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Is it possible to have a 3D intro (I'm almost certain it wouldn't be, but I thought I would ask anyways)?

I think if we did a pre rendered out scene and used the particle engine we could come up with a solution.

I don't think that it would be hard from the technical point of view to add video playback capabilities to the client.

But the question is: Would 3d-rendered videos fit into TMWs graphic style?

I would rather play a rendered video instead of adding and maintaining 3d support to the client (which also brings a bunch of new dependencies)

You should check out the indy game "Bastion". It play great, looks great and 3dish, still something like this as a video would fit TMW

Len wrote:Is it possible to have a 3D intro (I'm almost certain it wouldn't be, but I thought I would ask anyways)?

I dislike any kind of presentation which could lead to a wrong idea of game content (japanime art, 3D ...)
This game has enough good artistic content (especially len's one) not to need this kind of subtlety.
Cutscene would be nice; and if kook gets enough good help, client will soon have a video feature.

I did my best at making one

http://youtu.be/URH8YyRXZG4

2 utilities to record screen videos on linux platforms:

• recordMyDesktop: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php
• xvidcap: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

video editor:

• PiTiVi: http://www.pitivi.org/
• Kdenlive: http://kdenlive.org/
• OpenShot (I didn't try)