Bing Soy's Blog: UT - Caber Bomber

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Caber kills with demoman. In caber's post nerf state, it lacks the firepower it once had. To use it is to accept difficulty and hardship. Part of what keeps me playing TF2 is there is much to do with the way you play the game, even when one may think that everything to do with TF2 has been exhausted. Granted, it may not be the most fun thing to die over and over with these antics, but it helps to know you are trying — trying to do something more – something stupid – something that may be a complete waste of time – something that can blow someone's mind. Besides, it would be less fun for me play "normal" all the time.

Music choice

The initial music choice was "Daddy Cool " by Boney M, inspired by the folder's name I put my caber demos in – "caber cool". To add a more unique touch, I wanted to make a cover of it in a style of a videogame that I have played, like a did with in "thrust α" (Cat Thruster by deadmau5 in Mother 3 style) and "cliff eastwood" (Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz in Kirby Superstar style). The video game I chose for the cover was Crash Bandicoot 2. About midway of the music making process, it didn't fit. I pushed on further to brush off that thought but it was true. To work on it further would prove fruitless, so I brainstormed and had another idea – that bomber enemy from Kirby. There was a specific part of the game which I remembered: an array of bombers exploding from above. Level 7: Rainbow Resort, stage 5, at the start of the level. Naturally, I went with the music that plays there. Now, there – it suits the clips. Now feel the music and edit accordingly.

Daddy Cool x Snow Go Fusion scrapped

Clip order + more

Clips are in a mostly chronological order, some key clips displaced to even out pacing and intensity of clips.

I decided on motion tracking the 2 chat scenes to the gibbed heads as they weren't vital to the scene but not too insignificant to be left out and more as a little extra flourish, like something that would make you go "heh".

Time slow scene - the first-person view of the demo sucked. I had to do some investigating to know the exact nature of the frag. It turns out I made a quick decision to hit the stationary pyro with his back turned in order to splash that cabered soldier. The first-person perspective sucked since you couldn't even see the frag due to the massive ammobox in front of my POV. With the power of Lawena and HLAE, I make a cool sequence showing the viewer what was too hard to see in a blink of an eye. The experience I had when making that JoJo animation (featuring Dio's The World Time stop) helped. Warning: HLAE is a technically a hack/cheat, so remember to set your steam to offline and don't touch online servers when making your cool frag movies.

At one point I considered screen recording with OBS because of the jank and filesizes and time spent rendering the demos but the quality loss was too much to bear.

Outro caber crash scene - The scene with the guy saying "Caber" was already going to be the outro but for some reason I felt compelled to do a little more with the scene. Naturally, I thought of what else I could do to make the video more thematic. Of course – the crash ability gained from absorbing a bomber in Kirby:NiDL. I used that video as reference to replicate the ability in HitFilm (editing software). A bit of masking, fades and brightness/contrast effects with SFX from Kirby:NiDL and there you go. But I wanted a little more impact from this scene. Crash in Kirby essentially kills all lesser enemies on screen and they all go into their dying sprites/animation while Kirby is doing the crash, so I went to SFM and made a dying pose for the soldier to really sell the scene. The pose I made kind of reminded me of the intro of Ringside from Rhythm Heaven Fever so I made it the pose more like that. Everything is a remix. I'm not so sure I should explain/spoil every easter egg or little detail I put into these videos. Maybe knowing that I do this, you can explore for yourself and share your findings with others.

LLAP

Thumbnail

Some of my focus is now also onto the video thumbnails. Now that my channel has ascended, marked with the requiem , I try to boldly go where I haven't gone before. For a video thumbnail, the default option is usually to get a still from the video or use Lawena/HLAE to get a custom shot from within the demo. Sometimes the video calls for something different, so I used SFM to make Kirby into demoman in the location and position of the intro clip. An interesting note - I couldn't find a demoman cap model so I used a head model I found on the workshop then inserted the head into kirby so it looks like he's wearing a hat. How appropriate yet disturbing. A bit of editing in Paint.NET, combining 2 renders to make one eye hidden with eyepatch, some tweaks then some color grading in HitFilm.

Oh no

Caber tips/info:

Be ready to supplement caber damage with pills, especially for non-light classes
Caber suffers damage falloff, even at melee range.The most you can get out of a single hit seems to be 127 (out of 130) if you are right in the enemy's face.
More Ullapool Caber info at TF2 Wiki

Custom game stuff:

Half Life style HUD [WIP] by me. Worked on the HUD to get it to a overall working state, especially for demoman. More updates probably to come as my videos demand the HUD. New HUD for more unique look, tribute to the classics and more info for viewer without too much screen hogging from UI. Added team minimal status to show players/classes in server.
Triple Barrel Loch-n-Load model mod to make the model match the clip capacity.
Old Sticky Jumper and Rocket Jumper model mod because I like the old models better. On top of this I personally made team colors for them to further help viewer with team differentiation and I didn't want the other color variants on GameBanana. Not sure if I want to publish my version due to how many others there are.
4-Slot Grenade Launcher (post-Gun Mettle): same reason as LnL.
For other mods I use or things I find interesting on GameBanana, see my subscriptions page or my mods page on my website.

Pinned comments:

#1: 2022-05-??: Emirhan Özkan
#2: 2022-08-22: Uncle Dane [ty image by bing soy]

Additional video info

Project editing range: 2022/04/18 - 2022/04/22

Video publish date: 2022/04/22

Server: Uncletopia (UT)

Timestamp info (now improved)

Music used

Rainbow Resort (Stage)
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land

Saturday, April 23, 2022

UT - Caber Bomber