#WarNeverChanges

[mapleleigh]

"War Never Changes" 💥💙💛☢️ #gamergirl #gamergirlsofinstagram #gamergirlfriend #nerd #nerdygirl #mapleleigh #fallout4 #fallout #bethesda #warneverchanges #vaulttec #childrenofadam #dogmeat (at Boston, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck0YZD5OVDv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mangor]

... Canada intensifies bombing of Los Angeles ...

[vicsage2005]

"Did you ever try to put a broken piece of glass back together? Even if the pieces fit, you can't make it whole again the way it was. But if you're clever, you can still use the pieces to make other useful things. Maybe even something wonderful, like a mosaic. Well, the world broke just like glass. And everyone's trying to put it back together like it was, but it'll never come together the same way." Words of inspiration as only Fallout can deliver - one of my favorite game series. #fallout #brotherhoodofsteel #warneverchanges #nerdlyfe #collectibles #ilovevideogames https://www.instagram.com/p/CnyKT3Ls_WR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stonedninja]

It’s been a long one.

It’s been a harsh one.

And I almost forgot

*almost*

My purpose

For fighting in this war

AGAIN!

I had been tainted,

And blinded

Of the beautiful things.

That I had cultivated.

The simple things.

The mundane things.

That meant nothing

But everything.

The miracles

The existence.

That I had wept for

For years & years .

Do not let my illness

Deceive you all

Of the

Glory I have spread

Of the

Overflow of life

That I have given

To

&

For

all that come in my presence.

As I am

Still

As I am.

As I have always been.

Super

I am still strong.

Recess at war is unheard of.

A General’s job

Is truly

Thankless.

Excuse my absence.

I had a worthy opponent

Who knew not

How pure my power

Exists in me.

War is all I know, darling

Until the end of existence itself

My vessel will ALWAYS prosper.

[girrulez]

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Posted this the other day on TikTok! Fall Vibes brings Fallout vibes ☢️☢️☢️ #fallout #fallout4 #falloutcosplay #bethesda #bethesdagamestudios #warneverchanges https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQf6StgIcN/?utm_medium=tumblr

[makebritaingreatagain]

Warhammer is for everyone.

Even me.

[inspectorspacetimeee]

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To whoever I was playing Fallout 76 with today, thank you for this hilarious encounter 

[jarjarbinxguy]

Our war hero’s

[thats-on-point]

Clip: US Intel Helping Ukraine Mount Their Defense (Clean)

[addison1992]

I went Fallout themed for my locker at work 😂 💣👍😎🤠 @fallout @bethesda @bethesdagamestudios @hamiltonsbudandbloom #fallout #fallout4 #falloutnewvegas #fallout3 #warneverchanges #vaultboy #nukacola #special #101 #vault101 #vault111 #nuclear #videogame #stickers #locker #decoration #hamiltonsbudandbloom #brokenarrow #okahoma #budtender #dispensary #dispensarylife (at Hamiltons) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdDQz74upvY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[murkateer-blog]

🎶WEST VIRGINIAAAAAHHHH🎶 🎶MOUNTAIN MOMMAAAAA🎶 🎶TAKE ME HOOOOOOME🎶 🎶COUNTRY ROOOOOOOADS 🎶 #fallout76 #fallout #bethesda #powerarmor #fallout76beta #warneverchanges (at Musselburgh, Midlothian) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqGQc4ZDltR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7fexe8h22suw

[allycatblu]

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#pumpkin #warneverchanges #memes #forfun #fall https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQIvzrgZ4z/?utm_medium=tumblr

[aft3rdarkshark]

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Okay...what in the hell? * #BinxTV #LITScommunity #twitch #livestream #gamer #gamersunite #fallout #welcomehome #pipboy #warneverchanges #fallout4 #nukaworld #fallout3 #sarcasm #playstationnation #playstation4 #ps4 #nukaworld #falloutshelter #pride2018 #TwitchKittens

[markteare]

Fallout 4: TV Effects

For the opening scene in Fallout 4 we had Ron Perlman return and the voice of the newscaster reading the news while the bombs dropped. The task to create the newscast and make it look like it was on the TV fell to me. Unfortunately we were not going to support video as textures in the engine so I had to find a clever way to work around that limitation.

