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Cryptite
10-09-2003, 09:51 PM
Well, for the sole reason that fights that take places at night in fields simply awe the hell out of me (like from WW2 (Band of Brothers rocked my socks)), I decided to start this little animation. I love how gunfire and bombs light up the sky and its surroundings... Well anyway, here is the animation. Couple of things I know are wrong, like the odd explosion flames the last explosion causes (result of a poor video post edit (will be fixed))... Let me know what you think. I intend for this shot to do more and last longer, but here is one of the first drafts. Has sound too...

Night Fight (http://cryptite.f2o.org/fanfilmmovies/nightfight.avi)
1mb | DivX 5.05 AVI

PS. Sorry about all the (('s and )))'s... maybe next time i'll use brackers [] :)
Dancing Monkey
10-09-2003, 10:10 PM
Hey, Cryptite. How's the whole project goin? I'm kinda pre-occupied with school, but if you guys are still needing some help, I'm here.

I couldn't watch the animation, but I'm sure it's great.... I need to get DivX back...
cgg
10-10-2003, 02:10 AM
looks great , i love the sound....lemme see more ...more !!! :O)
Cryptite
10-12-2003, 03:13 AM
Here's an update. Things i've fixed:
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The ground is now muddy. It seemed odd to have a path of cobblestones in the middle of a field. So its now muddy.
Added some more ground fire.
Added a second mortar explosion
There is some flak at the end.
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I have a question and I'm wondering what you all think. By accident, I had the first 3 flak explosions light up the sky (which I used a sphere for) and the 4th doesn't. This occurs because of the location of the flak explosion lights relative to the edge of the sphere. Anyway. Do you like/think the flak should light up the sky like it does the first 3 times or not like it does the 4th. Other than that, shoot your other comments at me. Can't wait to see what you guys think.

NightFight v2 (http://cryptite.f2o.org/fanfilmmovies/nightfight2.avi)
1.3mb| DivX AVI
SpooX
10-13-2003, 08:14 PM
Nice to see you here again Cryptite,
I see you scaled down a bit (instead of an earth exploding you made some earth exploding :) )
Something seems to be not quite right with the flying dirt though, perhaps it is the speed, or the lack of chaos, it looks more like a fountain instead of an explosion (too much upward direction)
I like the leaves in the wind a lot! but beware of the clouds, they move a bit too fast i think.

Keep it comming, have some helmet flying around after an explosion, would be nice...*grin*
Cryptite
03-23-2004, 03:55 AM
I actually started to work on this shot again out of want to win a CG competition elsewhere. I think the challenge has died thus far but I think I might just start work on this one again. Here's a screenshot of the latest work. This has become more Star Wars related rather than WW2 now due to that Fanfilm that I'm making (see sig).
http://cryptite.f2o.org/fanfilmimages/nightfightss1.jpg
Spaghetti
07-18-2004, 12:14 AM
how did u make those tracers in the ww2 version? :O
Cryptite
07-18-2004, 04:50 AM
Wow, i'm surprised there was a reply; haven't updated this thread in awhile. The tracers were very simple. I just placed several super particle sprays all over the place and had the emit instanced 'bullets' at high speeds mapped with a white material on top of which i applied a glow from video post... Hope that answered your question...
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