Demo Screenies

[wei yau]

During the hiatus, I learned how to manually edit demo files to create specific scenes with my characters posed just so.  Since Homecoming, however, I have lost that skill and I think the tools I used no longer work.   To make matters worse, the demo files and original screenies are on a hard drive that I can't quite access anymore.

 

Still, I've got a copies of a few of these images and wanted to share them here.  They are compressed and not as hi-res as the original screenshots, however.

This is the Army of the Dragon under the command of Tian Shang Lung, the Celestial Dragon.  She's the BIG BAD in my head canon and having an army befits her quite well.

I used the Romulus portion of the ITF map to stage the review of her army.  She is flanked by the Fallen Zodiac, her closest advisors and lieutenants.  Behind her is her personal guard, Terracotta Dragon Warriors.  Leading her army is the Dragon General and his Swordsmen.  The army itself is comprised of Soldiers, Pikemen, Archers and Axemen, supplemented by a cadre of Dragon Sorcerers.

 

 

Edited December 15, 2021 by wei yau

[wei yau]

Another fun thing I learned to do in demo editing was using FX features.  The sequence below looked good in demo playback with the Celestial Dragon hovering in the air and raising her hand as she cast her munificence upon her Army.  The FX would cascade through the assembled kneeling ranks, as each wave hit, the soldiers would rise and feel the power of the Dragon coursing through them.

This series of screenies is the best I have to try and illustrate this:

 

[Trike]

+1 for using “munificence”. 😎

 

I wish I knew how to demoedit.

[_Kai_]

You can still demoedit!

You can find information on how to use Tequila to do playback and such here and if you go to https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Main_Page and search 'demo' it will bring up all the Demo Editing/recording/model names pages, some of the newer models are missing but you can find out their names by recording content with them in it.

[Darmian]

If you ask nicely on the Discord there's a Demorecord player for the HC Launcher too.

[wei yau]

I used demoedit to create something to show off all the Zodiac characters I have created.  My inspiration were the wraparound connected covers from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.  I only got as far as making one for Rat characters and one for Ox characters.  I really should finish this, but will need to update some roster changes.

Also, loved that in Demoedit, I could create giant-size characters like Maxi Mouse below: