Munitorium Meeting 102409

[Anlysia Gregoire]

I didn't make this pretty because it was kind of all over the map, and a lot of it went on in Vent, irritatingly.

[16:16] Anlysia Gregoire: Alrighty, well, since I've given everyone 15 minutes notice, we'll start now. Light turnout, I blame bad sim attendance due to the sim being closed 75% of the time lately.

[16:16] Tsume Xiao: Radar shows Munitorium on sim who arent here ._.

[16:17] Anlysia Gregoire: Sera is going to lay down.

[16:17] Desereck Creeggan: >_>

[16:18] Anlysia Gregoire: Anyway...the first thing I want to touch on, is the notecard I've been totally "about to do" for like a month.

[16:18] Anlysia Gregoire: The "here's how you guys requisition stuff, it's a form :v" notecard.

[16:18] Anlysia Gregoire: http://forums.ordoimperialis.com/index.php?/topic/5386-fulminata-flamethrower-unnamed/

[16:18] Anlysia Gregoire: Take a look at that, that's probably a good example-format. How does it look?

[16:19] Anlysia Gregoire: (It'd be in a notecard, mind, not on the forums.)

[16:19] Tsume Xiao: I like it c.c

[16:19] Keller Teichmann: Like.

[16:19] Scientific Waffle: I HATE IT (Actually, quite nice)

[16:20] Anlysia Gregoire: Obviously the more complicated the item, the more silly it gets, but that's a good middle-ground example between "lawl it goes pew-pew" and something stupid like the Aequitas, that I couldn't even bother doing one for without a big book of info.

[16:21] Anlysia Gregoire: Go take over main channel if you want to talk. Yay Tenaki.

[16:21] Keller Teichmann: So that we have an actual paper trail. c-c

[16:22] Anlysia Gregoire: Leading off from now having an actual FORM you guys can start using with requisitions, etc...

[16:23] Anlysia Gregoire: I want to talk about the actual "process" you go through with Munitorium. As in, what can we improve on, what can we change to make things easier? This is more of a "You talk I listen" meeting, really. I want feedback. Where do you have problems, and issues with Munitorium? What needs to be altered, to make things smoother for you?

[16:24] Tenaki Kupferberg: Forums is nice, for it provides a nice list of things that need animations from me, and I am too lazy to compile one myself.

[16:24] Keller Teichmann: The forums are nice

[16:24] Keller Teichmann: Even though the first thing I did when I saw them was "omghowmuchshitforAntesig!?" c_c

[16:25] Anlysia Gregoire: Imagine how I felt writing it all.

[16:25] Tsume Xiao: Thats Agares going "HERE TSUME I MADE THIS CANNON FOR YOU TO SCRIPT I CAN SAY ITS FOR ANTESIG TO MAKE TO LOOK IMPORTANT

[16:26] Anlysia Gregoire: Upcoming stuff will be handled better on the forums, unfortunately I'm playing backlog-catchup with a lot of (A LOT OF) undocumented, un paper-trailed gear that nobody knows eff-all about.

[16:26] Anlysia Gregoire: Something like the Fulminata flamethrower or the Negev or...well hey, stuff not in Agares hands...you can already see the improvement. :P

[16:28] Anlysia Gregoire: I know one of the big sticking points right now is animations. I'd like to work with Tenaki to whip up a couple of quick tutorials to making simple hold/aim poses (or really any sort of simple non-animated pose at all) in QAvimator and Poser, so that we can maybe get, for instance, builders or scripters making some poses for their weapons, and we can reserve some of poor Tenaki's energy for making the more complicated stuff.

[16:28] Anlysia Gregoire: I mentioned this...last meeting I think but poor Tenaki was kind of, uh, ill then.

[16:29] Keller Teichmann raises his hand. Has Poser, is willing to animate, just needs to learn how to work Poser instead of Maya. D:

[16:29] Anlysia Gregoire: Hence, tutorials. ;3

[16:30] Desereck Creeggan: I know how to use Qavimator, never heard of Poser

[16:30] Tenaki Kupferberg: Poser is a premium, very expensive animation tool that works a bajillion times better than Qavimator ever did.

[16:31] Anlysia Gregoire: Yes it's "very expensive". Wink, nudge, etc.

[16:31] Tenaki Kupferberg: Ethan <3

[16:31] Mercury: New contact: Ethan Schuman

[16:31] Tenaki Kupferberg: Yea. Very pricey. e.e

[16:31] Anlysia Gregoire: Hi Ethan.

