My Movie

[Mad78]

This is what i have achieved after several months of work. I would love a little feedback. BTW I suggest you right click the link a do save target as since the film is 240,5MB. Yes i know its alot but my PC ain't very good at compressing.

 

Now i am going to chill out with Rebellion and after that get to work on the Reloaded movies.

[Defender_16]

Dude...

 

240? That's a big chunk of my remaining 3 gigs.

(Man I need to clean up my computer.)

[Aenivae_Ikeda]

Not bad at all, I like the music in the end, I can see you doing a lot of really great stuff. Good work man.

[Mad78]

Thanks!

Hopefully with the new computer i shall be able to get higher quality stuff.

[Aenivae_Ikeda]

You should animate a cartwheel galaxy, which is kind of what you did with the colliding planets, but a cartwheel galaxy looks much cooler in collision.

[Jahled]

*sighs*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think i'll get braodband

[Mad78]

A cartwheel galaxy? You mean two galaxies colliding?

[DarthTofu]

A cartwheel galaxy? You mean two galaxies colliding?

 

I think he means a spiral galaxy, like our own Milky Way is, but I can't be certain... Shall watch it when I get home if KoTOR doesn't nab me first...

[Evaders99]

Wow - great work, I'm impressed.

 

Some of the scenes seem to stand still though, the objects perceived as stopped due to the lack of moving background. And the speed of the probe through the sun seems unrealistic, given how fast it was travelling before and after. I found the ending self-destruct sort of abrupt. Could use some minor tweaks here and there, but overall quite good.

 

File size seems unrealistic for a lower quality movie of this length. Perhaps try encoding it in something other than quicktime.

[Mad78]

Some parts i had to improvise on so as to fill in some empty parts in the timeline. i shall try reencoding.

[Mitth_raw_nuruodo]

My comp doesn't wanna let me save target. I'll look at it either Sunday afternoon (my time) or next week.

[Aenivae_Ikeda]

A cartwheel galaxy is just two galaxies whose gravitational influence collides with the other, there are pictures of them and the resulting wave emminating from the collision.

[Krytos]

Oooooh, you finished the movie Mad! !

 

I'll have to download it when I get back from uni today

[BadSamaritan]

Quicktime? Bleh.... I think i shall wait until you encode it in something else. Quicktime makes my stomach churn.

[PHSYCOBOB]

Not a bad bit of work. I liked the planets hitting each other. =o)

[Guest Scathane]

Yeah the planets were cool... The water at the end as well... Lemme see if I can get some of my material up somewhere...

 

No kidding, Mad, quite a promising movie...

[Mad78]

A cartwheel galaxy is just two galaxies whose gravitational influence collides with the other, there are pictures of them and the resulting wave emminating from the collision.

I had a look at some. Doesn't seem like an easy thing to make but i always have a belief in the miracles of particles.

[Krytos]

Still waiting for it to finish downloading, I had a bit downloaded last night. Though hadn't realised that it was with Window's default downloader so it didn't pause it when I shut down the computer

Back to the drawing board . . . ah, downloading board

 

A cartwheel galaxy is just two galaxies whose gravitational influence collides with the other, there are pictures of them and the resulting wave emminating from the collision.

I had a look at some. Doesn't seem like an easy thing to make but i always have a belief in the miracles of particles.

 

I thought of something that might work for this. You could try having the two partilce systems moving towards each other. In between the two, put a gravity space warp with a negative strength, some decay and make it spherical instead of planar as well as linked to both particle systems - that'll pull the particles together. Then, in each particle activate interparticle collisions and you'd also probably have to have a Deflector of some sort for both particle systems (probably a UDynaFlect). That should have the effect of drawing them into a sort of gravitational overlap, as well as allow the particles to bounce off one another (with some tinkering)- it will probably be processor intensive, so try it with a handful of particle first

And if the single gravity spacewarp doesn't give a good effect, you could create two spherical gravity spacewarps and place them inside each particle system, though have them only effecting the other particle system to drag them together. . . I might have to try this myself in my spare time

 

EDIT: Ok, make that a positive gravity And a lot of tinkering (a 10 minute trial didn't go so well . . . maybe if the particle emitters were also linked to a solid object for the gravity spacewarp to pull on, otherwise only the particles get pulled towards it and are limited by both their life and the emitter's position)

[Mad78]

I shall have a go at this this weekend.

[DarthTex]

Good job Mad, I liked it

[Mad78]

Thx Tex

[Krytos]

Finally saw it all! Very nive work Mad The only thing that I could think of changing is some of the timing

 

I've got to ask how you did the planet collision effect/explosion, and the water at the end (that water was awesome!)

[Mad78]

For the planets I used Pete Draper's method.

The water material i can send to you via msn

[Mitth_raw_nuruodo]

It looks good Mad. I think at the end, just before you go to the black screen, more debris should fall to the planet. Not very many things completely disintigrate when they explode.

[Mad78]

Thx note taken.