Mission Still Unaccomplished

[Ross Scott]

Hey everyone, this is just a minor update. My original plan was to not do another update until the filming was done, but 2+ weeks after I thought I'd be done with that, I'm still finishing things up, so I'm giving a quick status report. The reason things are still taking so long is because a lot of things I thought were done, I've found on closer inspection have problems with lighting, continuity errors, bugs in the engine, etc. One thing I haven't updated much on the progress bar of the next episode is the NEGATIVE progress, where things that I thought were complete had to get fixed. The update was frozen for a long time because of this, but I THINK it's all progress now.

 

I currently have ~1.1 scenes left to film, then the filming is done. The final scene I'm finishing has more engine bugs than most, so many that I'm going to have to redo part of it using the Half-Life 2: Episode 1 engine, as opposed to the Episode 2 engine. I plan to go into more detail on this at a later date, but this episode has been informative into just how many situations the animations will screw up in-game. The HL2 Episode 2 engine seems to be the culprit for most, if not all of this. I have half a dozen different situations where animations glitch out where they didn't in Episode 1. It's probably happening much more frequently than I'm noticing, but a lot of the time the difference is subtle, but for other situations it's horrid. If the code can't be fixed at a later date, for future episodes I may have to revert back to the Episode 1 engine altogether.

 

I have at least 2 more days of work before the filming is done, so we'll see what the actual time ends up being. I can't give any estimates on the remaining time for the music/audio, however I will resume Freeman's Mind as soon as the video editing is done for this episode.

[unknown user]

UPDATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[unknown user]

yes, just 2 more days to go. our waiting has been repaid. im usually a really pesimist person but...

YEEEAHHHHH

[unknown user]

yeah, but that's just when he thinks he'll be done with the filming. he'll still have to do video editing and sound

[unknown user]

i know i know, but after months of despair and waiting, id like to focus on the plus side today

[unknown user]

i agree with this guy, lets just focus on the good side. however, this update is suspiciously convenient... im not used to things going this good in quite a while now...

[unknown user]

Marto,don't doublepost like that please.

 

Thanks

[unknown user]

sorry, got carried away

xD

[unknown user]

The only real solution is to get drunk and set fire to things....

[unknown user]

YESSSSSS STATUS UPDATE YAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, Luis? Does It REALLY matter that much?

[unknown user]

TIME FOR OUR DALLY POLL!!! What's you favorite cp episode?!!!!

[unknown user]

FM of course, friday CP

[unknown user]

Your comment actually is read an approved manually, and it's somewhat annoying to see a bunch of new comments that were all from one person and could have easily been put into one comment. It's just a bit obnoxious, is all.

[unknown user]

It does matter, it's very annoying. Stop doing it, please.

[unknown user]

Thanks for the update! Good to know progress is still being made!

[unknown user]

Thanks for the update. I still wish we can donate to ya, but understand why you aren't. I couldn't help notice that your delays have a more-than-uncanny resemblance to Valve delays. You think Valve Time can be attributed to these rapidly-procreating engine bugs?

[unknown user]

Well I do plan to set up the donation function, but not until the episode is done. As for Valve, I have no idea. The Source engine is heavily modified from the Goldsource engine, which is heavily modified from the Quake 1 engine. It's been called the "tower of duct tape" before. What's worse is I'm not a coder, so I'm at the mercy of whatever bugs they introduce and leave in there. Alex Morton has fixed the big show-crippling bugs in the code, but there's still plenty of problems in there.

[unknown user]

I am glad just to hear from you, Mr. Ross Scott.

I wanted to say how much I love you but doesn't it sound a bit inappropriate..? Hmph. It's rather an.. admiration, I'd rather put it like that, yes.

In all.. well, glad to know that you're still alive, Mr. Scott.

[unknown user]

Ross, you just take as much time as you need to make this awesome. I'm sure the video will be great because all the others are. We can wait for quality.

[unknown user]

Take your time Ross.