Yep, it's now time for a new update, surely the last before
a while, if no one replaces me asap. Indeed I enter soon the preparation class
and I wont have any time for leasure and computers. So here is a report of the
current RMP progress, of the WIP and finished works, of what has to be done
and how, and of the last news about the RMP and the MBN.
First of all, you may have noticed that Bu's temple had become very long to
load for some months, and I thought free.fr was experiencing problems with the
bandwidth. But actually, they were just decreasing more and more the power of
their php3 servers, in a way to finally remove them. So I had to recode the
file detection engine of Bu's temple for it to work under php4, since some functions
didnt work anymore in that version of the servers. But now it's done, and Bu's
temple has never loaded so fast, that's excellent when you know the amount of
operations the server has to do in order to bring you a listing of links toward
the creations without any broken one. I hope this system will continue working
during the next years.
Warning : the "auditions" page is still long to load, that's
normal since there are lots of sound samples embedded in the it, however if
you dont want to have problems, take care to close your running audio applications
(winamp, media player, quick time...) before loading the page, else the ActiveX
controls may bug and make your explorer crash. If you still dont manage to load
the page, tell me and I'll add some systems to have the possibility to load
a lighter page, with just the links toward the samples.
Also, there is now a new page dedicated to the overwiev of the grounds modelling
work. You'll find there the listing of the grounds to model with their priority
(no need to model the scenes that may not appear in the movie), and I invite
you to immediately subscribe in this page for the scenes you've begun to model
or the ones you'd like to make now, just there : Grounds
creation page.
Cherry on the cake, we also have now our own Tutorials
page, with some kewl home-made modelling technics from DF and some tips from
me.
As you may have noticed, the RMP forum has been quite quiet recently, and even
if we could see some awesome screenshots on it, eventually Bu's temple didnt
grow up very fast. This is due to several reasons, and I invite you to read
Darkflame's RMP report for more infos on that
slow down. I gotta add to those ones other reasons, like the fact that most
of the easy models of the game have been made now, so the modelling work requires
more time and skills, because the numerous models left are characters or entire
scenes. Furthermore, the rare people that worked on models have had problems
with their web connection and other stuffs like that, so it's currently very
hard to get the wip/finished models to put them on Bu's temple.
Nonetheless, there have been new models and creations and Bu's temple, since
the last update. As usual you can see them on Bu's temple, in the "New
files" section, as soon as I've uploaded and linked them. But have first
a look at the Project progress page to see some
important new creations.
And for the good continuation of the RMP, a new Instructions
page with all the infos on how to work and to upload your creations (additionnal
infos in the Upload
instructions page), and the Audition
quotes page for all those who want to be voice actors in the movie
"The
wise forgives, the dumb forgets" ©FP 2003
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