Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2001-08-18 02:34:00
good ones only
to
[email protected]
no more then 10k in size or ill delete it.
and NO WORD files plz
Post by: Dark-Raver on 2001-08-18 02:35:00
Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-08-18 03:31:00
Post by: chowderhead on 2001-08-18 07:36:00
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-08-18 07:54:00
And I'm on the story developent committee!
Sephiroth 3D
"One who seeks knowledge from another person, doesn't learn half as much as the one who seeks knowledge for himself." - Vincent Valentine, The Sephiroth Chronicals, Book 1: Resurrection
[email protected]
Sephiroth 3D's Final Fantasy (Currently Offline)
Sephiroth 3D's Promised Land
Post by: Sir Canealot on 2001-08-18 15:36:00
And I'm on the story developent committee!
Bah.
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2001-08-19 02:20:00
Also to u all, seph3d is also open to submissions (if i rememebr correctly).
what i was saying b4 was:
if ur interested to join our team, (tech side OR story side) please email me ur work to [email protected]
and YES, unless someone on the team comes up with a better name then The True History - is substantial (i was thinking about The True History Of(or "behind") Sephiroth - )
Post by: Sir Canealot on 2001-08-19 05:11:00
It was scrrwed up any way and couldent have happened in the story of FFVII any way. How ever it did show that I can write at 1am in the morning damn well :D
How ever if you cant find it and would like to see some of my writeing I have several peices..around. Or did I forget to back them all up? Who knows. I can do more writeing..I think.
Post by: chowderhead on 2001-08-24 19:23:00
I sent it as a plain-text attachment, hope that's okay.
Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-08-25 02:41:00
"Behind Sephiroth"
Ooooookay. Not that either. Just kidding! But anyway, I really can't envision a good game by that name. Try something a little more interesting, more captivating, not just some title that sounds like a High School textbook! I know you'll do it right.
Post by: M0T on 2001-08-26 00:42:00
Post by: The SaiNt on 2001-08-26 10:07:00
Final Fantasy VII : A Different Perspective
:)
Post by: Ged on 2001-08-26 12:42:00
Post by: Anonymous on 2001-08-27 16:13:00
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2001-08-27 14:41:00
ff7: alpha
or
ff7: episode 1
:P
Post by: M0T on 2001-08-27 15:17:00
Post by: halkun on 2001-08-27 18:27:00
FF7: Attack of the Clones
-halkun
Post by: Anonymous on 2001-08-28 02:20:00
Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-08-28 02:28:00
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Post by: Sir Canealot on 2001-08-28 16:06:00
How about Final Fantasy VII: The Decicev Wait?
Hurry up tech team :P
Post by: ficedula on 2001-08-28 17:25:00
Post by: eerrrr on 2001-08-28 23:10:00
But how about 'FF7: The one where you find out about it'?
Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-08-29 01:35:00
FFVII: This time, we're going to cover up the loose ends better.
FFVII: Let's hide special things in the code to make them think we planned something and cut it out! Hehehehehehe!
EDIT:
Thanks, eerrrr!
As someone who is still trying to come up with an ORIGINAL storyline for himself to write about, I can tell you, it's not easy for me. I come up with what I think is an original idea, and then I remember; Phillip Pullman did that, Shakespeare did that, NOPE! That idea was Orson Scott Card's... it's tough. I'm still hanging on to the scraps of that wierd dream I had, which are now horribly mangled by me trying to make sense of them, and I try all the time to add a decent story to it. It isn't working. I just can't figure out what to do with it. I'm sure i'll get it eventually. The reason I want to post things like that is that I realize how incredibly hard it can be to write. I want to give them all the help I can. (However, I also realize that writing in a universe that has already been explained to you is much easier, as is the case. Still, we all want the reamke to be good, eh?)
C'ya. :D
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Post by: Sir Canealot on 2001-08-29 03:04:00
Post by: The SaiNt on 2001-08-29 06:39:00
Think of something short.
Post by: M0T on 2001-08-29 14:21:00
Also it is difficult to write a title without the story
Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-08-29 17:11:00
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2001-08-30 01:57:00
if the mods dont like it then delete this post :P
here are some alpha shots from the configurator and the menu screens. www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff7.zip www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff7.jpg www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff72.jpg www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff73.jpg www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff74.jpg www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff76.jpg www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff77.jpg
![]("http://www.sajidakhtar.homechoice.co.uk/remake/ff76.jpg")
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Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-08-30 02:25:00
Post by: ficedula on 2001-08-30 02:59:00
Post by: Sir Canealot on 2001-08-30 03:17:00
What the hell is Aeris doing in the back row? Silly place to put her really. It will make her important physical atack even weaker. Div :P
EDIT: What you lot hideing on the audio tab? Come on cough it up. I couldent hope for dolby digetal support could I?
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Post by: ficedula on 2001-08-30 03:59:00
1) Yes, it has texture compression support, optional of course :P
2) The game has no maximum texture size. In practice though no card supports above 2048x2048, any anything above 1024x1024 is sloooooooow. None of the textures used at the moment are above 512x512 but if your card supports larger texture sizes, framebuffer effects can use it.
