Missile Command - missile(bbb_07-15-08)

[BadBoyBill]

Pretty cool theme that makes use of the particle effect feature to make swf explosions all over the screen. Also be sure to get the video since the video is the background on this theme.

[brian_hoffman]

No cities... Im shocked...
:)

Those explosions look awesome.

I need your new build stat! hehehe

[BadBoyBill]

Those would be the hills in front of the city.

[brian_hoffman]

I remember there being cities on the hills... Those missles got to destroy somthin other than hill side. :)

Google image "rampage" and there is some citys that would look good.

[JoyMonkey]

Those explosions do look awesome!
The filenames in the zip all seem to be miss-spelled though; shouldn't they be 'missile' and not 'missle'?
And can you upload the video someplace?

[brian_hoffman]

good catch joymonkey.. I thought I was the only one that had issues with the naming convention.:D:D:D:D Im glad to see even the master make mistakes..

Just givin you a hard time billy .... hehehe


Forget the video... Give us a new HS version and the theme :)

[JoyMonkey]

The theme works fine in the current HS beta (as long as you rename all the files ;))

[brian_hoffman]

I didnt realize he uploaded it already. Man he was telling me the other day how he made the thread for theme announcments strictly to announce a theme wait get feedback then post...

As I was posting my themes right off... Man what a catch 22.. My themes still arent approved..

Perhaps I should just mega upload them... nudge nudge

[BadBoyBill]

The only reason I named it Missle is because the emumovie was named missle so I assumed he had it right. So someone was wrong before me.

Your themes were approved before I even posted, just the SNES theme was unapproved because we dont have a SNES section yet. I'm very busy, and didnt have time to do that just yet, but I did approve your MAME theme.

I will rename the file, and get to the SNES section as soon as I can.

[brian_hoffman]

Im just giving you a hard time.. u feelin any better?

[BadBoyBill]

Still super sick, I'll be ready tho.

[brian_hoffman]

Me too.. Ive been ready. It's ON!

[amchine]

Finally had a chance to snag this. Looks awesome! I need to learn some flash asap.

[Dazz]

I just noticed this, but Circo's EmuMovie file name for this rom is incorrect. The rom name is missile, but Circo's video (SQ) is missle.

[BadBoyBill]

ya, i caught some crap for that when i first released the theme. Circo, can you rename the file in question?

[Circo]

The only reason I named it Missle is because the emumovie was named missle so I assumed he had it right. So someone was wrong before me.

Your themes were approved before I even posted, just the SNES theme was unapproved because we dont have a SNES section yet. I'm very busy, and didnt have time to do that just yet, but I did approve your MAME theme.

I will rename the file, and get to the SNES section as soon as I can.

This is finally fixed on the ftp and the next torrent will be fixed as well. lol

[Circo]

I noticed that the video background was a little grainy, try replacing it with this one, recaptured 1024x768 looks sharp! and only 3mb!

www.emumovies.com/hyperspin/missile.flv

[paulstevens]

I noticed that the video background was a little grainy, try replacing it with this one, recaptured 1024x768 looks sharp! and only 3mb!

www.emumovies.com/hyperspin/missile.flv

Great Idea!

However, does this open the door to grainy issues if others try making themes where the video is the background?

I know this is the exception and NOT the rule.

The HQ emumovies are captured 640x480 so would look perfect as a background at that resolution.

But HS defaults to 1024x768 for everything.

Just an observation and NOT a complaint or request. Just a warning that some other movies might want to be recaptured at 1024x768 if the video is to be the background.

BBB can you say Asteroids???

[Circo]

its really only the older games that you will notice, more modern games it's hard to tell, but when all you have is a line....

I will say if you are doing a specific theme that has full screen video, I am more than happy to revisit that game and make a new video. Just to keep the video as sharp as the theme, If you were doing a generic theme with all background videos, I think 640x480 would be perfectly fine, and that it what that HQ set was designed for.

However, I am going to redo this video again, all the action is behind the wheel, going to cut and paste a few sequences together, blur effect it, and remove title sequence. Give me a few minutes, will be badass!!!

Do you need a new asteroids vid?

[paulstevens]

Okay it's already been 3 minutes....

tick tick tick...

[BadBoyBill]

Cool, thanks Circo, I'll keep this in mind for future themes done this way.

[Circo]

Sorry had to take a smoke break :)

Ok I have redone the video so that it should look great in this theme, let me know what you think. Just use the same link that I already provided.

Just loaded the video into hyperspin, can't begin to express how pleased with myself I am :p

[Circo]

Anyone try it with the new video? Better?

[The Loafer]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to let you know I tried the newer missile.flv and I do find it is better, seems jagged a bit but that's the game's original res for you but the point is, it certainly is cleaner.

But why was I revisiting this older thread? That's because when the HyperSpin wheel was spinning, I noticed when you leave the selection "Missile Command", at the top left you can see a message "no background image" appear.

Sooo, I download the theme to take a look in case something was missing from the torrent, and there doesn't appear to be BUT I noticed you have the following folders (with the included properly named files):

artwork2
artwork3
particle
wheel

Took a look at the XML and it seems to make reference to an "artwork4" file, would that be the missing culprit?

Rob

[BadBoyBill]

I know why that is now, its because theres no background file so it resorts to the default background, 2 options.
Change you default background png to a black picture.
Add a black backround png to your missle command folder. I'll try to fix this in the download.

[The Loafer]

Yep, I took a look and noticed ddragon.png in the background folder was just a black screen, so I copied it, renamed the copy missile.png and voila, no more errors. Thanks BBB.