[B5JMS] B5:LotR TLaDiS - Some Observations, Questions, etc. (SPOILERS

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From: "Mac Breck" <macbreck at access995.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:03:47 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: B5:LotR TLaDiS - Some Observations, Questions, etc. (SPOILERS


> >The wheel had already been invented and perfected in Lightwave.  *Use*
the
> >wheel.  If necessary, tweak it some more, but *don't* go to different
> >software.  To change to Maya is to incur additional work and expense, and
> >leave yourself open to the possibility of errors and inconsistancies.
This
> >kind of thing really pisses me off.  The change makes no sense.  There
are
> >times to be conservative, and this was one of them.
> >
> >
>
> Understand, however, that we did not *have* that software, or those
images.  WB
> had literally lost all the CGI archives we gave them every season.  All we
were
> able to get, at the very last moment,  was a copy of the ship files we had
> given Sierra for the B5 game.  That's it.
>
>  jms
>
> (jmsatb5 at aol.com)
> (all message content (c) 2001 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
> permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
> and don't send me story ideas)

Oh My God, I didn't know that!  I am so sorry!   What the hell is wrong with
those people (WB)???  I feel sick to my stomach.  All that great work, IS
LOST?!?!?!  Didn't you guys keep copies of the files? the Lightwave models?
the Lightwave scenes?  Backups?  Anything?  This is beyond horrible.  This
is criminally stupid on WB's part.

I always kept backups of the stuff I created at work.  I never, ever,
*depended* on the company servers to back things up or keep track of things.

The idiots at WB probably threw it all out.  I've only personally
encountered stupidity on this level once before.  Did you know this when you
wrote "The Needs of Earth" ?

So, I guess re-rendering the CGI for Widescreen is now completely
impossible.

Is all of the Crusade stuff lost as well?


Mac Breck
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 22 Jan 2002 05:10:07 GMT
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>I am so sorry!   What the hell is wrong with
>those people (WB)???  I feel sick to my stomach.  All that great work, IS
>LOST?!?!?!  Didn't you guys keep copies of the files? the Lightwave models?
>the Lightwave scenes?  Backups?  Anything?

Babylonian Productions was not allowed to keep this material, it all had to be
turned over to WB each year, and what could have been maybe squirreled away at
NDEI was lost when that company went away.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2001 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
and don't send me story ideas)