Hello my fellow Foundry Authors/Founders,

Hopefully by now you’ve all heard of the Foundry Authors Academy, if you haven’t why not read the full article on the STO website. And check out the Forum Post where we have some extra details regarding dates and FAQ’s.

The FAA, is a joint project between PrimetimeUGC, StarbaseUGC, Cerberus Films and Cryptic Studios, to provide comprehensive, fun and informative tutorials or “lectures” on the Foundry UGC Toolset, from the very beginning, all live.

We’re looking for experienced and knowledgeable authors to come and join us, to share their knowledge.

To take part, you’ll need to be free on Saturday the 6th of April, 12 Noon PDT/ 7PM GMT for 3 hours, as well as have access to a Skype Account and have an internet upload speed of 0.4mbps or better (you can test yours here http://www.speedtest.net/).

If you’re interested in being one of our Teachers, please sign up using this link 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via Twitter @cerberusfilms, or through the StarbaseUGC Chatroom.

Thank you, and I can’t wait to get to work with you all

Cerberusfilms

Hello my Fellow Founders.. Foundry Types.. Foundrians?

This is your chance to get your questions answered by the Neverwinter Developers, specifically to do with the Foundry.

Please post your questions in the comments here or on  http://tavernugc.com/foundryqa and late on Sunday the 27th, we’ll pick the best and send them directly to the team.

This is a really exciting opportunity for us all to find out more about the Toolset in Neverwinter.

We eagerly await your questions!

Cerb

(P.S. sorry for the late posting, I thought someone else was posting it here)

Hey Everyone,

Next Friday, Dec. 7th, PrimetimeUGC will be interviewing Executive Producer Dan Stahl.

We’re looking for your questions too!

Make sure to leave them in the comments below, we’ll select the best and present them to him, and probably roll those that didn’t make the first cut into more generalised larger questions… you know what I mean I’m sure.

So make sure you get all your questions in no later than 3PM PST on Dec. 7th.

This is a great opportunity to get all your foundry questions answered,

Hi Fellow Foundry types,

I’ve been going through the forums (as I am rather loathed to do these days, but trawl I did), and I came across a rather interesting idea in the now forsaken Tribble Patch Notes thread from 8th November.

If you’re been on Tribble, testing like the good Nanovs you are, then you may well have noticed that there are now these shiny new Reputation Systems for New Romulus and STF’s, which give Shiny New Items and Abilities through a Fleetbase type progression system (just a lot cheaper).

Now we’re always looking for the latest way to attract players to our Missions, why not have a Foundry Reputation System? We’ve heard that in Neverwinter, Authors will earn special rewards, so why not do the same in STO but also for the players.

For the dilligant foundry players, offer some cool MKXII gear or an awesome ship, or exclusive Cryptic content, or whatever, hell even something along the lines of a dancing Three Headed hell puppy hologram would be awesome.. or is that just me?

Then we’ve also got the a separate but perhaps similar route for the Authors, where the more plays and reviews they get, the higher up the tree they go, perhaps unlocking special content packs along the way as well.

Perhaps the authors receive a fixed share of the rewards for each play of their mission (especially if mission rewards will be time based from now on) in addition to Tips so that those of us who spend hundreds and hundreds of hours slaving away in the foundry get a nice healthy return of the things our players are earning from our productions.

What do you guys think?

If you have any comments, criticism or additions to these ideas, please put them in the comments bellow, and I’ll try and round them all up and post them on the Forums in prettiful colours.

Your sometimes loveable Hell Doggy…

Ladies, Gentlemen and Invited Transgendered species,

Since Season 6 will be introducing Fleet Bases, we thought it was time to finally give StarbaseUGC… an Actual Starbase!

So without furtherado, I present ‘SBUGC’ , the Fleet.

People have wondered in the past why we’ve never had one, but until fleetbases and their eventual foundry customisation, we thought it was finally time.

If you’d like to join (even if it’s just dropping an alt in the fleet), send an ingame mail or PM to @Castmodean, @Cerberusfilms or @CaptPFDennis (or anyone else you see in the fleet) and they’ll be happy to hook you up.

Please help us with upgrading the fleetbase with any resources you can spare, we understand that most of you are already part of other fleets but we hope you’ll be able to help take this already amazing community and make it even better (as Alt would put it, by giving us “Sweet, Sweet Lootz”)

Thanks

Cerberusfilms

Hi there Everyone,

I’m hopefully going to be streaming the creation of a new mission live over a 24-48 hour time period (not constantly, there will of course be breaks).

The mission will be my entry into the Podcast UGC Christmas Mission Contest (details here Podcast UGC Episode 40 )

I should be streaming from about 9PM GMT on Friday 23rd December ( All details can be found here for international times) at www.livestream.com/cerberusfilms.

Please come along and support the foundry and the community.

I may bring people on to talk to at some point if all goes well.

I hope to see you there.

Cerberus

(Forum post -> http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=245802 please show some support )

Hey Everyone… finally… A Reunion Update

Here’s the latest Trailer/Mini Episode

The release date for Episode 2 has been confirmed too. 25/12/11- Christmas Day.

