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'Chaotician Drac' - Now On Air

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As a couple of you know by now, I'm planning on starting a new youtube show called "Chaotician Drac" in which I play the part of a chaotician from the Jurassic universe who talks about chaos and metaphysics and travels around to alternate dimensions, meeting various human and non-human entities. My discussions and some of the personal interaction will be actual video of me with some props and do-dads, but a considerable amount of the show will take place in digital sets (machinema) within Trespasser, designed to suit the stories as they come up. The first episode will be on-air in the middle of December. In the meantime, as I write scripts and wait for props to arrive, I have begun building the sets to be used in the show. Some locations will be known simply by a dimension identification tag ("Dim-#####@"), including the prehistoric JR mod I'll be doing in which I meet my saurian assistant. The second episode will feature an actual dimension from Mayan mythology - Xibalba, the underworld. 'Tis a place of death, decay, skeletons, and dangerous folk, including a friend and main character in the show, Ah Puch. Xibalba is entirely within underground cave systems; it is said to be present in the world at night time, and so I'll eventually be using Lee's star-data technique to get the stars of Mesoamerica in ancient times, to be seen at a couple locations in the set. It's going to be fun creating Tres levels designed to function as successful recurring sets as opposed to publicly released gaming set-ups. Stay tuned for more of this and other sets as I build them!
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I like this, it's a very interesting concept.
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After some weeks, the main set for the first episode is ingame...
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Concerning those old computer towers, did you model them yourself? Look nice!
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Hey, that's a really nice set of models you've got there! I thought you said you weren't getting back into Max! :P
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Slugger - yes I did. Basically I took general inspiration from the computer tower-looking things in SG1, and the "comp" models in the IT Ops Center, and put on geo plant textures.

TI - I decided several weeks ago now to get back into Max. My memory's a little vague on the sequence of my decisions but my intentional non-Max days, enforced to remove the modeling step from modding endeavors, are now over. And damn it's potent. This is only what I've come up with for the first episode.
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:D That's awesome! Glad to see more new player models.
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Well, seems the first complete town for Tres is going to be a film set:
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Very cool! Is that meant to be somewhere in Central Europe? Although I wouldn't precisely call it "complete" unless all of the houses have full interiors as well... :wink:
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Complete as/in a town with a full complement of houses, in whatever state...

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Looking very moody!
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Slugger wrote:Looking very moody!
TheIdiot wrote:Very cool! Is that meant to be somewhere in Central Europe? Although I wouldn't precisely call it "complete" unless all of the houses have full interiors as well... :wink:
Since when do film set houses have complete interiors?? :P
Fair point! :P
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Working hard....

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I can't tell if I should be afraid or be jovial watching this footage. :P What happened to your head?!
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