[16:31] Desereck Creeggan: If its expensive, then I can probably find a torrent for it

[16:31] Desereck Creeggan: >_>

[16:31] Desereck Creeggan: <_<

[16:32] Anlysia Gregoire: Anyway, back to feedback. Is there anything else that comes to mind, that immediately makes you go "Anly, you should be doing this differently"?

[16:32] Ethan Schuman: Anly, you should stop being a trap.

[16:33] Tenaki Kupferberg: I vote against this movement.

[16:33] Keller Teichmann: Ethan

[16:33] Keller Teichmann: Hi5!

[16:35] Anlysia Gregoire: Fine, apparently I'm doing everything perfectly. Thusly my ego will double in size and threaten the entirety of Titan. :v And its all you guys' fault.

[16:35] Anlysia Gregoire checks off that on the notes.

[16:35] Keller Teichmann: Still well short of Kanaki class.

[16:37] Anlysia Gregoire: Anyway...along those lines, I'd be interested in seeing people provide other tutorials. For instance, sculpting. Or texture-mapping. Stuff that would be useful to a lot of people who don't know how to do some of these things. A basic primer to help people learn a new skill, basically.

[16:37] Keller Teichmann: Working on a sculpting tutorial.

[16:37] Tenaki Kupferberg: I come into the channel, and all I hear is Ethan: "For example, the number of penises! :D" in a very excited tone. :[

[16:38] Keller Teichmann: Because about 50 billion people ask me how I use Maya on a daily basis

[16:38] Anlysia Gregoire: See, there you go.

[16:38] Anlysia Gregoire: People are always willing to help, but, they need that little "nudge" to give them an idea how things work.

[16:39] Anlysia Gregoire: Open up QAvimator for the first time blind, and you'll just kill yourself.

[16:39] Anlysia Gregoire: Or Tatara, for that matter.

[16:39] Desereck Creeggan: Amen.

[16:39] Tenaki Kupferberg: I hated it at first

[16:39] Tenaki Kupferberg: then slowly went to loathing

[16:40] Ethan Schuman makes a note to himself. "Encourage Valor troops to open up QAvimator."

[16:41] Anlysia Gregoire: Okay...next up, I wanted to go down the list of what's in the works right now, and get some feedback hopefully from the people involved. Status updates.

[16:42] Anlysia Gregoire: First off, the new Praetorian toys. The hammer, and halberd. Sera's got them scritped and they're off for testing right now, as I imagine. I told Sera to draft some Praetorians to do it (so go be a pest, Tenaki)...so hopefully those will be in the field in not too long.

[16:42] Anlysia Gregoire: Make those Praetorians do something useful, etc. <3

[16:43] Anlysia Gregoire: Uhhhm...next up, the fancy new Astra plane. As far as I understand...you have the flight core done, Ethan, but not the weapons? And uh...that model kind of...needs some work. *cough* Am I on the right page?

[16:43] Anlysia Gregoire: The Predator it's called, right?

[16:44] Ethan Schuman: Yup. It does need to be retextured, and the weapons core is giving me a lot of trouble.

[16:45] Anlysia Gregoire: What's the weapon core giving you issues about, Ethan?

[16:45] Keller Teichmann: Maya has an animating engine in it, but it isn't as effective as Poser's and is a BITCH to rig properly for SL skeletons.

[16:46] Ethan Schuman: The guns. They kill the pilot every time you fly forward while firing.

[16:46] Anlysia Gregoire: Increase rez distance and minimum velocity?

[16:46] Ethan Schuman: Max velocity, max rez distance, trimmed bullets. The plane is just too fast.

[16:47] Keller Teichmann: Poser can take .obj, same as Maya.

[16:47] Anlysia Gregoire: Fun times. Hmm. Maybe you should bother Syl.

[16:47] Keller Teichmann: All you really need is a box shape of the same dimensions. c-c

[16:47] Anlysia Gregoire: Well...let's see.

[16:48] Anlysia Gregoire: The Negev is in testing, which a few of us know. Actually I just got handed a new version before the meeting, yay.

[16:48] Anlysia Gregoire: It's pretty.

[16:48] Anlysia Gregoire: Does this one have the updated textures from Keller yet?

[16:52] Anlysia Gregoire: (Vent): No.

[16:52] Anlysia Gregoire: Next up...the rest of the Antesignani weapons. Well. Firearms. The Galil / Galatz. Where are they at?

[16:57] Anlysia Gregoire: (Vent): They need a new builder.

[16:58] Anlysia Gregoire: Fulminata flamethrower: I've tried to touch base with Mizar on the status on the build, but he hasn't gotten back to me. As for the scripts, I know Sera was going to talk to you, Ethan, about the sensor-cone fire mode. I've no idea if he did.

