I hope G. Lucas will don't mind
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hehehe..
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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
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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
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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
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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
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in well ... a day or some...
-Then ...
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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
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and add some FXs
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so you can feel like you are in the space!
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Look at all those flying "meteorites" and other space objects! and not only
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look down ... from where the text is scrolling
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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
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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
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some simple changes and here we go
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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
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Feel free to comment - if you don't like it - tell me why
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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 ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)