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Originally posted by Spectator Beholder:
Hmm... Even if you DO work for free and not gets any money, I'd give much to be in your place, just because of the fact that you do get to play the games that Peach Princess haven't released yet and gets some free stuff too [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img].
I don't know, he now has to deal with lunatics like us on the BBS so it may not be worth it... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
Damn…guess someone found out eh? Yes, all the flash related stuff on this site are my doings, but I make them on a freelance (lump sum) basis. Some of the subtitling for some of the original OP movies (SD, BraveSoul) are also my doing as well as some of the video compilations you see at the peapri booth at cons. I was the one who suggested to peapri to use Bink for demo movies and flash for smaller filesize…like, these games are mainly still images, and makeing a movie frame by frame is a waste of resources and time, and therefore flash is the best choice (although I still prefer making digital movies myself)
Note that some of the stuff are not made by me…eg the chara EXE slideshows and the CP mpeg movie, but I think you guys realize that by now…
Unfortunately despite my efforts to help save peapri’s bandwidth, it’s still way too much (we had to pay for the extra): anywhere from 20-40GB per month, and as we all know the sales we get do not justify this much bandwidth at all. I will see how I can revamp the downloads section with I get roadrunner set up next week.
FYI, according to site logs, the thing that consumes the most bandwidth on this site is the LMM flash (which is only around 2-3mb). Just for this month alone, there is 1GB transfer of just the LMM flash file alone, with 617 hits. The other files that take up the most bandwidth are my other flash files.
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c/a free stuff
I don’t get them often, nor do I purposely ask peapri for them…most of the stuff I get pertain to what I contribute back to peapri. For example, I got a copy of CP (jp version) only to use it as reference so I can work from it for the CP flash demo. So the free stuff isn’t really like a “gimme gimme” thing, but more like “resources” so I can give something back to peapri
[This message has been edited by Lamuness (edited 05-21-2002).]
Well, it was more a “guess” than “found out”, since I just throught that since you mentioned on your homepage that you had some flash skills you might be the one who made the flash movies (Wow, perhaps I have a natural talent for being a detective! ).
Well, you have done lots of good stuff, I have to say . And I except that you will make more stuff? Like a demo movie of X-change 2, perhaps???
Even if you do not get all that much free stuff and even if that free stuff is more like a simple “thank you’!” from Peach Princess for your work, I still think that I’d give much to be in your boots .
[This message has been edited by Spectator Beholder (edited 05-22-2002).]
heh i must admit the work that Lamuness had done it quiet impressive where did u learn all this stuff??? cos mes intrested in doin CG art n stuffs
TH.
Damn…I wrote a whole bunch of stuff but got deleted because I typed in my password wrong and I didn’t enable the form function for this computer since I am in a public cluster…now letsee if I remember anything
Ok…letsee…errr…
Practice is the most important thing, work on your skills at the most fundamental level first ie sketches. Also, be a good observer too; look at stuff. I find playing bishoujo games help alot of you want your art style to lean towards bishoujo (like mine), and visiting jp artist sites helps too.
Also, a good sense of err…what I would call “reverse-enginneering” helps. By that I mean if you see a nice piece of CG that you like, ask yourself “how the hell did they do that (technically)?”, and then experiment with new techniques. As you can see from my gallery I have been working on CG for at least 2 years and FYI, for each new CG I always try something new as a test.
Having a fast high-end computer helps work efficiency too. You can read from my profile page for my computer specs (note: one piece of my RAM fried last week so I am down to 512MB), although they start to have 2ghz processors so my athlon 1ghz isn’t the top of the line anymore. Many people say that having a digitizing tablet helps, although I don’t own one at all (so yes, I do all my CG with my mouse). But all these factors really depend on how much money you can blow.
But never forget this: CG is nothing but a tool. If your fundamental drawing skills are not up to par, jumping to CG too early will not help you too much. There are many people out there who just falls in love with the fresh and cool idea of CGing but neglect the fundamental drawing skills. So practice your sketching whenever you can. To quote my favorite bishoujo artist Misato Mitsumi: “draw, keep drawing, draw till you drop dead”
okay well hmm my artistic skills r 0 on the scale 0/10 so that killes that intrest oh well ;(
(btw this monitor is huge i could fit my 15" in to the screen of this 20" silicon Gtaphics monitor time to tweak linux to let me go above 1600x1200 it to 2048x1536 
)
TH
Well I am sure people here are not trying to discourage you…just that you need to spend a lot on time practicing and don’t expect your CG to become as good as these games in one day
hmm they make it sound sooo hard tho well maybe another day now not time toomuch to do like sort out what in doin in 5 weeks time (fin college)
anyhoos mes nearly got TCI to work under linux
i think the only game i got to work w/o midi is C’S Wares Fatal Relations and Divi-Dead (afer a fassion) jus need to find out why TCI aint goin then i’ll see if i can get XC1 to run if i get it to run u can disrto em 4 linux to (mes help on that point :P)
TH
TCI almosts ticks over then calls up the debugger ;( well NM i’ll jus have to play PP’s games on a tatty lil 15" screen instead of mt sweet 20" (watchin animes on it is kewl)
TH
that would be nice but my pc is in my b’room an the tv an 7.1 surround is in the room belowme ;(
TH
quote:You can, just get one of those cheap joypads where you can map the joypad buttons to keys on your keyboard, then map the joypad buttons to the keyboard keys that you use in the game.
Originally posted by woodelf:
Well I wish that the PP games used a joystick/game pad as well as a mouse for the
key input. Then one could run a long cable
to the living room and watch on a BIG screen TV if your computer has TV out for the video card as well as suround sound. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
woodelf: heh that would be good but still i need a infered keyb/mouse
TurricaN: i have a cheap gamepad but the midi port is bust on the sound card or is aine a midi/game port
btw i got a prob wid SD (V.Good Game) it runs so damn slow (just bout playable) do it need a cpu speed >than 300MHz?
my sys specs:
winME
196mb ram
p2 celeron 300Mhz
1.6 gig hdd 446mb free
CL SB 64v
S3 Virge GX/2 w/TVOut4mb
Voodoo2 12mb
ne suggestions on my it runs slow??
TH
did i say V.Good game??? mes was wrong again mes love it it be the best game since sliced bread
btw i fixed my prob with it beein slo jus ran windocter an speed disk an made some more space an it fixed
BGM kewl, MP3’s cant play loud enough everythin else too good
i give it 20/10
TH