Strangetown Conspiracy 11: A Brother's Fall (chapter at the end of the thread)
joe_mulcahy:
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I'm at Uni right now, so I'll have to hold off watching for the moment. I will say that the best I wound up doing with the skin was eyedropping the colour and applying my own bruises - tried using the existing ones, didn't work :dontknow: I needed other ones anyway, but still, thanks for all the packages you sent, they'll come in handy in other ways :)
Had a look through them, in fact - how on earth do you use these guys for the videos? :oogle: Are they animated or something? Very clever, whatever it is you do! :)
Thanks for your compliments on my Photoshopping skills too :D
ETA: Okay, now I've seen it - I wanted to give Ripp such a big hug at the start :( Very curious to know what Buzz wants out of Pascal - wonder if the penny will drop... Surprised Buzz's staff didn't get it after all that. Oh well... are you gonna post the deleted scene? :D Great stuff though :)
How on Earth do I use these guys for movies? Well, thanks to Echo and other great modders within the community, I've learned to extract animations with SIM PE, and make objects to place in the game to easily call upon those animations. Combining two or three of the animations in short succession makes for interesting effects, but sometimes not. I'd love to share these objects, but they crash even my game, and I sometimes can only film one or two takes of one or more scenes before the game explodes in a BFBVFS! I guess I'm more of a HACK than a true hacker at this time. I'm working on custom animations as well, but those are even less stable, as some look horrible in game.
One of my reviewers said that taking pictures of SIMs sometimes makes him want to pull all of his hair out, and I told him that's why bowling ball polish is a good investment, as SIMS storytellers and filmakers will likely be bald in the near future.
Ripp has a way to making people want to hug him, or at least treat him kindly(i.e. the aliens are cruel to the HMS Wright captives, but go out of their way to try and make Ripp comfortable). Yes, I shall release the deleted scenes soon, the problem is, I had so much leftover from this episode, I'll have trouble selecting which ones to use for the closing credits.
Sam the T-man:
:laughing: Bowling ball polish... good one! That is very true though. Sometimes my sims are darlings and do everything they're told, even more so occasionally, but other times I want to slap them for not behaving - even my favourites ¬_¬ Newer hacks like the fourth wall and overlay boxes on MTS2 make it so much easier, even getting effects you couldn't before, but it's not much help if they're standing near a friend of theirs and decide to smile at them instead.
I did notice that about the aliens being nice to him. I can see him preferring to stay on the ship 'cause they treat him better than his own Dad :( I guess he's got that kind of face - that and he's such a sweetie :love2:
Interesting about your hacks (also a little scary! :pale). I did like the effect you had with Ripp's face paint running, when he started crying after hearing from "Philly" as I've been calling her.
Looking forward to the next chapter (and any deleted scenes you wish to release ;))
joe_mulcahy:
Quote from: Sadie79;1169213
:laughing: Bowling ball polish... good one! That is very true though. Sometimes my sims are darlings and do everything they're told, even more so occasionally, but other times I want to slap them for not behaving - even my favourites ¬_¬ Newer hacks like the fourth wall and overlay boxes on MTS2 make it so much easier, even getting effects you couldn't before, but it's not much help if they're standing near a friend of theirs and decide to smile at them instead.
I did notice that about the aliens being nice to him. I can see him preferring to stay on the ship 'cause they treat him better than his own Dad :( I guess he's got that kind of face - that and he's such a sweetie :love2:
Interesting about your hacks (also a little scary! :pale). I did like the effect you had with Ripp's face paint running, when he started crying after hearing from "Philly" as I've been calling her.
Looking forward to the next chapter (and any deleted scenes you wish to release ;))
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm enjoying your series immensely as well! So have you got free time installed yet? I do, but I'm still playing with the hacks for the game, so I might just try the Animation boxes and Fourth Wall hack.
Hope you enjoy the next chapter, I've just released it.
Sam the T-man:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaawww!! :sad5: I did enjoy it, but nearly cried too... yep, we've definitely got the same Ripp and Buzz in our stories, huh?
Thanks for your kind words too :) I have indeed got FT installed, been playing it for a bit... and finding it very strange that Johnny's not getting music enthusiasm from his guitar practice :oogle: Came online to see if there was a fix or something, actually.
ETA: I really didn't comment enough before - the effects you used are brilliant! Great imagination regarding Nervous's predicament too, and when Johnny appeared - the scene switch to the Grunts was what got me, but you can probably guess why :angel: Buzz really does know how to hold onto your heart, doesn't he? At least he can cry in yours ;)
Awesome stuff, keep up the good work! :thumbup:
themaltesebippy:
This is just great stuff and I look forward to every new episode.
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