hi everybody, i've been working on some sort of techdemo in the last few days, and here it is:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UUPQKIVM (93.44 mb)

well i actually started working on it several years ago, with a5 and coded with c-scrip of course, that's why my project diary begins with version 0.12 instead of 0.0.....

http://laiila.com/evjial/

to run it properly, you also need to install the midivid motion jpeg codec from here:
http://www.midivid.com/codec/MJPCodec.zip (0.17 mb)

you'll need it to display the video, that's playing in the middle of the room, which is also the reason why the download is almost 100 mb huge.




but, let me introduce myself, cause i'm quite new here:
i made my very first steps with acknex4 where i created my first little levels. and then i proceeded to work on a small first person action game after i purchased a5 gold edition which was delivered in a box with a texture pack, a model pack and, a quite fat manual that was like a bible to me for a couple of months.
i really lost myself in gamedesign back then and even considered selling my final game, after a little web-seller emailed me that they've become interested in what i was working on. so i purchased the commercial a5 version, do get rid of the watermark and make my game look more professional.
but...the end of the story was, that i lost a lot of data after my computer got either infected with some virus which i couldnt get rid of, or simply got lost in some fatal bug, i dont know.... the only thing that has worked was the blue screen...........
i was 16 at that time, and using windows 98, which was a quite unstable os.

after that i lost my interest in everything that had anything to do with games.

but a few weeks ago, i rediscovered my hobby from teenage years while playing around with a recent demo version of the new a7.
and contiunued my work on this 3d gallery. well actually, i didn't know exactly what it will turn out to be, when i first started it, but it turned out to be a 3d gallery

well... and yesterday conitec sent me my license key for my new a7 extra edition, and today i finally uploaded the .exe to megauploads

btw, some time ago i also uploaded a short (30sec) trailer from the annulled a5 project, here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vffIMFMLGrI

That's the first post in the SC1 thread I've seen which combines screenies, project links and a bio
The first two elements are quite normal but I've never seen a bio linked with it but I guess that's quite normal if you're new around here ^^
Anyway, 93 MB for an art gallery it quite alot but I've taken the time and patience to download it so I'll give my full C&C (Critics and Comments ^^) after I've play around with it. Btw, did you thought of the chance too compress the video so you wouldn't have had such a large file

Edit; Played around with it, the atmosphere is nice with the purple lights and the amount of shadows. But I can't watch the video, even with the codec installed

Thanks in progress

Frazzle

actually, i did compress it, from a 600 mb file to sth between 68 mb for a 2:30 min video

the truth is, the video is the main attraction of the whole gallery,
but next project will have a much smaller size, i try to promise

and thanks for giving it a bit of your attention and patience

edit: i just read your edit .....i'll try to check that on my 2nd pc.....

Oh oke, good thing you compressed it from 600 to 68mb
Good luck with your next project

Cheers

Frazzle

it works fine with both pc's

both have windows xp...... well, i think the codec might not work with vista

plus, my 2nd computer was very slow, it only has 512mb ram and a weak on board graphics card, but nethertheless, i could watch the video

well, i remember having problems playing it for the first time, cause there was some conflict between the jpeg midivid codec and a direct show filter i had installed previously. but after switching the automatic file association for avi files off (in the direct show filter) the error disappeared

and thank you for the review

for everyone who doesn't feel like downloading the file, here's an 8 sec short video i just captured:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GmeOyKP1fXU