Recent content by ZombiVoziKombi

Here are the intros, in a pretty polished state. They break up the awkward Openings video & can stand both on their own or as initial sequences in per-game longforms (and if the first version was an "album", this is now a "remix"). The concept is, I gather, fairly self-explanatory. The...

Ok, so here's something. Still tweaking it but this is in general what I have in mind for the spiffed-up versions of the vids. The changes from before are: new opening sequence photo gallery as the background additional background animations & stills at 2:03, 3:18, 6:18, 8:27 (links in the...

Yes, this works as well as I could expect, and it's fine for the whole video when blended with the default background. The GIFs refuse to render for some reason, but here are a couple of stills.

Yeah, thank you, that's how I'm leaning too. Was aiming for #2 at first, didn't consider #1 as an option but it was a necessary step in the production, and working with the Hive as a template, I thought "Oh, Yang would love this - the uniformity!" - so I went and rendered it to see how it...

Ok, so here's some more tinkering - a changing background for the faction videos. Would be used for sure during the leader quote, possibly too distracting to run throughout. Here are three different possibilities, posting them in a darker version approximately as would appear in the background...

Ok, potentially doing the long-forms provides an excuse to do more tinkering. If I do this I'll take my sweet time and I also want to make it different enough to be a genuine improvement. Here's one bit I've whipped up, a more dynamic opening sequence for faction videos:

Ok, so with the excitement about the 25th anniversary, and the AC2 forums hopefully coming back online soon ... ... I'm gonna do this. I got a copy of SMAC-X in near-mint condition (open box, the prices for sealed copies are thru the roof), and just ordered a comparable SMAC box. Now looking...

That is ... strange, coz these are the original images with the background taken out (little more than difference openinga.pcx - credits2.pcx), appear independently in manuals etc., and calling them "custom" is ... funny to say the least ... unless, yeah, someone is a copyright lawyer. No...

That's fantastic! :dance: Yes I was quite sure there'd be someone with the necessary skills on CivFanatics - rather than me pestering homies from 1-2 decades ago, scattered across 2 continents :lol: - which I'd have done, but this is much preferred. Thank you!!! Tag @Buster's Uncle @Solver

Thank you for the kind words! It's great to see people riffing on the old theme in so many new ways. Noone will mind, I hope, if I use the pinned thread to boost an earlier contribution that's actually useful while playing the game :lol:. It's the original SMAC tech tree poster, couldn't find...

Ok, so lastly here are the album notes. Track listing and an index to the various playlists. Really it's just a minor facelift to the schedule video, which is now out of date - providing the excuse to tweak it a bit more :lol:. The info is redundant with the shorter TOC in the Openings vid...

@Blake00 Thank you so much, glad you like it! Acutally, quite the opposite - I used the game's own renderer! I noticed that the vids shown in the game looked smoother, with fewer glaring decompression artifacts (albeit, with blurred details and duller colors) than the ones "converted" using...

Happy 25th birthday, SMAC! Whichever faction you play, whatever path to victory you choose, there's only ever one winner - 15 : Planet. Drafted the Planet video fairly early on, coz it was clear I'd need to do something more than just string quotes and movies. Quite pleased with the result...

The 14 : Progenitors appear to sense that their time has come. Caretakers and Usurpers : joined in mutual hate : lines between them blurred. Resonance : comes not from individual clips : rather video as whole. Implied narrative : circular : simple and pleasing even in brief compilation...

Nema problema, glad you're enjoying it! Creating a soundscape is in fact one reason why I put this together. I played this compilation as background for work once or twice and said, well ok, but - even while there is morbid beauty to hearing like 17 torture screams in quick succession - the...