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The Official Halo 3 Thread
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xxjuicesxx
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fin said:
Feb' 07? Sad day. Had crazy fast speeds and stream or download option. Anonymous or member uploads. It was solely for Halo too.
Captain Blood
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fin said:
This would be awesome, but the ridiculous amount of videos that would have to hosted by the site makes it almost impossible I think.
xxjuicesxx
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Hahahah Frankie gets t-bagged
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhto1SNhIrw&feature=related
old but new to me.:lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhto1SNhIrw&feature=related
old but new to me.:lol
The Librarian
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Sadface. Why is it that Bungie can't let us download our videos from Bungie.net on to our computer?urk said:Yeah, the video quality on Youtube has improved quite a bit. Still, I'm gonna see if I can't find a better solution and put a moratorium on requests for now. I tested out a very small video (less than twenty seconds) and it took over five minutes to upload to Youtube. It doesn't sound like a lot of time, but trust me, it adds up quick when you have a pile of videos to get through.
I've had a few suggestions so far, but nothing that looks very promising.
Oh and:
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?GamerTag=Dax
The Lamonster
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the hammer falls like rainLukeSmith said:
Captain Blood
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xxjuicesxx said:
Notice that Frankie had the most kills on the winning team, and the kid saying this is a MUST youtube hahahhahaha
swander said:
I'm absolutely SICK of sniper games on Halo. I will leave before the game even starts, making it 3 on 4. Me not being there means less kills for the enemy so I'm practically doing my team a favor
Speaking of Team Slayer, if you leave before the game starts (instead of quitting out during the match) will you rank down? I only leave in social matches.
Ah...played Halo 3 for the first time in 70 days (MGS4, etc, etc). Despite having to play Shotty Snipes (ugh) it was like taking a warm bath after being in the woods for many days. It's remarkable just how solid the core gameplay of Halo 3 really is. No other FPS on the market FEELS as good to me.
LukeSmith said:
You don't understand how much I love the get up kids !
Respect.
the song is here for anyone who wants to listen: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2bxGmjOJ0P8
xxjuicesxx
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LukeSmith said:
If that jibba jabba means they banned I'm a happy camper.
Dax01 said:
Saved Films aren't actually frame by frame captures. They're better. The game saves the code and allows you to "replay" it with the engine, which in turn gives you the ability to do all the fancy editing and camera work you love so much.
If Bungie wants to hand me the engine and a devkit, I'm sure I could work up a system that would automate the capture process, but yeah, it would be monumentally taxing to handle thousands of video requests at any resolution and the bandwidth needed to serve them up for all of the Halo community, or even a small section, would be enormous.
urk said:
Did Skate display replays as rendered video files or game code? Either way it was pretty cool. EA had a Skate Youtube-like site that you could upload your videos to for free. Being able to post videos on message boards calling out people to match tricks was really cool. But the Skate community is probably alot smaller than the Halo.
The Librarian
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watLukeSmith said:
Dax01 said:
Saved Films on your HDD aren't films in their Saved Film forms. In the simplest and most mundane terms, they are just data points. Then, when the Halo Engine processes them (when you go to watch a film), the data points tell the engine what happened and the film is recreated.
This is old news, right?
The Librarian
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GhaleonEB said:
LukeSmith said:
Sarcasm is a funny thing.
The Lamonster
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it came from...my behind
The Librarian
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LukeSmith said:
On a serious note, I knew the videos were saved as game data, and I can attach anything up to 10 MB through my email.
The Librarian
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...EazyB said:
xxjuicesxx
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EazyB said:
Over 9000?
urk said:Saved Films aren't actually frame by frame captures. They're better. The game saves the code and allows you to "replay" it with the engine, which in turn gives you the ability to do all the fancy editing and camera work you love so much.
If Bungie wants to hand me the engine and a devkit, I'm sure I could work up a system that would automate the capture process, but yeah, it would be monumentally taxing to handle thousands of video requests at any resolution and the bandwidth needed to serve them up for all of the Halo community, or even a small section, would be enormous.
Right, but they could have taken the same route as Skate did as a secondary option. For example, in addition to sharing saved films as you do now, you could then have an option to convert to a movie file and upload it to the Interwebs. That would involve playing through the original "code" version of the film and taking screenshots at specific intervals, assembling it into a movie and running it through an encoding process to compress it to some codec.
Those files would obviously be huge, so storing on Bungie.net might not have been an option... or perhaps you could only store a single file and then it'd be up to you to download it off Bungie.net and put it up someplace else.
Anyhow, this would have been an amazing option.
The Librarian
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I would like to play something on MLG besides MLG on The Pit, please.
urk said:
Depends entirely on what resolution you're rendering at. Skate does it at a lower resolution, which would be fine for 90% of file sharing where people just want an easy way to share cool videos.
Also, it doesn't have to render without dropping frames - as playback speed doesn't matter. Each rendered frame could take 30 seconds to render, but the playback of the simulation is always advanced as if it were running at 30 fps. Then when you put the images together and play it back at 30 fps it looks like it's running at that speed.
The Lamonster
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you guys remember when I made this jokeThe Lamonster said:
lol its like a fart
The Lamonster
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or poop
also: IAWTP
also: IAWTP
Dax01 said:
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
EazyB said:
He'd probably have to ask his dad first.
I think the real issue is the sheer volume. Even now, the resources to do even low-res video conversion and hosting for Halo 3 would be tremendous. IIRC, when Bungie ran the Halo 3 Beta, they had to triple their back-end servers to support file sharing because it was more popular than they expected. And there's still over 800,000 people a day playing the game, and a fair number would be submitting clips immidiately. The videos would be in the millions within a week. Hell, I've got about 40 I'd send in, myself.Falagard said:
How many videos did Skate ever put out on the web? (Serious question, I have no idea.)
Falagard said:
Oh, I see what you are saying. I wonder how Skate tackles it though. I would imagine the code is what's being uploaded to EA and some back end system is doing all the rendering outside of teh 360 environment. Would be much easier that way. Code gets exported from 360 and loaded onto a much more powerful hardware platform running the game engine where it is then captured and uploaded automatically.
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