Hey loyal forum-readers, I'm going to do something cool, and I need you.

'What on Earth for', I hear you think - well, here's why: I'm going to make an movie (avi) to promote generations. I'm not sure if I want it done or even 'recorded' before 1.0 and it's art is fully developed, but at the very least I want to do some test runs.

I'm using FRAPS so I can get pretty much any demo going and take bits and pieces that look particularly cool. For a couple of minutes, I'll probably use demo stuff that's in the .99f demo thread, but I don't want too much First Person Action, if you catch my drift. I can do some fun stuff with cg_thirdperson, but unless there's some cool tool I'm unaware of, I fear keygenning is sort of out of the question (Please correct me if I'm wrong here, it would be very cool to be able to simply manipulate demos that we have so far, since that would look so much better than free floating stuff)
We have one or two acceptable free floating demos, in which a few moments could be cut out to present nice Generations action going on, but far too little is available.

Therefore, I'm asking all of you two things:

1.
I'm sure someone remembers the old, huge .99e Doom only night. I have no demos of this, and specifically, I have no free floating demos of this. If anyone somehow miraculously has some free floating spectator demos of those games on his disk, I'd be much obliged to receive them: wonderful fragging material for movie-making!

2.
I'm going to try and throw a very intense and chaotic FFA game, to get some spectacular Generations footage. I want a lot of specific shite for this:

* I want it done on the Euro server
(smoothest settings for demoing, can't have people teleporting about in a vid),
* I want the server loaded, right up to the maximum (we might even have to up that for one game),
* I want it to be on Simply Dead and possibly some other big arena style map that's representative of the Generations Principle: old school classics.
* I want no chatting during the game,
* I want it to last at least 20 minutes,
* I want people to use smooth settings (rate of 20k or up, cl_maxpackets 125) and no exceptions to this,
* I want everyone to go Random Class only,
* I want peope to go absolutely WILD using all the possible weapons available, using rocketjumps, taunting, using the LSOV and causing the biggest chaos ever.
* I want Arena/Strogg players (randomly selected!) to avoid picking up the medkit, because Beserker > Medikit,
* I want one other server attendee (besides myself)  to record a full demo of the entire game from a static angle and position and send it to me.
* Edit: I want to see a very varied selection of models, so before we begin we'll have to get everyone to select some fun skins and models for every class. However, Orbb will not be tolerated.

A good time for this sounds like Saturday, perhaps in between the normal forum games (say, around midnight C.E.T.). The score won't be interesting, but carnage will - if you can blast 20 people at once with a BFG shot: wonderful, if you can punch the living daylights out of everyone with beserker: even better!
People with very choppy connections are somewhat discouraged  -  but everyone is welcome!

Edit: midnight CET == 23:00 GMT == 6 PM EST!

Post here if you're up for it, and let me know whether Saturday 05/07 or Saturday 05/14 at midnight CET sounds good (and which). Suggestions welcomed.

... been thinking in GEN-related vids for awhile but i lack any knowledge at doing them (own-age.com regular though :p ). That said, and as long as i remember the GMT equivalent to the CET timing, i'd certainly show up. I'd go as far as saying i'd get the demo of the static point for you, but we'll see. It's funny you mentioned that specific map and free-floating, because among the 40-so demos i have to clear on GEN folder, i *know* i have of free-floating one in Dead Simple, including (IIRC) some more or less cinematic angles/approaches. This demo wasn't sent - it sits here until i check it and get all screenies, before being dumped like the others. Interested in having a look? I think there where about 6 people playing (not 20 slot mayhem), but it could do for "fillers" in your movie overall...

EDIT: i forgot, this next Saturday is fine by me, but it can be the other aswell. OT, but, why not Orbb? (not a problem, i don't like it)...

Assuming I can show up count me in as guy who gets gibbed #4  

it still disrupts the sound, and cg_nochatbeep doesn't seem to work. Besides, maybe I want some 2d stuff to show: just no chat for one single game, should be easily doable

Well im working alot this weekend but i might show up if i have the time, if not have fun capturing

Orbb is quite possibly the most annoying player model ever conceived, that's why. Bones would rank second.

As for Sorlag with Orbb's head, I have an odd feeling that Tab disables the headmodels setting on his end, so use away... he still won't see it.

I'll be there if I'm back from the gig. I'll also tell BAT.

Could we possibly do a monday, because I work all that weekend. :[

Count me in Tab! Always happy to help out a fellow player of certain places of origin

Regards,

Yickle.

I actually forgot about the races I go to every week on Saturday... guess because they were rained out the last 3 weeks. It's supposed to be nice this weekend though, so I most likely won't be able to show up.

So unless it rains every Saturday, it's actually a bad day for me.