The Darkstar Alpha War Server

[xPhoenixXx]

I have put up a new HD movie just quickly showcasing the AlphaWar server.. frame rate is rubbish as once again captured on work pc, but the video editing was done on my shiny new copy of Nero Video 12.

Final conversion done by EasyFLV FLV converter.

See the second video box on the main site -

www.jpcsupplies.com/minecraft/

[xPhoenixXx]

Actually I lied in the video.. there is actually more than 3 sides, but cause its a prequel server.. they dont know about them yet, and thus have failed to unite against them..

Ya dont wanna mess when the other sides just yet anyway

The Regular folk went on to become the King/Citizens/Soldiers/Merchants/Knights

And the Paladins and Assassins went on to become the.. Paladins and Assassins and Wizards and Elementalists and all that..

Something like that. Really need a decent backstory writer to tie all this stuff together.



ALSO
if anyone wants to rip the movies and put them on youtube to playback a bit smoother (at the moment the videos will need to buffer a fair bit before you can play them back smoothly)

The direct links for the HD videos on the main page are as follows:
www.jpcsupplies.com/minecraft/movie/teaserHDv2.flv
www.jpcsupplies.com/minecraft/movie/TeaserHD3.flv

[grimnir]

Darkstar Alphawars Teaser Video -

.. was it meant to be black and white?


Darkfortress Teaser Video -

[xPhoenixXx]

Dec 7, 2012 14:42:46 GMT 10 grimnir said:

.. was it meant to be black and white?

Ya, is black and white for several reasons:
1: each take was spread out over the day, so in game it kept alternating between day and night - so making it black and white filters out the obvious changes in day or night.

2: the server is sorta a "prequel" server, so the video waas meant to have a sort of this happened a long time ago type feel to it.

Black and white solved both issues.



PS.. i really should stop calling Mr Grimnir "anyone" J/K

PPS.. all the music in the Alphawar teaser is legit public domain so just out of curiosity's sake you could list that as a public video and see what comments we get. Probably people dissing the frame rates, and lack of production quality and such but even that might be interesting LOL

[grimnir]

on a side note.. alphawars.net is now my domain.
have created darkstar.alphawars.net which resolves to the server now

and re: B&W I was just checking to make sure it wasnt an issue with the file.

[xPhoenixXx]

Haha awesome.

I've held off regging a domain specifically for darkfortress, simply as unlike drews I was not significantly monetizing the server yet. I've found some plugins that fully automate donator ranks and perms etc.. btu they are quite painful to setup and require a passable paypal ipn which ive yet to have much luck to get working.

At some point I may monetize it, but at the moment all my time is taken up trying to keep the shop afloat... i need more buckets

[tangentspy (SaltPepp)]

your front end to your videos is broken...

[xPhoenixXx]

how so broken?

If you mean it doesn't show a thumbnail before you hit play, thats a glitch with the way I encode them. Ironically if I ecode them with a working thumbnail, then the video itself wont play pfft!

They are extreme HD too, so they will take a long while to buffer on anything but your own ISP backbone.

[grimnir]

aphawars server has been updated to lastest 1.4.6 B2579
all plugins are updated and basic testing shows them working ok.

[xPhoenixXx]

*High Five*

Hows movecraft holding up? It seemed a bit wacky on the main server. Not that anyone was using it so its off at the moment.


Oh as far as "our videos are borken" on the main site - I jus noticed that unsurprisingly internet explorer is not capable of playing them.

Any other browser made, even opera and safari should be able to play them fine.