[16:58] Ethan Schuman: He has. I'm working on a more efficient method.

[16:59] Anlysia Gregoire: Okay, so that's going somewhere at least. Good to know.

[16:59] Ethan Schuman: It's likely that project will be on hold until Nexii gets Ray Casting working.

[16:59] Anlysia Gregoire: Ray casting?

[16:59] Scientific Waffle: Yeah, basically...

[16:59] Ethan Schuman: Ray casting is sort of like sensors, except they stop when they hit something.

[17:00] Scientific Waffle: And its clientside, so there's no demand on the server.

[17:00] Anlysia Gregoire: I'd really rather not be dependant on something that only works on a specific client, honestly.

[17:01] Anlysia Gregoire: Even if it's more efficient.

[17:01] Ethan Schuman: Well, look at it like this...

[17:01] Ethan Schuman: Either we do it through ray casting, or we don't at all. It's really that much of a difference.

[17:02] Ethan Schuman: Besides, I can try to think of a way to make ray casting server side.

[17:02] Anlysia Gregoire: I had a different method I gave to Sera, maybe I should pass it off to you and you can see if it would work for you.

[17:02] Anlysia Gregoire: I don't know if Sera told you.

[17:03] Anlysia Gregoire: Anyway...moving ahead.

[17:04] Anlysia Gregoire: What else...Tsume finished like umpteen goddamn random exploding things for Agares in the past week. Ballistae, Veritas, the Intimidator(?)...

[17:04] Tsume Xiao: Ok.

[17:04] Tsume Xiao: Last night I went on a scripting frenzy.

[17:04] Anlysia Gregoire: Indeed.

[17:04] Anlysia Gregoire: I want that Lasgun BTW.

[17:06] Tsume Xiao: I finished the MP9, redid all the anti armor explosives so they work abgainst SK tanks (SK uses a higher vel threashold), finished the Ballistae(sans manual), Veritas(sans manual) Intimidator got scripted from ground up and just needs reload sound for missiles, Aequitas needs track/engin/cann0on reload, scripted the ENIC M24A2 SWS, scripted Vincents Lasgun, and tried and empily failed to get my wire-guided missile working ;-;

[17:06] Tsume Xiao: All in about 10 hours c.c

[17:07] Tsume Xiao: :D!

[17:07] Anlysia Gregoire: Speaking of the Lasgun, Vincent isn't here but yay to him for making one. Do you have one to show off, Tsume?

[17:07] Tsume Xiao: Yes.

[17:07] Tsume Xiao: >.>

[17:07] Tsume Xiao: <.<

[17:08] Tsume Xiao: Its basically same in functionality as the FWwhatsit.

[17:08] Tsume Xiao: As vincent asked me to make it.

[17:08] Anlysia Gregoire: I don't know what the plan is yet with that thing, TBH. It just kind of came out of the blue. I think it'd be funny to give to Cadets.

[17:08] Tsume Xiao: Vincent said he wanted it to be an extra/unlock.

[17:08] Tsume Xiao: Maybe group it with the basic rifles or shockrifle?

[17:09] Anlysia Gregoire: Well, whatever Aryte decides on in the end.

[17:09] Tsume Xiao: The rifle has a 50 round mag.

[17:09] Tsume Xiao: AND

[17:09] Tsume Xiao: WAIT :O

[17:09] Tsume Xiao: THERES MOAR

[17:09] Tsume Xiao: Since vincent wanted grean, and I wanted black...

[17:09] Tsume Xiao: It has 9 built in colors c.c

[17:09] Tsume Xiao: 3 Monochrome

[17:10] Tsume Xiao: "/1color" brings up the menu.

[17:11] Tsume Xiao: It has 3 Monochromes, 3 "Yeah I could see them using that", and 3 "LOL FURRY!" colors.

[17:11] Tsume Xiao: Black, Dark Gray, Light Gray, Brown, Olive, Mustard...

[17:11] Tsume Xiao: Red.. Purple... and blue ._.

[17:11] Tsume Xiao: .___________.

[17:12] Tsume Xiao: Bullets are plain damage bullets that just have glow to look like a laz0r

[17:12] Tsume Xiao: It also has training rounds.

[17:13] Tsume Xiao: Questions?

[17:19] Tenaki Kupferberg: Tenten might be willing to reanimate Punisher. e.e

[17:20] Anlysia Gregoire: Okay so after that divergence due to FireFox...the last thing I wanted to ask about is the Dropship. Ethan probably knows this one. Is that thing done?

[17:24] Anlysia Gregoire: Alright, I'm going to kick you out here, since Aryte gave me paperwork to do. :\ So just call this finished. Thanks for coming guys.