3) Yes, it's in OpenGL because:
- I like OpenGL :)
- OpenGL is easier to use than DX
- OpenGL is less ... changable ... than DirectX (in other words, when a new version comes out, you don't have to rewrite half your code)
- I like OpenGL a lot :)
4) Aeris is on the back row by default, but if you REALLY want to, you COULD change her position, as a LAST RESORT.
:D
5) Audio tab: Well, that hides REALLY ADVANCED stuff, like which soundcard to use. Better watch out: yes, it can use a soundcard - whooooooooa!
(Actually, it can also use 3d audio and EAX [Environmental Audio], but that's not quite so important at the moment!).
6) Oh yeah, it can also run in any resolution that your card supports. Jari tested it out in 1600x1200 and said it looked fine, which is cool. Note that we can't guarantee the final game will look good in 1600x1200, because any beta testers who can run it properly at that resolution will be killed by me for having a better PC than I do.
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-08-30 14:08:00
BTW: Those multiple 1024x768 rez options were different refresh rates.
Here's some WORKING screen shots from Alpha 8:
Alpha 08 - 3 Alpha 08 - 4
Alpha 08 - 5 Alpha 08 - 6
Alpha 08 - 7
As for the offical name of the remake, we are currently discussing it within the remake group. But we DO appreciate your suggestions.
Sephiroth 3D
"One who seeks knowledge from another person, doesn't learn half as much as the one who seeks knowledge for himself." - Vincent Valentine, The Sephiroth Chronicals, Book 1: Resurrection
[email protected]
Sephiroth 3D's Final Fantasy (Currently Offline)
Sephiroth 3D's Promised Land
Post by: ficedula on 2001-08-30 14:30:00
The game still looks "best" at 640x480 as shown here:
but it does run pretty well at higher res, and I am constantly improving the quality of the graphics :wink:
Post by: Sir Canealot on 2001-08-30 16:14:00
Really good work guys. Seems like your getting jiggy with the menu now. Err...have you tryed it on a Geforce 3 system yet? I think not..hint :D(joke)
Heh. Have you managed to do any other tricks yet then?
Post by: ficedula on 2001-08-30 22:11:00
Well, the menu system - as you can see - is complete. Everything works; materia affects your stats correctly and adds it's abilities to your command menu, status/elements are calculated correctly, you can use items, etc.
The battle scripting system - the non-visual part, ie. the enemy AI - is 90% complete. You can write "AI Scripts" for the enemies to tell them how to act, and run a test battle between them - but only in "text" mode, there's no graphics on it yet.
Post by: Anonymous on 2001-08-31 00:09:00
Post by: MMiller8 on 2001-08-31 02:07:00
Y'know, I was thinking about FFVII (the REAL game), and I thiught that if the story followed cloud, you could call it:
The Man with the Glowing Eyes
Of course, there are many other titles. Most of which, as I said before, depend heavily on the storyline.
On a differant note, I just finished Ender's Game yesterday, after 3 days of intermittant reading. I have to say that it has crushed all of my dreams and hopes of ever writing a good book. I don't think I can top that. :(
Oh, yeah, another good idea. Have any of you ever read Harry Potter? Well, if you haven't, the antagonist in the book is ---------. Sorry, his name is He Who Must Not Be Named, to be politically correct. But anyway, that gave me an idea. To take the foreshadowing to a new level in this game, perhaps you could have Cloud (or whomever is the main charachter) not know who Sephiroth is, never see him, only hear about him. But you could make Seph influence him in certain ways. Including, but not limited to, ruining his life. The cool think you can do with that situation is that all of the players would KNOW who he was, hence, as I said before, taking foreshadowing to a new level and having the charachters walk into obvious traps. I am reminded of when Cloud runs into the Battle Room in the Gold Saucer, despite the bodies strewn about. My freind and I shouted, "NO YOU STUPID *@&$ING IDIOT!" but to no avail. That, in my mind, would be a good way to take it, and it would make the mystery element even more interesting.
One more thing. I thought that you were REMAKING the game at first, and I had a lot of ideas, but I lost them. It occurrs to me that you don't necessarily have to stick to the 'history' of FFVII. Make it up yourselves. Wow. Yet another option. Keep carving that block of wood!
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2001-08-31 03:25:00
Post by: Sir Canealot on 2001-08-31 05:15:00
Y'know, I was thinking about FFVII (the REAL game), and I thiught that if the story followed cloud, you could call it:
The Man with the Glowing Eyes
I love it! Thats a really great title! Now just stop ranting...I heard about Enders Game though. Must buy that at some point.
Now onto the skillster.
sir canelot, mines IS a geforce 3 system now hint hint
No! No you dont!
Any way I have a weird system configeration.
You need me to leak- no no to test your program to be sure that other people with weird system configeration can run them :D :P
Nah just kidding. But if you ever need an unpaid beta tester to do 6 hours of work a day hey I'm here!
Post by: Skillster/RedSarg99 on 2001-08-31 11:10:00
not to say there ISNT any plot/game, its just the building needs to be built on the already laid foundations.
no point calling it the empire state building if it ends up looking like the effeil tower :P