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About this mod
Brand new Vault-Tec self remade cartoon from the intro, seamlessly merged into the original.
- Permissions and credits
- Mirrors
===Description===
I love Fallout 2. For me it’s one of my favorite games, I consider it one of the most well-developed games in my taste… well, almost. I’m aware of some of his flaws compared to the original, but that’s not the point for today.
See, I have one huge issue with the original intro. To be honest, the cartoon part was applied horribly (at least in aesthetic terms), Vault Boy in the third dimension is one of the most cursed thing I’ve ever seen. On the flip side, I understand that the developers had a limited period of time making the game and probably didn’t had a 2D animator at the time in the first place; it’s actually impressive that they solve this issue in this way as it presents in-game.
As technology goes on a few decades away from release, the graphic design goes long way. Not only is more advanced but even more accessible than ever, now everyone can pick up any software to create whatever you want if you have enough will to learn and create and I certainly took this opportunity.
In my remake, I set up some major goals to follow. I took care of aesthetic aspects of animation and its quality, I wanted to be a fine mix between the classic and modern era of fallout (e.g. I took the original design of vault boy, and yet tried applying similar smooth, fluid movement animation for characters from Bethesda’s cartoons). Not only that, but I’ve tried to mix up a bit by adding additional frames and scenes that would benefit the overall appeal.
It wasn’t easy tho, I’ve spent around 200 to 300 hours making everything from scratch, but at the end of the day, I made myself proud. In fact (this may be hard to believe) it’s my first approach to 2D animation (I actually have rich experience in other fields in graphic design tho).
I encourage you to let me know what you think in the replies. I would appreciate constructive feedback from all of you.
===Mod Description===
Mod goes with two versions: colored and grayscaled.
===Installation Guide (and small PSA)===
Installation guide:
This method seems to work (at least for me). If you know a better method for mod installation, go for that.
1. Download the file from the link above and open using Winrar.
2. Choose the version (folder) which you are interested in (you can choose between colored and grayscaled) and open it.
3. Find your Fallout 2 game directory.
4. Drag archive content into Fallout 2 game directory.
5. (Optional) In <Fallout 2 game directory>/data/art/cuts flag intro.mve as “Read-only” (this could prevent from potential overwriting).
And this should work just fine.
Small PSA:
I’ve tried to convert the video file to MVE, it takes a few days to work this out but I somehow managed to pull this off. However tho, conversion is far from perfect; e.g. colors are a little bit distorted.
Down below I’ll leave the download link for source videos that I used to convert. If someone will managed to do a better job, then I’ll try to update it and credit the person who did it.
I’ve heard that Sfall allows to play AVI movie files, but I didn’t managed to figure out how.
Source videos: https://mega.nz/file/NV9C1IAb#DpvmzBLRJZgqKWrIbA4S7VrAiDj1fmscSinRrH3bteo
===Credits===
Animation, Backgrounds, Effects and other graphical elements done by Biedron
Interplay Entertainment Corp. and Black Isle Studios: Developers of Fallout 2 (Idea providers of the original intro)
ZeniMax Media Inc. and Bethesda Softworks LLC: The current owners of the Fallout IP (Any copyrighted elements in animation goes to them)
Music used: Louis Armstrong - A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Software used: Blender (2.79b, 2.93.1-4 LTS), GIMP 2.10.18
Special thanks to the creators of those software that made this project possible.
Source video converted with MVE Converter by Abel.
===Links===
I’ll leave some additional links, if someone will be interested.
Youtube video:
I love Fallout 2. For me it’s one of my favorite games, I consider it one of the most well-developed games in my taste… well, almost. I’m aware of some of his flaws compared to the original, but that’s not the point for today.
See, I have one huge issue with the original intro. To be honest, the cartoon part was applied horribly (at least in aesthetic terms), Vault Boy in the third dimension is one of the most cursed thing I’ve ever seen. On the flip side, I understand that the developers had a limited period of time making the game and probably didn’t had a 2D animator at the time in the first place; it’s actually impressive that they solve this issue in this way as it presents in-game.
As technology goes on a few decades away from release, the graphic design goes long way. Not only is more advanced but even more accessible than ever, now everyone can pick up any software to create whatever you want if you have enough will to learn and create and I certainly took this opportunity.
In my remake, I set up some major goals to follow. I took care of aesthetic aspects of animation and its quality, I wanted to be a fine mix between the classic and modern era of fallout (e.g. I took the original design of vault boy, and yet tried applying similar smooth, fluid movement animation for characters from Bethesda’s cartoons). Not only that, but I’ve tried to mix up a bit by adding additional frames and scenes that would benefit the overall appeal.
It wasn’t easy tho, I’ve spent around 200 to 300 hours making everything from scratch, but at the end of the day, I made myself proud. In fact (this may be hard to believe) it’s my first approach to 2D animation (I actually have rich experience in other fields in graphic design tho).
I encourage you to let me know what you think in the replies. I would appreciate constructive feedback from all of you.
===Mod Description===
Mod goes with two versions: colored and grayscaled.
===Installation Guide (and small PSA)===
Installation guide:
This method seems to work (at least for me). If you know a better method for mod installation, go for that.
1. Download the file from the link above and open using Winrar.
2. Choose the version (folder) which you are interested in (you can choose between colored and grayscaled) and open it.
3. Find your Fallout 2 game directory.
4. Drag archive content into Fallout 2 game directory.
5. (Optional) In <Fallout 2 game directory>/data/art/cuts flag intro.mve as “Read-only” (this could prevent from potential overwriting).
And this should work just fine.
Small PSA:
I’ve tried to convert the video file to MVE, it takes a few days to work this out but I somehow managed to pull this off. However tho, conversion is far from perfect; e.g. colors are a little bit distorted.
Down below I’ll leave the download link for source videos that I used to convert. If someone will managed to do a better job, then I’ll try to update it and credit the person who did it.
I’ve heard that Sfall allows to play AVI movie files, but I didn’t managed to figure out how.
Source videos: https://mega.nz/file/NV9C1IAb#DpvmzBLRJZgqKWrIbA4S7VrAiDj1fmscSinRrH3bteo
===Credits===
Animation, Backgrounds, Effects and other graphical elements done by Biedron
Interplay Entertainment Corp. and Black Isle Studios: Developers of Fallout 2 (Idea providers of the original intro)
ZeniMax Media Inc. and Bethesda Softworks LLC: The current owners of the Fallout IP (Any copyrighted elements in animation goes to them)
Music used: Louis Armstrong - A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Software used: Blender (2.79b, 2.93.1-4 LTS), GIMP 2.10.18
Special thanks to the creators of those software that made this project possible.
Source video converted with MVE Converter by Abel.
===Links===
I’ll leave some additional links, if someone will be interested.
Youtube video: