Phantom's Revenge Recreation! (Back on track!)

Hey guys! Musical season is officially over now (we closed the show last night, had a blast!), so now I can get back into Nolimits designing!

I have been toying around with this idea for quite some time now, and I think I've finally gathered the motivation to begin work on it. With my Eagle Project for boy scouts going on as well in the background, updates might be sporadic, but I will be working hard to finish this! And I guess this can be counted as a Thunderbolt recreation as well, since the two rides connect, but I'll mainly be focusing on the Phantom.

Trying to model the terrain from a sketchup model is tricky! NL2 needs some kind of feature that could match the terrain to a model like this, or something. Would make it so much easier and better!

EDIT - I will be throwing my Chimera renovation and other project on hiatus while completing this project, kind of lost motivation for both of those in favor of this one. I'll definitely revisit those projects in the future!

[Paradox]

I work on stage crew for my musicals as well! I do the microphones.

What did you guys put on this year? We did Fiddler on the Roof.

We just pulled off West Side Story - and coming right out of Children of Eden last year it was pretty crazy. I run the lights in our crew

[Paradox]

We are like twins

Performances are never perfect. Something will always go wrong when you least expect it.

One time after a mic switch, someone accidentally hit the off switch and the character came onstage and no one heard her. We were going ape sh*t trying to figure out what happened.

It was great.

I was stage manager/set designer/audio-engineer for quite a few plays. One of the plays we did was so outstanding that the company that owns the rights to the show, actually let us keep the rights for a few years so no one else could do it for a while. (Seussical: The Musical.) Also, my favorite play to have worked on was Annie, I had so much fun. We used an actual dog for the role and I remember just walking around backstage half the time walking around with the dog telling people what to do. Ah, I miss it.

That's nothing compared to our problem!

During the dream sequence of West Side Story (which wasn't in the movie and still confuses me as to why it's in the musical), we use about 8 intelligent lights to spot the actors as they moved around the stage. During intermission though, they all decided to turn off for some ungodly reason, and we didn't realize this until we cut to a blackout and they were supposed to come on. So now we've got actors singing on stage with no idea where to go and the audience not knowing what happened either. Thankfully we had one of the spotlights on, so the one operator jumped on and covered for the intelligent lights, as our board programmer jumped onto the light board to get the intelligents running, and I got the other spotlight working to cover for the rest of the lights - while running the rest of the cues in the scene on the same light board the other guy was fixing the issue on. The entire scene was basically improvised in the chaos with spot lights instead of the nice intelligent lighting - but we actually got praise for how well the scene looked, even though it was completely made up as we went! I'd call it a success on our end, but I was on edge for the rest of the night

This is about 3/4 of the list of cues for the sequence. All take place within about a minute and a half!

[Paradox]

We get our scripts from the same company

If NL2 could import terrain from something like google maps( the same way google has meshed maps and sketchup), it would not only make for more accurate recreations but it could also allow for a lot of neat real-world meets fantasy ideas.

Paradox wrote:

We get our scripts from the same company

I'm starting to think we actually are twins

CKidd wrote:

If NL2 could import terrain from something like google maps( the same way google has meshed maps and sketchup), it would not only make for more accurate recreations but it could also allow for a lot of neat real-world meets fantasy ideas.

We need to get this idea to the developers! I would love to see this implemented. It took me all day to get about 3/4 of the terrain done and it's still pretty rough compared to the sketchup model.

[TTD03]

I love how this is a phantom topic but all other 9 posts are about stage crew

TTD03 wrote:

I love how this is a phantom topic but all other 9 posts are about stage crew

Only 6 technically

CKidd wrote:

If NL2 could import terrain from something like google maps( the same way google has meshed maps and sketchup), it would not only make for more accurate recreations but it could also allow for a lot of neat real-world meets fantasy ideas.

RCT3rox wrote:

Only 6 technically

Can I go random here? "Only at 6 Flaaaags" that phrase's all of a sudden come into my mind, because of the word stage crew. They need more musical and puppet shows!

[TTD03]

^ Oh god no
We have enough offtopic discussion for this!

This topic practically turned into an off-topic discussion

^ Time to get back on Phantom's story. Let's do it, cause we've already had some fun musical days here. Good luck for your main project!

EDIT - Bumped because I really could someone's help

REQUEST - Anyone who can export a .3ds model from Sketchup, I need some quick help with a terrain model! PM or reply here if you want to help, it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes and I have the .skp file ready. I'll throw in 100 pts for help because it's for a school project!

Try exporting .dae, works well too and can be done in the free version.

I have tried .dae, but when I export the terrain file (it's not a model, it's a 3D Google Earth terrain), it doesn't show up in the editor. I was told .3ds works, but since I have the free version I cannot export it as a .3ds model.

I can do it. PM me and I'll have it done in a few minutes depending on how large the file is

I wish I had seen the discussion about theatre earlier! We just wrapped up a show about a week ago. I was the stage manager/set designer of a production of Figments by Billy St. John. This was the most hilarious show I've ever worked on. We counted 242 instances of audience laughter in one show.

jdmi012 wrote:

I wish I had seen the discussion about theatre earlier! We just wrapped up a show about a week ago. I was the stage manager/set designer of a production of Figments by Billy St. John. This was the most hilarious show I've ever worked on. We counted 242 instances of audience laughter in one show.

I don't think I've heard of that show before, but I remember counting around 150 or so laughs when we put on 42nd Street

Uh oh... going off the main "Phantom" topic again, but for a good laugh, that's okay! Never make this thread sound like "the Phantom of the Opera", though!

With some help from Coaster Hero & TallonD83, I can officially say this project is once again on track!

[TallonD83]

Sweet, glad to see things back on "track." Ba dum tiss