Ninja Dodo: Please read?

[mikeejimbo]

I love your "Lost Episode" levels. When I first began to download it, I thought it might be kind of ripped off, but it was good. How did you do the cutscenes?

[Radium]

Ninja Dodo used 3D studio max. don't get your hopes up, it's about five thousand dollars. Ninja dodo also hasn't been at this forum for a while. I think you can still contact him through email though. I wanted to use his 3d Jazz model for a fangame, I would've got it too, but he couldn't convert it to .3ds so I could import it.

[mikeejimbo]

Ouch. He must be a good artist too.

[Tubz]

$5000 whoa! Are you sure!?!

[Violet CLM]

Private Messages?

[Trafton]

Private message, indeed.

And, yes, quite a bit of money.

http://www.dltestore.com/products.asp?pline=VIS&Family=MAX

And note that the price there is for the government only...imagine the cost to the end user. Quite an investment!

[KRSplat]

For thet price, it had better be great. Anyway, Ninja Dodo's not around anymore, sorry, and the Lost World levels were pretty decent, too.

[Trafton]

It is mainly geared towards professionals and those who would use the program for business, hence the price.

[Hare]

How did Ninja Dodo get it? lol

[Txl Kill]

I have it-illegal tho.

[Newspaz]

Radium is wrong. He did them using Caligari Truespace. I can't give you a version number though, I forgot. I'll redirect Ninja Dodo to this thread, since I rarely visits the JCF.

[Ninja Dodo]

Yo.

I am in fact still around. I still visit j2o regularly and the forum occasionally, I definitely don't bother reading everything, but then who does? I haven't stopped by here for a while now though - if I had I would've replied earlier so sorry about that, but anyway...

I'm glad you liked LWE.
Newspaz is right I used Caligari trueSpace (version 5.1 in fact) to create the cutscenes. It took me about half a year to create them. First I did the rough animation, then added in the extra movement and finally the sets.

If you're interested in doing this sort of stuff yourself, have a look at the trueSpace 6.5 demo at http://www.caligari.com or the freeware 3.2 version which can be found there as well.

Also, just because I haven't released anything for ages doesn't mean I've left the community. I'm messing with a few different projects and I might actually get off my *** and do something this summer.

[4I Falcon]

'Tis the Return of the Dodo!

You should stick around the Forums more frequently, ND. There's some crazy stuff that happens here.

*points at Batty Buddy*

:D

[Fawriel]

Originally posted by 4I Falcon
'Tis the Return of the Dodo!

You should stick around the Forums more frequently, ND. There's some crazy stuff that happens here.

*points at Batty Buddy*

:D
*grabs 4I's finger and points it at Disguise and Trafton*

[Tik]

*grab's 4I's finger and eats it*

[Fawriel]

*grabs Spaztic's finger and gives it to 4I*

[mikeejimbo]

Wow, thanks.

I can't find the 3.2 freeware though.

[Ninja Dodo]

Hm, strange... it seems they've taken it off the site. I thought it was going to be a permanently available thing.

Well, after digging a bit I found this link which still seems to be active: http://forms.caligari.com/forms/ts3all_free.html
See if that works...

If you get it up and running and need any advice, stop by http://pub7.ezboard.com/btrueSpace4um

[mikeejimbo]

Wow again! Thanks again!

Also, how did you get it to appear in the episode selection screen? That's neat...

[Ninja Dodo]

Read this:

http://www.jazz2online.com/articles/view.php?id=145

[Radium]

mikeejimbo: Always check the articles section before posting, because 3/10ths of the time some lifeless fool actually wrote an article on your question.

[Ninja Dodo]

fools, eh?
I pity the foo!

Oh wait, I actually wrote something there myself.:p

[Coppertop]

My brother just downloaded those episodes a few weeks ago ... must say I'm impressed, ND.:)