Sanity Clause

[Warren Wagner]

Shit, I didn't see this was up because I was uplaoding my file so you weren't in the movie showcase for too long. Can an admin put this movie up on the showcase instead of my movie. This one obviously has more effort put into it.

I'll download this tomorrow as well. Again, sorry I did that, I wasn't aware.

[Aaron Haynes]

Originally Posted by Ned Carlson

NOTE: If the movie is sluggish at the beginning - pausing for a few seconds before moving on to the next scene - just stop the movie, return to the first scene, and start again. Also, I apologize if any music is out of sync with the action... 3DMM is still a bear in this area.

You can avoid the first of these by making a "caching" scene at the beginning of the movie that cycles through every v3dmm expansion you have activated (except textures, unless they're absolutely huge). You've probably seen this older 3DMM movies before, like DD or the JDRs. Back then they were just for show; now, ironically, they actually have a function. The first time an expansion appears, 3DMM takes a second to load it; without a caching scene, the early scenes of expansion-heavy movies get really laggy, since 3DMM is trying to load a lot of big stuff as it appears for the first time.

For the second problem, that often happens in 3DMM, yes, but there are a few things you can do to make sure it plays correctly on every machine: first, obviously, make sure you do a caching scene so the timing doesn't get thrown off as 3DMM loads v3dmm objects for the first time. Second, try to "optimize" scenery made out of expansion fonts like Superdings. The _ object in particular is extremely polygon-heavy, so if you're using more than two of these in a scene, or in combination with a lot of other high-poly props and actors, people with lower-end machines are going to watching your movie in slow motion. At 1fps. Haven't watched Sanity Clause yet, so I dunno if that's prevalent here, but it's good to keep in mind. If you can achieve the same effect with a low-poly model that you can with an extremely complex one, do it. Us with >1GHz machines will thank you for it.

Downloading.

[Gustave]

Downloading, will edit with review as soon as downloaded and watched.

Thats a large file for a 20 minute movie?

[Destra]

Well it probably has a lot of V3dmm expansions in it. Custom actors are around 1-1.5MB per actor.

[Aaron Haynes]

v3dmm expansions tend to make movie filesizes a lot bigger than they've been historically for their length.

Edit: Damn you Destra.

[Destra]

When's Vlarion 1 coming out, bitch!?

...sir.

[Bown]

Scene 15 doesn't work for me.

[Ben Rice]

Same.
Other then that, this was a tremendously splendid Christmas film. Good job Neddy!
8/10

[Bown]

I'M NOT WATCHING IT WITHOUT MY SCENE 15.

COS I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE FUCKING AWESOME AND WITHOUT THAT SCENE IT'LL ALL BE RUINED

[Anders Borg]

Haha this was killer. Best Christmas movie yet! 8.5/10

[Ned]

Do I do anything special in a caching scene... other than just have a blank scene? I did that for both DTH2 and this movie. For my computer, it still acts slow, lol.

Okay folks, let's see... the only thing I can imagine with scene 15 is that it has the Kid with Afro, Lotus, and White Car expansions. (And then I have a bunch of text on every frame for the "snow," but that's probably not it.) Hmm. Check and see if those expansions are loaded when you load the movie. I want to get this working for everybody, so LEMME KNOW WHAT'S WRONG SO I CAN FIX IT - FAST!

[Bown]

All of those are activated.

[Ned]

Other than that, just Wackydings. Crap, I have no idea. Tony had no problem with it when I sent it to him last night. How is it working for others out there?? Anders, did you have any problem with scene 15?

[Anders Borg]

Nope.

[Red Scorpion]

This film has made me feel happy! 7.9/10

[Ned]

Well it appears that only the British teens are having a problem with my lovely scene 15. Sorry, guys... maybe it's a compatability problem with the UK version of 3DMM?

Well Tom, just skip scene 15 if you can't get it working. You'll miss the music for the next few scenes, but not much else. Frankie just says he was going to teach Gus how to drive.

[Red Scorpion]

Originally Posted by Ned Carlson

Well it appears that only the British teens are having a problem with my lovely scene 15. Sorry, guys... maybe it's a compatability problem with the UK version of 3DMM?

I'm a british teen... I have the UK version and it was fine...

[Ned]

BUMP

No more complaints about scene 15, so I guess we're good.

[Orcus]

Wow that was surprisingly good. Actually I had no idea what to expect but I'm about to watch all of these movies. What's the order?

[Ned]

Originally Posted by Orcus

Wow that was surprisingly good. Actually I had no idea what to expect but I'm about to watch all of these movies. What's the order?

Glad you liked it! My web site's Movies section contains all the movies in chronological order. A lot of them are down, however, until Tuna gets them online in his next Tunafilms update.

[Orcus]

Awesome. Review coming shortly.

[Klaymen]

Ned... The Marx Bros. would be proud.

That was really great, Ned. Good to see you used "I Saw Her Standing There"

And... This is probably my favorite of all your movies. I think you should make more like this.

10/10.

[Digital Taco]

scene 15 doesn't work :\

[Ned]

Originally Posted by Digital Taco

scene 15 doesn't work :\

Bleh, not you too... that makes three. Just skip the scene and miss out on the music and a line of dialogue. I can't fathom why it doesn't work for a select few.