New Members, Interview, & misc -(Chaos News Post 021904)

Post by **R.Flagg** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:00 am

Once again, as requested, notifying forum readers there has been a news post on the web site.

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~chaotic/

Thanks!

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:28 am

at last

|GoD|Plaguelord|LDR| · Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:31 am

About time... don't you think it took long enough

Post by **R.Flagg** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:53 am

You guys are gonna get me in trouble.

(we need a manta smiley, that's what I really wanted to use!)

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:37 pm

im gonna fire mines if you wont show new screenies every week after this

Post by **R.Flagg** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:10 pm

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:15 pm

noticed theese,but i hope there will be more next week

Deapblade · Post by **Deapblade** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:07 pm

Relax dude's, did you see how much write work R. Flagg had to do for that intervieuw?

I stopped reading at the half of the intervieuw, djeez it is so big, R. Flagg can write a book about CaosUT2 when it is finished hehe.

Post by **Shadowstar** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:14 pm

If I get permission from the team, I can start showing my dev work on particle effects, and get you folks some new screenies each week. Some of the pics from the interview are early demo's of my flamethrower and frozen player effects. We've got a new freezeray that seems to be popular with the team, and some very early relic-FX concept demo's that I've been keeping stowed away on my HD. But I wont do that unless the team says its ok.

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:43 am

ill cross my fingers so the team says O.K

Post by **R.Flagg** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 11:39 am

Shadow, we've always been cool with that, Jb even encourages content creators to post in the public section from time to time.

The thing is though, we just have to remember not to starve your PR department (

HI! hehe ) I'm sure you've noticed how often over last couple weeks I asked in our dev sections for news pics. If not for news on our site, then there is often chances for PR thru 'exclusives' being mailed to news sites. There's interviews, etc.

So sure, the Team has always allowed members to show off stuff they are proud of, after all, it's your work, and it's nice and healthy to want to show it off. But work with me as well please, so that I can do my part.

My personal suggestion is that if the pic in question is a '1st showing' of a new item, or an extremely cool look at a newly updated item, it should go thru me first, before any such public posting.

And it's best of course, IMO, not to post anything that has not yet been confirmed as making the cut, and going in the mod.

And please, be picky. Jb gave me 10 pics or so recently, and I used 3. Why? Well, just for one example, there was a shot that had the lights in the background, shining right thru the monster model. (just one of those thigns we deal with in this game) It happens a lot in game, we all know that, but I would not choose to use that pic to show off a new model. IMO, take the shot again, and lose the lights coming thru the model. It's usually best to try and make the item in question, the focus of the pic. You'd be surprised how many pics I get, that it's difficult to see what we're pimping.

Taking pics for promoting the mod can be seen as trivial, or as quite serious. After all, they're only around for a bit, and eventually drift back to page 2 of forums, or web site. But then again, pics speak a thousand words, and gamers these days have a thousand choices. And it's also true, that some BETA pics I have posted over the years/months, in various places, do in fact find their way around the net, and end up staying forever, as "the" pic on some download page or something. And that's not so good. There are pages out there highlighting our xbow before it had a skin, for example. Ouch.

And of course the Golden Rule. We do not use other people's work to promote our mod. No custom skins, maps or models. Rare exceptions are made (I recently used a non-Chaos skin, but it was made by Kirin), but generaly we do not.

Deepblade wrote:R. Flagg can write a book about CaosUT2 when it is finished

You would not believe! This post, for example, is nothing compared to what those guys suffer thru in dev sections. And if you wanna talk all of Chaos, not just CUT2.....whew! Add the manuals I've written, plus my old unused personal site for CUT, news postings, interviews, IRC chats, in-game lessons to new players....truth is I've already written more than enough for a book, probably many times over.

Post by **R.Flagg** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:36 pm

Speaking of pics, there's another one, just put up today.

Only it's in the Guest section of the Gods of Devastation clan's forum.

Post by **Shadowstar** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 8:01 pm

Flagg, you can use any of the pics I post to the dev forum for news posts if you would like. I usually don't keep anything under wraps, but I defer most of it to the big cheeses like you and JB. I consider everything I do for Chaos to be property of Chaos, for the people in charge to use as they see fit.