Counting down the hours until I play with this font. I am totally salivating at the mouth with anticipation.
*cleans saliva off my chin*
Damn, people are waiting for this
My apologies everyone; I've been kept from making the type of progress I wanted on this; primarily by endless snow storms. I am the Director for a Public Works Department in the Chicago burbs and we've just been getting hammered; day after day after day... We're responsible for snow removal, so that's pretty much all we've been doing for the last ten days. Something else that's been keeping me away (albeit more fun) are some of the activities happening with the band. Last Saturday, we played a cool event with Local H and comedian Brian Posehn, of "The Big Bang Theory" and standup fame. It was sold out, so there were a ton of people and it was a blast.
All of that said, I have made some progress on this font collection. All of the sound editing has been done for awhile, as featured on the video above. Right after posting that, I started work on all the associated LED effects. Currently, I'm done with all the effects in the core default font file.
Now, I'm hammering through the massive amount of extra effects. As was done with "Son of Darkness" & "Hardwired", I have many, many more sounds than can be loaded onto a single font file and as such; I plan to offer effects files for each of them. The LED effects are designed to match the album artwork for "Ride the Lightning", so there are lots of deep blues and purples with flashes of white, etc. Looking pretty cool so far. My plan is to finish everything up this weekend (God willing), so I can get the overview and tutorial video started, and... get the whole package posted here for download.
...Hardwired was awesome and this next one sounds even better.
Thank you very much KaiserSosay, you're too kind
I don't know if it's "better", but it's definitely more fun working with a classic Metallica album. In that respect, it may be a bit more fun to play round with.
We also need to give him time to cover his bases legally with the copy rights and stuff.
No worries there. My fonts are always free to this community, so there are no legal ramifications without profit. I'm afraid that if we had to wait for that, we'd all forget about it well before it could be released Lol.
I believe what you had to say about the subject in your message is likely accurate too.
Oh, and I should have a teaser video showing the font with lighting effects working on a saber very soon!