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Thread: New dances in publish 11

Tiaga
Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:53 pm
#14

We will probably see them unlocked as time progresses. Kind of like how the musicians have an instrument sound in their new song, but don't have the instrument yet. The Casino will be a good bet to see at least one.



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Tiaga
Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:36 pm
#15

It's still coming, just no announced date at the moment.



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Nostromoo
Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:05 am
#16

Woe! So many replies and I've not been paying attention. Okay, yes the "rumour" can be substantiated as I havevideos of the dances. But, there is a catch


I have the videos of all the new dances, but I have no where to put them. As said above, the names I give here are not necessrilythe names of the real dances, they are what they are referred to in game. "Basic" is actually called "Goofy" in game, "Popular" is "Pogo", "Exotics1-4"are "Belly" dances, "Theatrical" is called "Jazz1" etc etc.


The new dances I have videos for are: "Breakdance", "Pei Yi", "Tumble", "Tatooine Jazz", "Chinese" and "Bowie". Other 'dance' animations include some strange 'movement' flourishes that shift the character a few feet either left, right, backwards or forwards. I don't have videos of those yet and I'm not sure what dance it is supposed to be used for, it looks almost poplock or breakdance style.


The videos are all WMV9 format, and are around 10MB each. Apart from the break dance video which is 30MB because it contains so many animations. There are 39 animations associated with "break dance" in the game as there are 3 positions (each break dance position =2 base flos,8 regular flos,2 transitional flos) and 3 taunts.


The people who have seen the videos have liked them. So I would like to host them publically somewhere. Any suggestions as to a good reliable place to put them?



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Nostromoo
Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:14 am
#17




Kyorlana wrote:
My guess would be it's there in prep for the Hutt casino...
Though I have yet to check whether just dancing theatrical for say 500kxp or perhaps 800k xp would 'unlock' the next stage. Someone with more time could check that theory out perhaps.




My own theory on that Choreography teacher is that whe will give you Theatrical2 which is just the alternate base dance that already exists but cannot be 'danced'. Just a guess. Trouble is I can't find her script to work out what she says after telling you to practise theatrical some more. It's a bit of a crappy prize seeing as the base dance doesn't come out right anyway, but as the alternate base dance is not yet avaiable I figured it was a reasonable guess.


As an aside, Theatrical and Western have existed as available assets since publish 10, but were only 'unlocked' right before publish 11. So anything new in the publish 11 tre files does not mean we will get it soon.




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Schardour
Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:02 pm
#18






Nostromoo wrote:

I have the videos of all the new dances, but I have no where to put them.




Can somebody help him out here?




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Nostromoo
Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:16 pm
#19

I appear to have stumbled upon the following site that contains videos of 3 of the dances I have been talking about. The quailty is very low on this site, but I have seen much higher quality videos that could be hosted elsewhere perhaps. But of course the files are larger than these. The break dance one is especially nice



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picklesSW
Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:47 pm
#20

Yeah, ok, I really don't get it. Unless this guy is sneaking into SOE's Austin offices at night, he recorded them by hacking the client, which means they've already been published. They look finished and polished.

Why the hell aren't they in the game?




Tiaga
Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:22 pm
#21



Nostromoo wrote:

Kyorlana wrote:
My guess would be it's there in prep for the Hutt casino...
Though I have yet to check whether just dancing theatrical for say 500kxp or perhaps 800k xp would 'unlock' the next stage. Someone with more time could check that theory out perhaps.

My own theory on that Choreography teacher is that whe will give you Theatrical2 which is just the alternate base dance that already exists but cannot be 'danced'. Just a guess. Trouble is I can't find her script to work out what she says after telling you to practise theatrical some more. It's a bit of a crappy prize seeing as the base dance doesn't come out right anyway, but as the alternate base dance is not yet avaiable I figured it was a reasonable guess.

As an aside, Theatrical and Western have existed as available assets since publish 10, but were only 'unlocked' right before publish 11. So anything new in the publish 11 tre files does not mean we will get it soon.




That is correct. I had the same guess and it was confirmed by a dev. The choreography teacher is there to teach the 2 versions of new dances. Not just theatrical, but any other new dance that is added in the future as well. To be able to learn it, you have to do quite literally what it says - practice the dance. It's not linked directly to total dancing xp, instead it's linked specifically to how much you perform the lower level version of the dance. When you've done it enough, you'll get a pop-up telling you that you are proficient with the dance, and that you should seek out someone to teach you advanced moves.

No, I don't know exactly how much you need to practice theatrical before you are considered proficient. It's certainly more than a little - I spent a lot of time yesterday dancing theatrical getting the timings and never got any pop-up. I would have done a double-take if I did, as I didn't have the answer then.



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Panthu
Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:32 pm
#22

The neato thing this tells us though is that they can track how much we've done each dance... maybe this could lead to some customization and uniqueness in Dancers one day.




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Ravenmist
Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:03 pm
#23

Anyone else notice that of the 3 videos we can see on that site that every one of the Base dances is going to be bugged just like Formal, Lyrical and Theatrical? Are they retarded or what? Man I hope they get around to fixing the problem with these dances.. not sure I can take having 3 or 6 more dances with broken base dances.
Nostromoo
Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:08 pm
#24




Schardour wrote:

Note the number of flourishes on the "Tumble" dance.


10?


Yeah it's wierd I know. Popular also has 10 animations assigned to it. You'll only get 8 of them, probably the first 8, in game though.




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Ka_ren
Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:00 am
#25

The dances look interesting. I just hope the path to unlocking them is better than the one for theatrical. And I'm still working on eliminating that base step from my routine. Argh!



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Nostromoo
Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:34 am
#26




picklesSW wrote:
Yeah, ok, I really don't get it. Unless this guy is sneaking into SOE's Austin offices at night, he recorded them by hacking the client, which means they've already been published. They look finished and polished.

Why the hell aren't they in the game?




Well there are several ways to get videos like that. Some more drastic than others. To do it the elegant way doesn't actually require much in the way of hacking, if you can call it hacking at all.Plus there is a lot of video editing to do before the dance is actually a dance. But I digress.


As for why they are not in the game yet, as I said Theatrical was "in game" as soon as publish 10 was pushed, but they were not unlocked until a few days before the fact they were down appear in the patch notes. Perhaps these dances are waiting on something else to be completed first, for JTL bugs to be filtered out, or just because. Or perhaps they are already available, but not announced so people canstumble upon them by accident. My question originally was, can we get them yet and if so how, as the necessary animationsdo already exist?


IMO this is something to look forward to at least. This is a great addition to the entertainment professions and I'm pleased they as a dancer I will be getting some lovin' at some point.


*goes back to sneaking around offices at night*




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