Sure thing! I've sent ARKaMAN a 41-minute long video I want to link to on this site so people can watch it directly from the forums (if possible) or via his site's capabilities. It is a guided walk through the map with music I selected from Jeremy Soule's soundtracks to the Elder Scrolls series and Guild Wars, only so that people wouldn't be bored just hearing narration and the sounds of the game. The music helps to liven things up a little.
It features an entire day cycle (with some bugs still in the system that will be addressed) as well as a complete display of all the map's areas during the walkthrough.
Trust me, the day-night system is a lot more flushed out than it was in the previous Release Candidates. If Kornman00 adds support for more than 16 BSPs to the newest Open Sauce, you can guarantee this map will sport it for the smoothest, most realistic day-night cycle possible. Yes it will be huge, but I most sincerely hope it will be worth it, especially if he also adds support for syncable devices / BSPs (based off the SP engine's features but done via the netcode), or however he can phenagle it.
I hope ARKaMAN posts that video on his site for me because I want to post the link here.
Edit: Here's a sped up video of the day-night system in action. Yes, some of the spots on it look bad because of the angles I was forced to calculate and use due to only having 16 BSPs at my disposal, and YES I did use all sixteen BSPs - 13 for day and 3 for transition. The sky checkpoints require 27 bipeds to sync, so even if I had 32 BSPs at my disposal it would make somewhat of a difference but by how much, I don't know? Anyway, I hope Kornman00 supports at least 128 BSPs in order for this thing to flow smoothly, or at best, the ability to enfuse multiple lightmaps into one BSP.
Anyhow, the video.
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Sorry if the video is in Mono and you can't hear the directionals of the audio because Photobucket mutilated it when encoding after uploading. I had this same problem with Youtube. I tried Facebook. However, it only shows videos to logged in users, not everyone. The plus, 20 minute video limit.
And yes, I use bigger than normal game font so i can actually READ the damn chat text. I hope it's not an issue because, quite frankly, it really shouldn't be. I say this because some people on some boards like to troll and flame the less fortunate and I'm tired of seeing it done to others and myself for no good reasons.
Anyway, let's have a good time and I hope you enjoy the video. When ARKaMAN gets the other vid posted I'll be happy to show that too. This should also quell the "bad trailer" i released a while back that didn't go as planned. Also, the font shown in the vid only affects me and not the actual map. It's a modification to Halo using the font editor utility, rather than an internal tag based edit. Don't worry guys, your chat text will show up normal.
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