Let's say someone was planning on putting cutscenes in their plugin. Would this person want to put them right into the main download, or as an optional download alongside the plug? Second, about what screen size would be good? I don't want them to be too small, because then you wouldn't be able to see stuff, but if they're too big I might as well distribute the plug on CDs... Finally, what about detail level? Would the artits be castrated if he sucked at making figures of people?

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Originally posted by Divals the Conqueror:
**Let's say someone was planning on putting cutscenes in their plugin. Would this person want to put them right into the main download, or as an optional download alongside the plug? Second, about what screen size would be good? I don't want them to be too small, because then you wouldn't be able to see stuff, but if they're too big I might as well distribute the plug on CDs... Finally, what about detail level? Would the artits be castrated if he sucked at making figures of people?
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1: Supply plug alone, movies alone and a plug+movies downloads
2: Try making the screen size the same width as Nova when played in a window. Or maybe width of the map window
3: People would probably comment on detail, but that's people

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Originally posted by seant:
**1: Supply plug alone, movies alone and a plug+movies downloads
2: Try making the screen size the same width as Nova when played in a window. Or maybe width of the map window
3: People would probably comment on detail, but that's people

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How big is nova when played in a window?

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I thought about putting cutscenes in mine, using charcoal and pencil drawings/animations that my wife was going to do, but I didn't have enough people to get voices for everyone. I would like to see someone use this feature one day.

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The president, founding and only member of MUAAUMDS (Modem Users Association Against the Use of Movies in Downloadable Software, or something), me for that matter, thanks you for considering the case of modem users. He strongly supports the option of having the version with movies a separate download. If possible, he would like you to make possible for people who downloaded the basic version to download just the movies and have the full version, it's quite possible (when people upgrade from their crappy modem to DSL). He also wonders since when Divals makes plugs. He thanks you for reading this.

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Originally posted by Zacha Pedro:
**The president, founding and only member of MUAAUMDS (Modem Users Association Against the Use of Movies in Downloadable Software, or something), me for that matter, thanks you for considering the case of modem users. He strongly supports the option of having the version with movies a separate download. If possible, he would like you to make possible for people who downloaded the basic version to download just the movies and have the full version, it's quite possible (when people upgrade from their crappy modem to DSL). He also wonders since when Divals makes plugs. He thanks you for reading this.

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Divals has been working on this damn plug since 1997, bitch.

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I thought about having movies in my plug-in. For the one in development right now, I was planning to make 2 downloads, the first one being a full package having extra stuff, and the second one being the just basic version.

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Plugs seperate from movies, please. I have a cable modem, but I'd still rather have them seperate.

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Originally posted by Divals the Conqueror:
Second, about what screen size would be good?

I've found in my experiments that 320x240 in a good codec looks fairly nice with Nova's 2x multiplier turned on. If you wanted to go really overboard, you could do a straight 640x480 (or even 864x480 for that touch of widescreen).

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1:That depends on the lenght and quality of the cut scenes.
2:320 X 240 is pretty good. And if you use sorenson 3 as compression you´ll get 30 seconds of video on 5mb. 640 x 480 is also good. But then you´ll get some huge files.
3: No.. I kind of like the ares cut scenes.

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Originally posted by Divals the Conqueror:
**Let's say someone was planning on putting cutscenes in their plugin. Would this person want to put them right into the main download, or as an optional download alongside the plug?
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If it's just for eye-candy, I'd make it separate and be sure to explain that they're optional. If they're integral to the advancement of the plot, I'd make them a separate file, but explain that you won't be able to finish the story without them.

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Make them the same size as the gambling/race movies.
They're 256x128, and they look fine. Plus, that way they'll be small.

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Originally posted by David Arthur:
**I've found in my experiments that 320x240 in a good codec looks fairly nice with Nova's 2x multiplier turned on. If you wanted to go really overboard, you could do a straight 640x480 (or even 864x480 for that touch of widescreen).

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Exactly what I was going to suggest. Even down to the widescreen bit. Personally, I had always planned to use 432x240, or something similar.

Furthermore, at such a small size of a movie, with mpeg 4 compression, movies still look damned good, and are quite small.

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Originally posted by EVula:
Plugs seperate from movies, please. I have a cable modem, but I'd still rather have them seperate.

Any official ATMOS plugs will have the movies bundled.

Dave @ ATMOS

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Originally posted by pipeline:
**Any official ATMOS plugs will have the movies bundled.

Dave @ ATMOS**

ATMOS plugs will have movies? Wow.
awaits plug-ins eargerly

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As we're into the matter of compression, only use codecs that you know the user can see, i.e. his version of Quick Time can handle. For instance my iMac with 9.2.2 has a QT high enough to play Nova but when I attempted to see (url="http://"http://www.redvsblue.com/appleswitch.shtml")http://www.redvsblue...pleswitch.shtml(/url) I realised it couldn't recognise the codec (Sorenson 3, if I'm not mistaken).

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Originally posted by pipeline:
**Any official ATMOS plugs will have the movies bundled.

Dave @ ATMOS**

I still think they should be seperate, unless they are a damn critical component to the plug.

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Originally posted by Zacha Pedro:
**As we're into the matter of compression, only use codecs that you know the user can see, i.e. his version of Quick Time can handle. For instance my iMac with 9.2.2 has a QT high enough to play Nova but when I attempted to see http://www.redvsblue.com/appleswitch.shtml I realised it couldn't recognise the codec (Sorenson 3, if I'm not mistaken).

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Never thought of that issue.
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This movie is sorenson 3...Can you really not see it..? Does anyone know any other good codecs...? Sorenson video is bleh, at least in my tests. Mpeg 4 is good, but i don´t know how compatible it is..

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Can't tell - I'm on my iBook 10.2.8 right now, on which I'm able to view it (and on which I viewed the RvsB movie, for that matter).

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