The Tale of Archon Discussion/Updates

Erk for the love of god! So many ****ing dumbasses in the world!!!

Many thanks to BlueJay for informing me of this fella trying to plagerise TTOA -
http://maps.worldofwar.net/maps.php?id=5488

I've sent a request to one of the Maps n' Mods moderators to have it removed.

I've been in contact with Craka_J for a bit, but I didn't know this was happening.

Heres the pms I sent/recieved:

Craka_J first sent this:
Iron_Ian, u probably heard of me so there's no need to introducing myself.well just in case if u havnt im: "Craka_J" the maker of Tales of the Earth, Leader of the Frankie's Productions Team. :y-wink3:
i hope u have no problem with me on me saying but. would you like it if i advertised a little about your cinimatics :y-wink2: I know many people that would like to watch your profesional cinimatics. i know i did :bigclap: it was the best! :bigclap: i know this is a stupid question to ask but i think its fair if i ask u about these sorta things. by the way, have u ever tried seeing one of my crappy cinimatics. when i look at urs i see PROFESSIONAL, when i look at mine i see NOT SO PROFESSIONAL. but hopefully my skills get better, im only a newb at making movies so it's gonna be difficult to withstand the compatition ou there. :y-candle: i also have another question, HOW did u make the music play? every time i tried the music didnt play durring the movie, but in maps it does. should i make the music in SOUND? and by the way, do u know more than 3 custom skins sites i can goto. i need some for my movie :y-hello: and yes i am a user of wc3campaigns,and here :)
your friend
Craka_J

I responded with:
Sure, you can advertise it for me

And yes, when you want music in the cinematic, set it to SOUND.

Also for skins the best place to go is either the downloads section here, or:
http://www.samods.com/~wcwarehouse/

Iron_Ian

He responded:
Thank u so much! Thanks for responding too! wow! best cinimatic maker is actually responding to me!
ty for telling me the site too! its a (2 thumbs up)how do i put images into messages??????
i uh...hope you dont take any offense on me taking some sounds or a wee bit idea(s) if u do mind then i guess i mind as well just stop producing Tales of the Earth. YES. thats right, i'll leave u incharge (for now) on wether my...ahmm, our team's Movie should stay or go. i'll still advertise 4 u neway cuz ur movie is WAY TOO EXITING. dont feel bad or too good j/k but once u private message me, I'll make the "Frankies Productions Forum2" immidiatly and it telling the choice.
PeAcE!

OH! our team has to say something,not in a gay way cuz we are ALL boys(literally) ages 12 and 13. im oldest :) ok here it goes and dont take it too gayly...WE LOVE YOU....................R Movies! lol
Your Fans and friends
Craka_J/[email protected] and the Frankies Productions Team
EMAIL ME PLZ, if u got yahoo

I responded:
No taking sounds. I should have never left map 1 unprotected, I ripped those sounds from other games, so don't use them.
Also don' take any skins/models from the map.
You can use basic ideas. But no ripping any of my characters names, locations, town names, mirror imaging my plot or anything like that.

And thanks for your compliments, much appreciated
Good luck with Tales of the Earth, maybe you'll even become one of the next l33test cinematic makers

Iron_Ian

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Iron_Ian

You should be very offended. More by how he did such a Horrible job of making it then stealing it.

chobo is an admin or supermod or something there, so you could go on irc and ask him if you want it doing quickly...

Yeah I'm trying to deal with it :bgrun:

Heh well I need to start working alot harder on pt. 3.

I think I'll go get some models/skins and requests ready for the map. Maybe I'll start on importing stuff or doing some terrain.


Iron_Ian

Plagerism junk all cleared up now. :ggani:

2 - 15 (Holy crap its the 15th already! Time flies)

Well eh no updates for a long time eh?
Damn guess I've been as lazy as can be :bgrun:

Well uh things are going okay. If only there wasn't so much art needed for TTOA things would go much much faster. But the trees are done now. So I can start on the terrain at least.

As for the site - I've done a bit of work. But theres still alot to do. I really need to find a way to get my worldmaps scanned. I've got 4/5 continents drawn. I'll keep working on the storyline/history stuff for the site though.

Need to get some screenies out soon I guess? I'll try to get some eye-candy for you guys to look at. :ggani:

Iron_Ian

I was thinking Iron, maby when your not in the mood dealing with triggers you colud make biographies for everybody in your story. Have a pic, name, affiliation, and age like the WC3 manuel. Then a breif description.

I was completely lost in Part II, i thought the main character was Darius but it was Archon. So it would probably help to get some backround. You know, get a better pic of the characters life.

Hehe good idea. I was thinking of adding something like that to my site. I forgot to clarify to everyone that Darius is going to die in the final part 1 when I released pt. 2. That led to confusion on who the main character was.

Iron_Ian

No updates for awhile, sorry.

My comp is running really low on space so I'm working on cleaning it up and organizing things (including TTOA stuff).

I've still got a model I have to have before I go starting on anything more then some terrain to, so now is the time for me to organize, terrain, and do some skins.

Who does your models? Do you have a TTOA team? Thats pretty cool. Also, is there a place or some source where you get ideas for names for your characters? I'm writting my story and i'm flowing thruw it except for names, i just cant think of them.

On a completely different note, can i have 1000 points. I've never been able to break more than 3 digits in my bank since i joined so maby you could help me out. I put alot in Draco's bank in hopes that when i get it back i'll have alot but maby you could help a fan. :gsmile:

Well I'll give you 250. But I'm keeping a massive amount so I can request models that my team can't get done when we're short on time.

That way I can make a thread like:
====================================
Model requests for TTOA (Total 3000 points)

*List of models to do*
====================================

As for the team, Alpengeist, Challis, and Alfredx_sotn are basically the members right now.

Xaran Alamas, John_Drake, and Oinkerwinkle have been helping too. I'll ask them if they'd like to join. That doesn't mean I'll give them much more to do then I've been giving them so far (especially Oinkerwinkle, man he is sooo fast, he gets stuff done pronto when he has time, and I like it :ggani:)
Also I'll probably get some skinning help from Whitehorn, Mock1, and maybe Egg too.

Iron_Ian

Thanks alot, looks like you got a hell of a team too.

2-22-04

Sorry about the slow progress on pt. 3 mates. I've been too lazy to put together all my requests and send them out. Rather I've been doing it very slowly. :bgrun:
However, things are getting done. Production rate should speed up as soon as I reorganize my TTOA folders, and ideas. Things are really quite mixed up, and its a very daunting task to reorganize them. I've also been working on reorganizing my messy music folder and trying to free up space on my tiny 20 gb harddrive.

I hope to have something to show you guys within a week or so.

EDIT: While you're waiting for TTOA updates (:ggani:), if you have a monster comp go to http://www.painkillergame.com and download the demo. Its a game similiar to Serious Sam and its really quite fun.
Basically you run around blowing the crap out of undead. It has a really cool physics system and you can blow alot of stuff up! :ggani:
On almost maximum settings, it runs with very little lag on my dads 2.4 ghz comp.

Adios,
Iron_Ian

2/25/04

Sup guys?

Right now I'm working on the site. (Meh this is going to take a while to finish :bgrun:) I've got alot of content to add and stuff.

Organizing my comp is going well. I'll keep working at it so I can hopefully pickup on pt. 3 by next week.

Iron_Ian

OMFG Iron i love this project. Your the 1 peron so far i look up too for warcraft 3 mod creating.