Moreover, Gryphon, when it is evening in Canada, it is late at night over here! So it could be done during the weekend. The place? Hummmm, there is one place that could almost be considered official (a couple of BCM meeting were already hosted there) and it is a webpage with a Java applet that would let us connect to IRC, but right now I do not remeber the right url. Let me find it and I will post it here. But this means that we have to settle a day and a time for the meeting. So, what do you think? I know it sound quite difficult. Anyway, as soon as we have the multiplayer patch, we will surely meet in space! C U in Space! (Vanethian, I am very happy to see you are using my greeting at the end of your post! I am launching a new fashion! )

Gryphon: good enough! Now that we are three we are a team! eh eh eh Vanethian: sorry for the delay! Now you have mail! C U in Space!

it may depend on where you put the action script... but I guess Tac will help you out better by recieving the file. Have fun with Flash! C U in Space

quote:Originally posted by Vanethian: Ciao Stefano!!!! Hey, awesome translation of my review you did!!! I tried to translate it as well, but i've done incredible grammar errors LOL Thanks! Well, actually I had my translation checked by SC before putting it online... (eh eh) I knew that who wrote it was a BCM fan and a player, but until now I did not meet any Italian posting in this forum, so I could not understand who the author could be. Now I found you! Do you know any other italian player?

WOW!!!! Another Italian!! Cool, now we are two... Ciao!

quote:Originally posted by demolition: BTW, i ordered BCM a day or so ago it should show up on monday YIPPIE!!!!!!! Today is the BIG day! Have fun!

Yessssssssssssssssss! Thanks SC!

No demo yet for the stand alone version. SIgh! But there is a plugin for 3D studio max (which I do not have, double sigh!). Anyway, I just found another software that looks like it could do the job as well: 3D Flash Animator, which is cheap and the demo is downloadable. You can find it here http://www.insanetools.com This evening I will give it a try!

Ehi, SC what's up? All those movies in just one night? Eh eh eh eh. Are you thinking to change job?

Well, what to say... It amazes me how all those things can be put in a game running on our PC and not on some NASA mainframes!!! But again, is it for real or am I still dreaming?? Wow, thanks SC, even if I'd better call my laywer, as I belive my wife will be a "little" upset when XP1 will be out!

Oh, so it was the animation. Well, as I said it is just an idea taken from the movie "Contact", right at the very beginning of that movie, only it was reverse: from earth to space. I did not use any 3d software, this is why it look kind of a cartoon. Sorry for that. Unfortunately I am still thinking if I should spend $200 for a software that would allow me to do some 3D animation in Flash, and since web design is just a hobby for me, it is quite a lot of money. All you see is just an easy 2d flash movie, it took me about one weekend to finish, and most of the time was spent searching the web for the right graphics (Nasa website helped me a lot!). I absolutely agree with you that it does not look like real, but for the moment that is what I can do with a simple 2d engine. Should I decide to buy that software, which is Swift 3D (does anybody knows it? is it easy to use?) it could take me a while to learn, since I have no knowledge of 3D graphic or animation at all. But I promise that I will work hard to rebuild this animation. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciated. I wish more Prime Fleet members were this cooperative. See you in space!

LOL!

Maybe I found some good music... let me try. Demolition, when you say 'comical' and 'out of place' are you referring to the text or to the animation? The text is just random words and sentences I put to show what it could come out of it. I agree it does not make sens. But if you mean that the animation is comical, please, tell me where? I can try to fix it.

On my opinion there are two ways this problem can be addressed. If the game is very complex (like BCM), meaning that you can do everything almost like in real life, then I don't care if the graphic is not the latest 3D evolution and my ship does not look like the one rendered in Babylon 5 or my character in First Person is not like those in the Final Fantasy movie. On the other hand, if the game is not complex (I was thinking to the old Elite, one man, one ship, few options, but still a great game) I would like it with the last graphic engine. I would really like to see those good old games, with the same plot, but with the newest 3D graphic available. But that is just my opinion. See you in space

Thanks cmdrs. Yes, I am aware of my mistake on Galaxy that should be plural (my English sucks, and I work in a large US firm!!!! Shame on me!!! ) Also, it should not end that way (abruptly with nothing but stars in background), and the text was just a quick idea of what it could be. I would like to ask for your help on what it should say. Maybe this weekend I will fix some of the errors. Stay tuned!

