Another Traveller Mini-Movie

[Jame]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
"I like, I like - one thing though: why are the lasers on each ship-class different?"

Because.

Why?

"Because."

Because why?

"Because."

Because why?

I could keep going, but I feel like sparing bandwidth today.

Keep the movies coming, just do like you said you might and put the credits either at the beginning or at the end (so that both the credits and the movies are uninterrupted).

 

[Jame]

Any news?

 

[Theo D Lite]

Andrew,

Others have said it already but it will bear repeating many times.

Brilliant Work.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Thanks!

The next bit involves building quite a few new models first, but there should be an update in a day or two.

 

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

This holds true that there are just not enough films that involve Starship Battles and Motorhead. This ROCKS! The Collision needs to look "uglier".

 

[Andrew Boulton]

It is a very small genre...

No update yet, but they do now have a home: http://www.cix.co.uk/~fubar/Traveller/tmm/

 

[Captain Bob of the LEXX]

MOST Impressive Andrew. You make it come alive. Thanks for the trip.
________
Buy vaporizer

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Zap! Zap! BOOOM!

I make it go dead, too

Glad you like it.

 

[Rossoneill]

Fantastic action Andrew .
I especially like the flip turn of the SDB when it realizes the broadsword got past it to the planet
It made Traveller starship combat come alive again for me.
Rossthree

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Thanks.

I kinda got distracted by Real Life, but hopefully there'll be more soon.

 

[Reg Redblade]

Andrew

The movies look fantastic - how long does it take you to put one of them together?

Keep up the good work

RR.

 

[TheEngineer]

Hi !

Very cool, Andrew.
Must have been a bunch of work...but guess we can be glad You did it

Best regards,

Mert

 

[Andrew Boulton]

"how long does it take you to put one of them together?"

The first one took about a month, working a few hours each day. I'd already built most of the models, which speeded things up a bit.

The second one's taken about six weeks so far, partly due to illness and partly because I've had to build everything from scratch.

Rendering can take anything from 30 seconds to 30 minutes per frame. I'm cheating a little by doing it at 15fps rather than 30 - most of the time you don't notice the difference.

 

[RainOfSteel]

I think it's pretty spectacular myself.

I have only one question. Which combat system would this battle have taken place under?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Whichever system would've produced that result

 

[Andrew Boulton]

A little update.

Again, appologies for the compression. I've picked up another 15Mb of space from Geocities, but they have a max file size of 5Mb, which doesn't help much.

http://www.cix.co.uk/~fubar/Traveller/tmm/

 

[hunter]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
A little update.

Again, appologies for the compression. I've picked up another 15Mb of space from Geocities, but they have a max file size of 5Mb, which doesn't help much.

http://www.cix.co.uk/~fubar/Traveller/tmm/

Drop me an email (grip@RPGRealms.com), I can probably arrange some space for you to host these.

Hunter

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Ooh!

 

[Andrew Boulton]

No comments?

Hunter, did you get my email?

 

[fredofmars]

At approximately 1:56 in the clip, one of the vessels is turning to attack the gunner. The first couple of times I watched it, I thought it was turning the other way (port around the hill). Thus I thought that the next piece where the vessel is underneath the camera was a completely different scene.

Additionally, after taking out the gunner on the beach, the vessel makes quite a sharp turn to port and up.