This is hopefully the last thread before DR6 releases. I?m damn busy with school and work, and those have to come first, but that said I made huge progress during the last two weeks. I?m half modding half testing now.



I?ll post more more info in this first post later, but now I?m tired - because I made you a movie at last: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJRtwkmgptQ. :foodndrink:


EDIT: http://www.filefront.com/14977849/undefined




Now, the movie really only shows SOMETHING, and I didn?t even try to capture the mechanics which are the most important factor in DR6. And remember it?s a MOVIE - stuff is programmed to happen a lot.



What you see:


-*some* of the powerattacks (more about the system later)

-3rd person animations in 1st person (I need to tweak the impale anim, I had forgotten about that one. Also I?m getting a new SHIELD BASH ANIM from howard, just FYI )

-the three new kicks: low sweep, roundhouse and flying kick. The NPC happened to be a bad kicker, so by pure luck you only see him performing one of the kicks.

-new one-hand impale. It?s quicker yet less lethal, you can perform it on actors that are already trying to stand up (for example after you sweep them off their legs)

-headshot with a bow

-the finishers/effects/mechanics are tweaked





NOTE: The NPC not attacking straight away after staggering player is caused by Bethesda?s "DisablePlayerControls" command I used to lock the player. I found out only this week that it disables NPC combat AI - only god knows why! I?m substituting the command, so NPCs will be more snappy than ever before in v6.



Like said, I gave up on making a comprehensive movie, even showing all the different powerattacks or show casing the 1st person animations in 3rd person overall. Just too much work over a the movie, I rather work on the mod, it?s best experienced personally when it?s ready.

Oh and I decided to sit on the supprise feature for now, there?s some new developments on it...it may get to be pretty huge in the end, but also that may mean it will be a quick update to 6.0 rather than included as it is now.




Well, I?ll reformat this post on a later date to be more informative.

Sounds great. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to this!

Nice view distance during the khajiit fight

He's gone and done it; again ! :ahhh:

*insidious laughter*

*girly-squeal-of-delight*

Can we have a MegaUpload downlink link for the movie..so that can watch it offline..the hq one that exist on your harddrive..

I wasn't really sure after watching the video, so, is the floating blood problem fixed?

Yeah, Cake!
Good teaser, thanks for taking the time out to make it. I can't wait

Yeah, and I used the blood textures from http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=25588 mod in place of the old ones.

I have send a request to get a permission to include them, they look so damn good.





What does it mean when it says "undefined" after checking the video?


My uploads are CRAZY today, I can upload 300Mb in 5 seconds, I don?t know how, so I already uploaded it TWICE after you posted.

The zip is 260Mb, and after upload Megaupload says it?s checing it and then it later says "undefined". I don?t know if that?s a bug in their system and something is still about to happen, or if the file was rejected.

260mb in 5 seconds, something not right there..< - unless you got super high speed fiber..100mb per sec upload..

maybe it was just uploaded too fast to megaupload and you confused their servers...

Can't see the video YouTube tells me something with copyright restrictions in my land.

... or it wasn't uploaded completely but was mistaken to have. Could explain the error.

No actually Youtube upload was also very fast....well it also got confused. It also kept saying that the video attributes are saved once the uploading finishes, even though it showed it already had.

I opened my account in an another window, and saw that the movie was already being processed. So maybe they do get confused, I don?t know what?s up with my upload speeds but this is fun actually.


Ah, now I remeber, Megaupload showed 40Mb/s. So it?s really fast....not as fast as I guessed but still, I should have 1Mb uploads or something. But it?s a soft limit so...it happens I guess.



Anyways, I think maybe the same thing happened as with Youtube. But I don?t have account at Megaupload, so I can?t get the link to the movie from "my files" or something, like with Youtube.




Huh? You mean you can?t watch Youtube at all, or you can?t watch my video?





EDIT: Any other suggestions on where to upload? Sendspace was crawling slow, Megaupload doesn?t work...Tesnexus...well it?s also slow..

I can visit the YouTube webpage and watch videos for example some Sesame Street videos - this is hardcoe, but I need some harder things with more gore and blood.

Rapidshare ? Or perhaps DropBox.

FileFront

Rapidshare restricts non-premium uploaders to 10 downloads, and I don?t understand Dropbox - it requires me install some program? I rather not, not just for a movie upload...




I think it?s uploading now....the upload "completed" in 10 seconds, the speed reported downwards from 300Mbps....now it?s 100% "complete", but upload speed shows 17Mbps, and I can see the trafic leaving from my system.


I think the soft limit kicks in with a delay, and surge confuses the servers. Apparently Youtube handled it ok (and I was lucky to get the whole file through with high speed), but Megaupload tried to check the file too early or something, the limit had kicked in and the upload slowed down drasticly (I?m just guesing here).

It would seem that Filefront might be more patient, even though the loading bar got messed up.

Cool video nice work Skycaptain

http://www.filefront.com/14977849/undefined



It?s 260Mb, WMV format.

Glad Filefront could be of service..downloading..

The vid is awsome. :rock: Love the animations... third in first is just wonderful, and the new kicks, impales and staggers look great. I hope npcs don't get too kick-crazy (the good kickers)- and *prays*, no npc cheating the rules you have set for the player (didn't see this happen in the vid). :angel:

One thing I noticed is that the stationary-duck first-person view seems a bit low- almost level with the ground. Maybe this is because you where fighting on a slope and happened to be facing uphill? IMO the third-person stationary-duck animation is fairly exaggerated... maybe this is just carrying over to the first person view.


I like the song too.

Awesome stuff! I guess I'm going to be really crummy at fighting again for a while with the new system, it took me a long while to get used to the DR5 system and I think I'm still not that great as I don't play much.

A couple of questions though: I noticed there were some wierd artifacts with trees where they are "vanished" from the centre of the screen at times. What's doing that? Is that something to do with the 1st in 3rd person animations? (or was it 3rd in 1st person animations? you know what I mean, anyway). In that video it's not so obvious, but if you were in a forest it would be pretty distracting.

Second: how many keys are we going to need to set up? I mean, I hardly ever remember to use the duck and grab keys for the special moves in DR5 as it is. With all the extra cool moves, how many extra (cool?) keys will I need to be mashing to have a chance of staying alive? I'm not complaining if it's just a couple. I just need to learn to get better, is all.

And the last and most important question: what's that song!? It's cool!

Awesome stuff, as always. :bowdown:

Vac

To me it looks rather like Skycaptain has a [censored] computer

Wootwootwootwootwoot! :ahhh:

Loved the video :woot:

DR 6 is going to be amazing, great work Skycaptain :foodndrink:

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