I hope G. Lucas will don't mind
hehehe..
I will tell you a story - I was working on this guide for a quite a long time - from about a two weeks, and last for 2 days I was working literally NON-STOP with 4 hours of sleep every day and few hours to buy and make some food :] ...
Maybe it looks simple so I will tell you a developer/designer story:
At first guide was ready few days ago, it was working and MAYBE even it was better ... but ...
A weight of Embassy turn from ~5MB into ~40MB .... and it was JUST one simple guide ... where will be the space for other guides and all stuff, models, etc ?? ... Embassy need to load/open ~as fast as possible. ~40MB! HUGE for people with limited offers or slower connection ... drama...
So ... I asked my self - how to make it and don't change a weight of a file as much ...
I started do redesign everything ... EVERYTHING.... instead of Hi-Quality movie clips (which I DID compressed before AS much AS was possible to make it VISIBLE (HQ) for a visitor) I decided to use "pictures" ...
And ... this was a beginning ...
I know it looks simple ...
I know
Now imagine:
- "Text - for a guide" ... I did my best - can change some mistakes if someone will spot some x)
- ~40 Screenshots - each one edited. Let say this is easy, just take a time.
- ALL of the "Screens" are animated so ... while the text is scrolling, everything must be just "at the right time".
-Well... thanks to Unity3D and "Animation" tool - which is very, very powerful, I was able to do this in well ... a day or some...
-Then ... Skybox .. which some can say isn't very high quality, but it all depends ... on how much MB you want to give for just a skybox ... so I did my best and add some FXs so you can feel like you are in the space! Look at all those flying "meteorites" and other space objects! and not only look down ... from where the text is scrolling Imagine this with Oculus Rift (I need to do something with this head tracking - I will work on it, I cannot make even a test as I don't own Oculus But will do something in the nearest future with Headtracking for Embassy Rifters )
-And some simple scripting to make those PLAY/PAUSE/RESET/EMBASSY buttons ... but literally ... ~100 #lines together.
During that a lot of test runs some simple changes and here we go
It looks simple
I hope it will be a good guide for every one who want to understand in 411 seconds how to use blockchain.info. (basics )
Feel free to comment - if you don't like it - tell me why if you like it - share with others!
AAhh! And I nearly forgot, my story ^ ^ have to answer to a question : what is the weight of Embassy now?
~8-9MB