Does anyone think this is a good idea:

*prepares to be flamed by certain trolls*

A map where you load as sp and it goes to a movie using ai and lots of scripting. Feature length: 30 mins- 1 hr and a half depending on how complicated it is

If I were you I would just invest all that effort into an actual SP. That way the player can interact with the plot line and the experience will be somewhat varied each time, as opposed to exactly the same each time with no input from the viewer.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Feb 5, 2011 at 02:38 AM

I mean, does anyone think this is a good idea and would like to see something like it in the future

@elefant
perhaps that could be a variant of it, i dunno

Halo's ai acts differently every time it plays out, so there's no real 100% guarantee it would work.

ya i know. I was wondering before how bungie does their cutscenes. Do they do it once and record it or are they just so pro it everything works perfectly

it's possible but who the hell wants to deal with halo's terrible cinematic system, which apparently even lumoria was having problems using

you'd be better off just rendering a video from the 3D software, making it more available to a wider crowd

Translation:
It's technically possible, but not plausible. You would have to use animations though, and script them in. Lumoria did this, you can look at that.
If you're a better animation than than the TM Lumoria team, then you could, but if you could animate that well you might want to make it entirely in your 3D software, where it would look better.

What? That's a very personal attack. I'm not a stupid person just because I think this could be done better through animation.

Thats not to hard than. :P

this

Also if you plan to make an entire animation ingame movie, good luck finding an animator. (its pretty much impossible to find a decent one)

Not technicaly true, I know about 7 decent animators. animating isnt so hard. heck i can do it. all you really need is a rigged biped and some basic pivoting knowledge or even if your lazy like me just download the animations from the net.

I don't think you understand my standard of the word "decent".

lumoria didnt have advanced animations so i guess i don't.

Was I talking about Lumoria? No.

Lumoria's ending animations was done by Shade and quite frankly they suck. If you think hes decent, tell me why those weren't. If you can do "advanced animations", please show me.

We also currently have back our good animator who did the vehicle animations and the bridge cut scene animations, so uhh

I already did that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnpk-ziDodk

i just figured you were. since you usually do. and now we are it looks like. since you want to discuss your old teammates that are back. i was just stating an opinion on whats decent and not. and used an example. heck i couldve used another single player map but i didn't.

I haz to agree

You agree that you're IQ is below Zero? Lol.

Is this why you didn't like my previous post? Because I was trying to put Lumoria in a better light by translating a comment.

So much win. It looks as though i won the bet.

outside bet. :P

He was referring to Slayer as being incorrect, not you. And no, the average IQ of people on this forum is probably relatively low considering their posting skills and they way they handle things on a online forum...

Lol, I am not sure if you are trying to insult me with you're post.
See, I was referring to him. Yet you think I was referring to me. Therefore, that makes you part of the average lodex was talking about. ;)

me and the flea were actualy working on this until Reach came out than i got distracted.

So Slayer, whens the next sermon on xfire?