N33D H3LP ! I've been pwnz0red by a bug

Die bug DIE !

Ohhh how I hate that. You know when things are going wrong and there's no reason for that.

First, I had the sad surprise to see that even my roxxor laptop can't run wow and record video at the same time. Well it can but with every video settings down to the ground and only 10-20 frames per second + a few freezes.But that's ok, I 've been used to record at less than 5 frames per seconds with my old PC, speeding things up and deleting freezed frames one by one. I can deal with that.

But now is another problem, much much more annoying.
Wowmodelviewer bugs...


What is quite strange to me is that it happens :
- with the actual version of the viewer + the wotlk I'm playing daily without any bug.
- with an older wow (2.4.3) + wmv 0.5.09b, on a separate hard drive (was working fine for "Le Terrorist").
Clothes are totally bugged too, same bug as for characters, textures are the right ones but "missplaced", like several time the same piece of mapping repeated.
When I browse NPC's, the color of their skin is pitch black.
Objects, spells, items, creatures and world seem to be ok though. I can make a 100% murlocs movie whenever I want to.

Iknow I've been a naughty boy and I've been playing with textures...
But I never touched any WoW files, just using Texmod that finds, saves and modifys Direct3D textures in DirectX applications. Benefits are that you don't have to modify any files of your application's installation and you don't need any game specific modding tools. I can't see why this utility would affect wowmodelviewer this way. Once again, thanks Mekkatorke, WoW works fine without any texture bugs.

The worst thing is I don't know shit about the way wowmodelviewer and textures work. I asked and searched around and it seems to be an like an orphan disease...

I'll keep on searching, a little more delay before next machinima.

Another bad news is Youtube that is taking down some of my machinimas for copyrighted reasons. First it was "Why Do Birds" and now it's "Something Stupid". I guess both the Carpenters and the Sinatras needed money for the cryochamber and they might have thought I was stealing from them.



Let's end with 2 GOOD NEWS !
It's been now a month that "The Terrorist" is featured in the french Youtube iPhone selection !



And there's now an Olibith group on Facebook, thanks a lot to Joanna and the 19 members !!!


Thanks for reading this long complain, looks like it had to came out.

Rocky Ogre Picture Show

I see you've met my faithful handyman

Things are going fine.
I see now what's possible and what's not. But I'll try to check if impossible things are flexible, so it might take some time. ^^

The Magical Mystery Tour

Not over yet, many things left to do but I'm broke, so be it.

I can finally machinimate again !!!!!
A desk, right there in front of me ! With an DSL line working !! Electricity !! A chair !!
Feels good after 3 month living in a warzone breathing white dust and smelling solvants.
Just when the New Wowmodelviewer is finally out and working ! Just great.


I'm now working for one of the biggest Star of Azeroth !
For some contractual reason, I can not mention any name yet, all I can tell you is that it's gonna be a live concert in Dalaran. The video is gonna be about this special evening but also about the Star ; the little moments I'll be able to witness and all those fans from all over the world (of Warcraft).

Yep that's a lot of gnomes, but never enough to me.

From a machinima point of view, I plan on testing a lot of new tools and tricks with this video.
I got to create a huge crowd, well as big as I can, I need smooth and wide camera moves, some textures might need a little relooking and of course the scenery with lights and effects... So, of course, there will be lot's of things to learn and many problems to solve for me, so I can't give any release estimation now. I'll have to watch several concert video to dig for ideas and things to spoof, as usual. Any propositions on what I should watch is welcome^^.

Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone.

Happy New Machinima Year !

I wish you all the best things in life,
those who are free you know...
I'll start a new machinima this month, it will be a concert video, more infos here soon.
Lots of love from the Gnome.