New Parsec Movie
November 29th, 1999 by CrusaderMarkus Hadwiger from the Parsec dev team sent in the following:
Due to the many requests we have received via e-mail, we have finallyreleased a new Parsec movie. (available from http://www.parsec.org.)This movie shows some of the progress we have made since the releaseof the original Parsec trailer last January.There is also a couple of other new stuff on the Parsec Homepage:
- The movie is available in MOV (Quicktime 3.0+) and MPEG formats in the DOWNLOAD section.
- We have put up the screenshot for November 1999, which shows a Claymore (Parsec spacecraft) speeding into an already opened stargate. This shot was done on a Matrox G400 (OpenGL) in 1280×960 resolution.
- We have updated the WORK IN PROGRESS section at the bottom of the NEWS page. It contains some details about what we have been working on over the past couple of weeks, which mainly means focusing on getting the self-running demo done.
- The FAQ has been updated slightly.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
i wonder if the parsec-project ever will generate a playable demo or something… if you ask me i’d say that this is just a bunch of guys playing around with 3ds max or something.. :)
but i hope i’m wrong, the screenshots look damn nice..
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
The screenshots look REALLY nice and Ive been waiting for some kind of release…..all we ever get is screen shots and movies. Seems like the website has sid for quite awhile now to expect some kind of release in a couple of months. I think it just may be a few guys playing around with 3ds max!!!!
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I understand how you guys are feeling, but it’s not that easy to balance one’s studies and work with something like the Parsec project. Everyone who has been to LinuxTag in Germany (http://www.linuxtag.org) last June has had a chance to play an early version of Parsec on one of four computers hooked up over to local net; the response has been overwhelmingly positive and gratifying. Still, we have to balance Parsec with other duties, so some schedule slips seem to be inevitable. I’m not going to give you any specific dates now, because a whole lot of things could interfere with them, but the upcoming release of the self-running demo is our highest priority right now.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Yeah, great … of course I can’t view the Quicktime movies under Linux, and of course I only found out *after* downloading it. So, I’m forced to download the significantly larger MPEGs instead. Oh, the joy. A small hint (“This Quicktime movie, which is about an upcoming *Linux* game, can *not* be viewed under Linux!”) sure would have been nice. In case “Quicktime 3.0+” actually *implies* the need for a Sorenson capable player, I apologize for this rant. I don’t know too much about that codec stuff … it still bothers me, though.