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Can you guys stop scaring me by having 14 new posts overnight. Jesus, look at the thread title.
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Had to go back a ways to find something worthy of a thread title change, but it's definitely due.Jedit posted:Minbari ship design is more elegant, the gun ports basically just open and presto - guns! Which is probably why they energise the weapons as well; the objective is to be open handed with what they've got, but that's hard to do when you designed your turrets to avoid visible panty line. If they had Earthforce style flip-up turrets they wouldn't have to do that. Babylon 5: that's hard to do when you designed your turrets to avoid visible panty line Unless anyone has something better I'll report this post tomorrow so a mod can change it. Suggestions welcome though.
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Apr 28, 2020 03:35
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Babylon 5: Visible Gun-Porty Line.
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Apr 28, 2020 06:00
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Bieeanshee posted:I'm inclined to imagine something like Sliding Albion, from the early Authority comics. This reference is now at least 21 years old.
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Apr 28, 2020 08:02
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Y'know that bit with the guy who is afraid to leave Babylon 5 because he left the others and they blew up? That, but with dead cast members and changing the thread title.
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Apr 28, 2020 11:12
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Babylon 5: living the Thomas Jordan life https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_Jordan or Babylon 5: fear of the Babylon Curse
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Apr 28, 2020 12:12
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AntherUslessPoster posted:
Seconding this.
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Apr 28, 2020 13:05
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Babylon 5: DrAFFa-19 Survival Station
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Apr 28, 2020 13:16
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If you change the thread title someone else is going to die and you'll feel bad.
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Apr 28, 2020 15:29
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CainFortea posted:If you change the thread title someone else is going to die and you'll feel bad. "No B5 actors or crew died in the making of this thread title"
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Apr 28, 2020 15:30
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CainFortea posted:If you change the thread title someone else is going to die and you'll feel bad. Thus the B5 Curse thread title is the best
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Apr 28, 2020 15:33
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"Babylon 5: Das Ende Der Markab" Very topical.
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Apr 28, 2020 15:34
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Babylon 5: We are paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.
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Apr 28, 2020 15:41
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Angry Lobster posted:Babylon 5: We are paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate. Go with this.
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Apr 28, 2020 15:46
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Angry Lobster posted:Babylon 5: We are paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate. This
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Apr 28, 2020 15:49
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Angry Lobster posted:Babylon 5: We are paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate. Concur.
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Apr 28, 2020 16:10
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Angry Lobster posted:Babylon 5: We are paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.
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Apr 28, 2020 16:32
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:lol I can change it to this if there are no objections Whomever in the cast drops dead next will be upon your head for your actions  .(Yes please, absolute do change it)
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Apr 28, 2020 16:34
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Whomever in the cast drops dead next will be upon your head for your actions
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Apr 28, 2020 16:36
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Andreas Katsulas is dead, and so are my dreams, what more could go wrong? loving hell, Jeff! 
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Apr 28, 2020 16:43
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thread title good tempting fate bad
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Apr 28, 2020 16:49
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Is it too early to start a betting pool for which cast member Jeff just killed?
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Apr 28, 2020 17:03
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It was the year of Edit: We are living in the craziest timeline. Angry Lobster fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Apr 28, 2020 |
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Apr 28, 2020 17:10
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Angry Lobster posted:Babylon 5: We are paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.  Ok yeah this is better.
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Apr 28, 2020 17:43
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Jedit posted:This reference is now at least 21 years old. Please don't rub it in. 
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This page was a wild one to readJeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Andreas Katsulas is dead, and so are my dreams, what more could go wrong? gently caress's sake you're so right
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Apr 28, 2020 22:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24AJP0693mc
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May 3, 2020 17:52
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 This looks really good.
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May 3, 2020 18:05
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Is this that guy who claims to have all the CGI assets and will put up a “test render” every few months and was begging for donations for a new computer to do more of them?
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May 3, 2020 18:11
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I'm not sure if it's that same specific person, but your mind is in the right place. The video description has a good amount of detail:quote:All of the models used in this animation are the ones used on the show back in 1995. Ninety odd percent of the textures are also the ones used back then, though I didn't have some of them so those had to be replaced - the planet and nebula textures being the most obvious. A number of the effects had to be remade as they were also not among the original assets I have - things like the destabilising effect on the jump points, the energy mine blast and the effect it had on the shadow vessels . . stuff like that (though I used the same techniques to recreate any that were missing) But most importantly all the scene files are the originals, created by Foundation imaging, so the movements and lighting is accurate - except for where I might have buggered it up.