The full article can be found here http://startrekreunion.com/episodes/series-1/lynyas-trailermini-episode-1/

Oliver

Hi Everyone,

I’m BACK mwahahahaha *cough cough* and so is Reunion (well it’s on it’s way).

Anywho, Today I’d like to announce the opening of www.startrekreunion.com, the home of all things ST:R related.

So please go and register, also please post in the forums and start the community going.

I’m currently in the middle of moving house but I’ll be around.

See you all soon

Oliver

Cerberusfilms

Well… here it is… finally…

Best viewed in 1080p

Star Trek: Reunion- “The Gathering Storm” is the first episode of a ten-part machnima series that features five Starfleet caotains as the try to wrestle with the recent death of one of their own at the hands of a Klingon General. As their tales of rememberance continue, they unwittingly uncover clues and begin to realise that maybe her death wasn’t meaningless.

In this episode- Join Cortak as he retells a tale of when he served under Captain Lynya Taran as they undertake what should be an easy mission for Starfleet Intelligence.

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All the leaks from Star Trek: Reunion so far.

Please Subscribe to Cerberusfilms over at YouTube, follow @cerberusfilms on twitter and keep an eye out on www.cerberusfilms.posterous.com for all the latest news on the project
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Hello All

I would like to announce the arrival of Foundry TV… Otherwise known as the Cerberusfilms Livestream Channel.

Whilst the stream is not entirely devoted to STO/Foundry, it will be for 90% of the time (the rest will be amusing gaming and other videos I do with some awesome friends).

If there is any content you wish to be on there, just post a comment on the Foundry TV page.

New and exciting things will be on there way soon, including Star Trek: Reunion, every sunday at 5pm PST live, starting from the 12th of June.

I hope you all enjoy this stream, I may one day ask for donations to help support it if we go for some of the more advanced features.

Have fun my friends (this is all for you)

Cerberus

Hello Fellow Foundry Types

I would like to invite you all to log onto www.livestream.com/cerberusfilms on Sunday the 29th May at 5pm PST (2am Monday GMT) to see the live unveiling of a project of (we hope) Epic Proportions.

For a little over a month, a team of Foundry Authors (Based mainly from StarbaseUGC) including names such as Napoleon_Blownapart, Cass.io.peia, Sabredruid and Fanfiction Writer TerilynnS,(and many more) have been working tirelessly to make this dream become a reality, the first ever Fanmade Star Trek Online Machinima Series.

I hope you’ll join us for the special occasion where we’ll be releasing the teaser Trailer live on-air.

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Warning- This article was written at 03:15 and my brain is dead so my apologies for the poor writing/If nothing makes sense I’ll edit it when I’m more awake

Hi there fellow foundry types

Cerberusfilms here again and I’m going to talk a little bit about Trailers again.

Some of you know that I’m a Film-Maker and I regularly work on short films, both my own and many others around Scotland. I would like to extend an invitation to foundry authors to contact me via the StarbaseUGC chatroom, in-game chat or in-game mail to pick my brains about their trailers.

I’ve also been considering starting to review trailers for some time and listening to the podcast tonight has firmed it up in my mind, I’m gonna give it a go. So if anyone would like me to review a particular trailer, just comment below, send me a PM in-game or hit me up in the chatroom.
I plan to begin with Admiralmurphy’s, Etherghost’s and NemesisChiken’s

And finally after May I will have a lot of free time and so I am considering taking requests to make trailers for people, again let me know.

Hope this was helpful, until next time

Cerberus

Hello Everyone

Cerberusfilms here again. Today I have some exciting news. Davejl 99 and I have been working on Asset Sharing and yesterday I completed work on the toolset for turning raw data files into humanly readable wiki-able files.

This is completed by using three seperate yet interlinked processes. First you export the asset from the Foundry. Then you use a modified version (‘Wishy approved’) of Pendra’s tool to parse the data into a CSV file. Then using a special template for OpenOffice you import the CSV file, ctr-c/v a few things and hit export to PDF. Then you simply have to upload the PDF to a page on the SBUGC wiki, and thanks to the hard work of Dave, your PDF file is easily viewable by all.

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(Warning, parts of this article don’t even makes sense to the author )

Hello fellow foundry types

Cerberusfilms here again and today I want to talk to you  all about ‘Believability’.

I bet that most of you are probably thinking what on earth am I talking about, ‘This is Star Trek, a piece of fiction set in the distant future with alien races killing one another, what’s believable about that?!’ Well… in all films and stories, for them to be worth their salt, there has to be a small modicum of believability. Unless it’s some sort of Avant Garde artsy piece which follow completely different rules (and yes they all do follow rules of some sort).
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Hello fellow Foundry types.

I’m Cerberusfilms (Sir-Bur-us- fill-um-z), affectionately known as Cerberus or C and today I’m going to be talking about Mission Trailers.

I am a film-maker (if you hadn’t guessed by my handle) and I love Star Trek, so to me, the Foundry is a dream come true, especially now that, with the last patch, we can finally demo_record in the Foundry reliably.

I’ve seen a lot of Trailers being produced by authors recently and I have to admit, some of them are simply excellent. Others, not so much.
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