For any unfamiliar with how FF14 dungeon intros tend to go, a few references:
– “The Twinning”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBIRYjP1NNM
– “The Fractal Continuum”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EaPDO6pPuE
– “The Aetherochemical Research Facility”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJyrLSFLDA
Behind-the-scenes commentary:
– I am not actually 100% sure if The Bird Cage is located in the Ayala System of the Mirror Universe. I am assuming it is the mirror of the Prime Universe’s “Facility 4028” based on Amar Singh’s presence, plus the whole recycled assets from that same map. Though it might be the mirror of Facilty 2047 as well.
– I was deciding between having the opening shot be in either the prison tower or the data center, decided on the latter in the end as it was more visually striking with the flashing lights.
– There were some extra scenes that I wanted to squeeze in, but as FF14 dungeon intros usually only range from 23 to 28 seconds, mine as it is already exceeded that time frame by quite a bit.
– I also did not want to shorten it further than what I had, as the current length happened to sync-up with the music quite well.
– On the topic of music, I initially planned on using music from FF14 for this, but found that one of the possible tracks for this particular TFO to be quite suitable for my purposes.
– Said in-game music title seems to be “DS9 Ambient 3”, from digging around the game’s FSB files. If anyone was curious.
– Forcefield sound effect sourced from https://www.trekcore.com/audio/
– DiscoPicard Reshade preset by CaptainWallis FX: https://www.nexusmods.com/startrekonline/mods/7
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Finally something to send to my friends who play FF14 but have sto accounts they've never touched.
What are you using to make the graphics look so nice?
Not a bad idea honestly.