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May 3, 2020 18:26
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(I just noticed the very f'ing last scene - bugger!).
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Yeah okay one more of the superfans who fight over who gets to be king of the nerds based on how many lightwave files they’re sitting on.
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May 3, 2020 18:31
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We are never going to get a better remastered version, which is really sad.
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May 3, 2020 18:37
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Midjack posted:Yeah okay one more of the superfans who fight over who gets to be king of the nerds based on how many lightwave files they’re sitting on. Angry Lobster posted:We are never going to get a better remastered version, which is really sad. Yup to both. It's ironic that pretty much anyone with a modern PC and a copy of Lightwave 6 to 11 could render these out pretty fast, but the superfans are basically the bottleneck. So the nearest thing we can get to a remaster is in the hands of a guy who has a busted old rig and a not-great eye for this stuff.
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May 4, 2020 11:32
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gently caress these hoarders. The dedication is what's lacking. There are fully complex and complete B5 models of everything from shuttle to the stations in different game's mods as early as Freelancer, so it honestly just a matter of picking a game with a strong scripting engine, digging out the mods and filming the scenes.
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May 4, 2020 13:30
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AntherUslessPoster posted:gently caress these hoarders. The dedication is what's lacking. There are fully complex and complete B5 models of everything from shuttle to the stations in different game's mods as early as Freelancer, so it honestly just a matter of picking a game with a strong scripting engine, digging out the mods and filming the scenes. Ah, I don't know about that. There's a ton of work in that "just" part. Despite the B5 CGI looking old, it still does stuff better that many game engines with B5 mods - motion blur, anti-aliasing, film grain, lens flare, etc. You could do it with something like Unreal or Unity and probably get good results, but there's tradeoffs to animating that way. I've been trying animation stuff with Unity but the lack of ability to scrub the timeline for some types of scripted events makes it much harder to work with as an animation tool. I can build tools to solve that, but... well, it's all a hell of a lot more effort than re-rendering the Lightwave scenes with a few clicks.
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May 4, 2020 13:55
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Yup that's what I'm talking about. If some guy has all of the files needed for a homemade remaster and can prove it, fans could fund his new pc for the job. But if all the files are in hands of some dick who will hold onto them until they eventually die from mountain dew overdose and files get lost in the history then the only way is to custom-make the sequences anew, be it unity or a game with mods. Boils down to dedication to B5 and free time. No doubt it will be a great work for a low outcome but that's what fans are for 
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May 4, 2020 14:29
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AntherUslessPoster posted:Boils down to dedication to B5 and free time. No doubt it will be a great work for a low outcome but that's what fans are for I dunno man. I think it goes way beyond dedication. This is a huge job. Even putting aside the substantial work I mentioned before, you've got other things to deal with. You'd have to edit the new VFX into existing episodes, you'd then have constant jumps in quality between the awful up-scaled in-camera effects, the okay non-VFX live action stuff, and the new hyper-nice CGI - not to mention having to work out what to do with sequence that combine live action with actual space scenes. Sure, you'd have nice VFX among the crusty quality of the rest of it but it would make for a poor result in terms of the viewing experience. You'd be signing away years of your life to work on something that could never be more than a footnote or a curio.
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May 4, 2020 16:09
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The way things are going somebody is going to be able to use computer learning or whatever the gently caress they call that ai poo poo to just up res the DVD copy of the show regardless of what a handful of the nerds want to do with the cg files
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It's been a while since I stopped my watchthrough and I left myself with a hell of an episode to come back to  . The cut from Molari complaining about Earth's civil war to Major Ryan having to shoot down his friend's ship gave me whiplash. ISN being taken off air was surprisingly intense for a 90s TV series and I loved how the Narn recruits charged straight past Garibaldi's defensive position and into Earthforce's guns, showing they were motivated but inexperienced when it came to actual combat.
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ThingOne posted:It's been a while since I stopped my watchthrough and I left myself with a hell of an episode to come back to Sweet ! That's the turning point (and halfway mark) of the series as a whole. As of now, bigger things start happening faster for a season and a half. Strap the gently caress in. In season 5, all this comes home to roost.
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