Fallout 2 mod Fallout Sonora 1.14 and Sonora Dayglow 1.14 Vanilla Translation

@Cambragol

If hosting the English mve is an issue.. i can provide it via my ftp if you want.. the hi-res .avi version of it is already sitting in there, so it's just a matter of me uploading it to my ftp.. actually all Sonora vids are hi-res including the old a.k.a 1.09 and older BoS ship explosion video. the credits.avi is made both in english with AI Ron and in Russian with original narrator.. so adding in the AI Ron credits.mve would just be convinience..

just in case my router is frequently attacked by certain chineese hacker groups, that exploit to join it to their botnet.. unfortuneatly it has side effects causing my ftp to go offline.. the only cure for the hacker damage and restoration of ftp is router reboot for the time being, as no knowledge exist on how do theese hackers manage to break in, however their hacks only remain in router's RAM, so it's easy to flush that..

In any case if my archive is offline please do inform me in my hd upscale thread about this, i'll do a quick reboot and the archiv should be online agin..
 
@gustarballs1983 sounds good to me. Though I still have to link it for you somewhere, unless you can pull it out of the .dat. On github it is possible to host files that are attached to the 'release', so for now I can stick it there. Your avi version is probably a better bet for people who want to view or share it outside of the game itself. I just wanted to include it in the 'source' for completeness.

You should upload the avi to Youtube or something, and link back to the Translation/Nevada Band. Too few people know about Sonora as it is.
 
Cambragol said:
@gustarballs1983 sounds good to me. Though I still have to link it for you somewhere, unless you can pull it out of the .dat. On github it is possible to host files that are attached to the 'release', so for now I can stick it there. Your avi version is probably a better bet for people who want to view or share it outside of the game itself. I just wanted to include it in the 'source' for completeness.

You should upload the avi to Youtube or something, and link back to the Translation/Nevada Band. Too few people know about Sonora as it is.
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I'm not sure you realise what are you talking about, or who're you talking to.. ;p
Anyways in simple words, no need to pass the mve to me..

how do you think i msnaged to upscale your video? without having access to one?!

And as for the .avi perhaps you don't realise this but with moderately recent sfall one can play xvid based .avi in fallout 2 engine, hence all the effort i've put into converting and upscaling those videos... they simply look far better ingame than the, originals, especially if you can't afford vintage 14" CRT, and use a standard flatscreen 21" or more screen with at least fullhd resolution.

I dedicated myself to this, and managed to upscale not only fo1 and fo2, but also last hope, resurrection, Sonora, and fo:Yesterday as an ongoing development spits out more videos, so do I upscale them, and due to beeing in good terms with PJ a.k.a hexer, i get the raw file and convert it to both mve and upscale + convert to avi. As some footage is real world footage it also gets other video processing such as de-interlacing, or camera shake reduction in addition to upscaling. The mve has to be of crap quality due to length of some videos which are roughly over ~20min, so i'm forced to use fo2 compression method in order to have decent file size in mve.. roughly 2GB ugly 640x480 file the paradox is that the fullhd xvid avi of the same length, not only looks far better but if done right is also several times smaller than the mve.. ofcourse for the small mve videos i usually go the full blown quality way, so it ends up bigger than the original mve..


TL : DR
1.i have the mve, no need for passing it to me
2.The avis i make can be viewed in fo2 engine with sfall some codecs and proper settings
 
Cambragol said:
Derrr....

Host away then!

Side note: I love the 640x480 glory. I couldn't watch it any other way! The grain makes it feel right...
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Heh it's not exactly grain, its dithering..
Sonora's videos are created the old fo1 compression method. This method is low compression big filesize, and it automaticslly applies floyd-steinberg dithering, a sort of like flickering grain video technique to improove low res video quality display..
true fo2 vids ain't as lucky.. there are two compression methods here standard and high quality compression. hq compression means small size but damn ugly image, the dithering may be optionally applied on top, to try to remedy the already ugly image quality, however when video is ~9GB in size with the fo1 compression method, the fo2 methods yeald 1,9GB file (both for the same ~21min video). It is far more reasonable to provide a hires hq avi video, and just have whatever for the mve, cuz noone wants a 9GB video file for a ~600MB game..
The avis can be made to have sane size while maintaining quality footage.

Original fo videos are not that bad, though the ones that actually are 320x240 like the cathedral explosion really do benefit from the upscale, as 320x240 looks terrible on big screen, and ai does wonders in basically "reinventing the wheel" at hires.. so far i've only made crude 720p vids, although if i get an upgrade to my dram-ssd ram modules i may try to start running this new ai that topaz made that could rerender to even 16k and then downscale to 4k. This way the image quality is even crispier, though it has a hefty requirement of 32GB of ram where my mobo could fit only 8GB. However if i get upgrades to the dram ssd, i could use a super snappy pagefile up to 64GB up from 16GB, normaly it wouldn't be possible at all, cause there never were 8GB ddr2 800MT ram sticks, however i've foud guys that produce custom ram sticks for sole purpose of maximizing ppl's rigs amount of ram.. so i thought why not try...
 
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