I had previously written a Max script to build stepped UV keys so I could put my flip book textures from particles onto geometry. Using this I could basically get video from After Effects to an animated texture in the game. To prove this could work as our solution I created a test space to record my video, baked out and quickly animated an actor, stubbed in the prop meshes and background map, and then put the resulting animation into a texture on the screen. I added a looping layer of screen warp and high res animating noise to create the look of the old television broadcast.

My first test included still frames as commercial to break up the broadcast because I had no idea yet how much time we had to fill if the player was not progressing the scene.

As the test footage of the news anchor sat in the game it became clear the looping animation was not in alignment with the dialog. I had hoped this would be small enough to get away with because of the crude implementation and lack of control it afforded. In the end it was not because this was something we were directing the player to pay close attention to.

With the help of Rick Vicens and the animation team we created a plan to fill the time with a series on mo-capped animations all ending in the idle pose shown in the picture at the top. The final lines would be one long unique animation mo-capped to match. It occurs to me this may be the only time in gaming history mo-cap was recorded for a texture:)

Along the way I had the idea to add in an old commercial from the Fallout 3 advertising instead of the still frames. Due to limitations in texture space I had to resort to cutting up loops from the commercial and then filling it the timing to match the audio.

Once we had the updated animation I rebuilt my fake actor asset as a real actor with better clothes and a baked out facegen face courtesy of tech artist Felipe Noguiera. Now we could play the animations and have his mouth move without hand animating it. We set up the mocap data and an idle and captured it as video in the engine.

The last step was to use the looping idles to match the Ron Perlman dialog as closely as possible. To do this we used the old brute force approach. I was currently crunching to finish VFX for the game so animator Barry Nardone stepped in to help. He loaded the lines into max and stitched together combinations of the looping idles to match each one.

Here are the final assets in game:

And people found my recording studio as well:)

[makebritaingreatagain]

War. War never changes.

Just started reading Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

The authors style is clumsy, rambling and disjointed. It reminds me allot of 'Remembrance Of Things Past' by Marcel Proust in that respect. But where Proust, as you might expect of a french aristocrat, is flowery in his prose, and talks of ladies fashions, the smell of a flower, the taste of a biscuit, Vonnegut is spartan in his prose, few details, more like George Orwell, never using a long or uncommon word where a short or common one will do, but almost to the point of being childlike in simplicity. I don't know if Kurt Vonnegut's other books are like this. It does make you think, and the author confirms that war makes you tough. It even makes the women who stay at home tough, as they learn to get on without men around to do the heavy lifting, and the dirty work; they get jobs in factories, as reporters, journalists, maybe even work in construction. It seems that war is a very emancipating thing for women. Maybe that's why they were so keen to hand goose feathers out to young men, encouraging them to run off to war and kill and die. Maybe that's why, even after women had been given the right to vote, we still had another world war, even though feminists told us that there would be no more wars if we let them vote. Gets the old noggin joggin.

I noticed this little gem on page 30: "Billy, after all, had contemplated torture and hideous wounds at the beginning and the end of nearly every day of his childhood. Billy had an extremely gruesome crucifix hanging on the wall of his little bedroom in Ilium. A military surgeon would have admired the the clinical fidelity of the artist's rendition of all Christ's woulds-the spear wound, the thorn wounds, the holes that were made by iron spikes."

Huh. Reminds me of Hagakure: "The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. This is the substance of the way of the samurai" - 'Hagakure' by some random Japanese politician.

"Sell your shirt and buy a sword, for the end commeth, and right soon". - 'The Bible' by God. As true today as it was 2000 years ago.

Tradition is a funny old thing. Sometimes we forget the reason we started doing something.

I still haven’t read Slaughterhouse 1-4, but they are hard to come by.