Thanks Gudihl! And sorry if we started to discuss in the wrong thread. I am moving my posts here: I am proposing a new Recruitment Poster animation in Flash! It's for Prime Fleet, maybe text need some fixing, but high rank cmdr of Prime could help me out on this. Please visit the following URL: http://www.lightandcolors.com/primefleetdraft/movie.htm After some nice comments by other cmdrs and a feedback by cmdr Demolition: Thanks to everyone. Cmdr. Demolition, I know that BCM is located in a small portion of a Galaxy, but I took the idea from the movie Contact (with Jodie Foster): right at the beginning of the movie there is a similar animation (obviously not done with Flash, but with some powerful 3D engine) but moving from Earth to outside the Milky Way. I was thinking that at the end of the animation I could stick the Recruitment Poster proposed by Cmdr Badgerius a few posts above. What would you think? [i tried to delete my posts i the Gallery forum, but I can't. Gudihl can you cancel them, just to clean up the thread for me, thanks.] [ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Stephanos ]

quote:Originally posted by Epsilon 5: SC, any idea about making toy bc ships? I would buy them all!!! Great Idea!

Thanks to everyone. Cmdr. Demolition, I know that BCM is located in a small portion of a Galaxy, but I took the idea from the movie Contact (with Jodie Foster): right at the beginning of the movie there is a similar animation (obviously not done with Flash, but with some powerful 3D engine) but moving from Earth to outside the Milky Way. I was thinking that at the end of the animation I could stick the Recruitment Poster proposed by Cmdr Badgerius a few posts above. What would you think? [i know that Tac requested not to post comment but only posters, but where should we comment them? Should we open a new topic?] [ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Stephanos ]

I would like to propose a Recruitment Poster animation in Flash! It's for Prime Fleet, maybe text need some fixing, but high rank cmdr of Prime could help me out on this. Please visit the following URL: http://www.lightandcolors.com/primefleetdraft/movie.htm (It should not end with the empty stars pic, but I will fix that mistake soon, maybe this evening). Hope you like it! See you in space

Yeah! I like them too!

Thanks cmdr! I do think that your opinion on the subject will be greatly apreciated. We need the help of every commader of Prime Fleet, and if it comes from high ranks then it is much more important. The more people we get involved in this, the better Prime Fleet HQ homepage will look. Hope to hear soon from you on Prime's pages! See you in space!

I am so happy you were helped out. If need some more help I am available too, but there are many other members here much more experienced than me as you could see. Anyway, if you are in trouble, just post your problem or write us. We are a great community, growing everyday and enjoying exchanging ideas and opinions on BCM and many other issues in this forum. Welcome in the universe of Battlecruiser Millenium! See you in space! (Oh, by the way, if you want to enroll in one fleet, Prime could be your choice! Delta Wing is searching for skilled commander! ) [Edit: Almost forgot! You should insert a link to your System Info Profile so that, if you need tech help, we could understand what kind of PC you are using, and tell you what could be the fix] [ 12-21-2001: Message edited by: Stephanos ]

I know... but I saw that people check only their own wing news, and sometimes not the general Prime Fleet pinboard. Also, it is a discussion about the whole Prime Fleet website, so also Beta is in it! And since it is getting clear that Fan websites will become more and more important in the future, I think that every single member of Prime Fleet, and then Beta Wing members too, should participate to its discussion. The fact that the topic name has started from the restructuring of Delta Wing pages does not mean that it is only for those wing members (Delta is in brakets). I was trying to get every Prime Fleet member's attention. If you (other admin or SC himself) feel that this announcement should not be posted here, please let me know, and I will delete it immediatly. But once more, since the development of good fan sites (The new forum homepage and Prime Fleet among them) is, on my opinion, a very important issue, I think it was a good idea to post that announcement here. Sorry if I was wrong. See you in space. [ 12-21-2001: Message edited by: Stephanos ]

About such quick stops that seem so unrealistic: Star Trek's USS Enterprise countered the problems about G-Force from acceleration and decelartion by using a Structural Integrity Field, which maintains ship rigidity and monitors the gravitational effects within the ship to counter dangerous G-Forces. So we could assume all ships in our universe have same device that permits such an abrupt stop. Moreover, in a physics model (by Ken Olum continuing the work of Miguel Alcubierre) objects and signals (like radio signals or trasporter beam) do not need to actually travel faster than light. Rather the curvature of spacetime is such that one can arrive quickly at distant places using sub-light speed. In his work the space behind a starship is expanded and contracted in front of it. The ship would rest in a "warp bubble" between the two spacetime distrotions. The results of his theory would be a wave in spacetime along which the starship would travel almost surfing along the displacement wave. The idea allows for faster than light travel because the vehicle does not need to accelerate and so no relativistic effects would effect it, the ship will never attain high speeds. A very interesting side effect becomes that the vehicle and crew would be weightless as we have discussed the ship suffers no acceleration and given the principle of equivalence, acceleration and gravity are indistinguishable. Given that there is no acceleration and the risk of injury due to extreme G-forces of acceleration and deceleration no longer exists . Well, this is what I could find on the subject. It is all real, even though theoretical. See you in space

Ok, last decision. I will wait till LotR arrives here in Italy, and then rent an entire movie theater all for myself (and maybe some friends of mine) e watch it again and again and again....