Reporting Somewhat Live... Fan Festival!Follow

Can you hook the camera up to a laptop (or tablet) and have the laptop capture live from the camera?

Oops to forgetting the charger, I hate doing that... especially for something that (from what I read) can't use normal batteries and has to use a pack. Thanks for the info you two.

Anyways, a little more onto the base topic (rather then talking about digital cameras lol) Sarlos have you gotten around to putting up those photos or maybe zip/raring up the directory? {:lol:]

Ya, it would probably would Then again, it could be only a matter of time before they block alla at work too >_>

Awesome, thanks. Downloading now. 300megs isn't that bad hehe

Wow, looking through these and some of these are really cool. I immagine it'll be awhile before I would finish looking through em... Man there are a TON of these. I like all these cosplay pics, some of them were quite good. Like that SMN with the Carby Plush. That would have been cool to see.

Edited, Thu Mar 16 23:04:52 2006 by Tomec

Really want him walking around in body paint? Might have to ward off the NPC's! Look into fiber glass for plate armor. When done right, they look great! And you have plenty of time now...


You might be able to connect them, set the camera to video mode, but not actually record anything to the camera, set it to never power off, and run a screen capture program (along the lines of fraps or that software that comes w/ ATI’s all-in-wonder video cards) and have the notebook itself do the crunching while the camera just sends the feed?

Or, unless you flashed some special BIOS, write order will be card then onboard memory. So, only alternative would be to adjust the settings to a lower FPS, a higher compressed format, a bigger card or all of the above.

I'm heading to Mammoth Mtn. this weekend and will have a chance to try this out in the room...



Edited, Fri Mar 17 01:00:42 2006 by Cadell

Just like to say thank you guys for covering this, I appreciate the info.

Well, I was thinking Lycra over body paint, but we'll see. He tells me now that he would want to be a PLD in AF. So I'm going to look into that. Apparently he and I don't share the same idea of what people will cheer for.

I'm not going to start working on my costume just yet. I expect his dimensions to stay the same between now and then. I'm really hoping that mine are going to change, so I'm going to hold off. Besides, it will give me more time to think up good ideas. Clearly this years thought of a nomad moogle, which we decided too late to find apprpriate materials for, would never have worked.

He says I should go for Shiva, but I think I would be too cold. (No pun intended.) I suppose if they held it somewhere it was 80 degrees it might not be bad...I'd need to drop another 30 pounds first though.

Personally, I think that would be funny.

None-the-less, there is plenty of time to think about it. You never know, I may get to something I haven't seen yet and think, Now that would be cool.

Edit: Grammar for the win.

Edited, Fri Mar 17 09:17:00 2006 by Purril

Double Post FTW!

Edited, Fri Mar 17 10:10:50 2006 by Sarlos

We could always go as an actual adventuring party... just a thought...

Lately, I have been considering gearing myself up in Paladin Relic for the next festival. I have some experience working with aluminum sheets, and you can get the stuff dirt cheap from scrap yards. There is a metal shop in the Air Force Base next to where I work, so I may be able to do the work there. The problem I am running into is how I will fasten it all. Duct Tape would work, but is not exactly aesthetically pleasing...

I was thinking something along the lines of this. Ideally, I would use leather straps and buckles to hold everything in place. As for padding, when I did SCA stuff, we actually cut up those styrofoamy bedroll padding things for camping and used those to pad our armor.

The really confusing bit is how to make it look accurate to the game, when armor pieces seem to float above your character model...

For the appearance of floating shoulder pads and such, just place a few supports inside near the center. A crude ASCII example:

"Floating piece"
..........|||.......... -Small support(poles/small block of foam/etc)
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ -Shoulder of bodypiece


This should give the appropriate shadows and if the floating piece is curved enough, the supports will only really be visable from the side and even then they won't show much.