Camera, characters, animation ?

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:46 pm

Ok, I tried the old tute on camera's. I did everything and didnt get my camera working.

I really want to make some animated scenes. I have a ton of idea's but sadly no clue how to even get started.

Are there any tutorials out there for this kinda thing ? I know a few of you guys have got this stuff working, any help would be greatly apreciated, this is something I REALLY want to learn.

Thanks

Random · Post by **Random** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:44 pm

Maybe this is what you are lookin for:

chttp://www.planetmedalofhonor.com/rjuka ... aking.html

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:33 pm

Cheers Random, though thats not the exact thing I was after.
What I was really trying to make were cinematic sequences in game, like the endings for the Spearhead TOW maps. I found a thread on TMT by tltrude with his camera map which opened my eyes quite a lot.

I also have pasted the berlin TOW ending into my map ,I have now got that working. I am useless at script, I can see what some parts are doing, others baffle me

So now its working I am gonna try to find my way around to see how it works. Then I can adapt it to what I want, slowly im getting there

Thanks for your help and if I get the hang of it I will let you see the results.

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:53 am

Just play with one at a time and a trigger or time something in the script, thats how I started, you have to write a log each time so you can view yourerrors. Dl my busy tut at my site also there is a map file in my spr map, it has a very simple camera thingy in it.

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:59 am

Thanks Sumo, your spr axis ending really inspired me, I liked it a lot, the maps veeery cool too.

I will get my head round it, I want to make the guys dance to MC Hammer, You cant touch this. I know theres a dance animation, on the skin selection on multiplayer if you click the tiny window in the door behind the guys they start to dance, I know this works in spearhead not sure about AA.

Would be really annoying if your on the losing team and have to suffer the guys dancing and rapping

Hope i can pull it of.

Zip · Post by **Zip** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:05 am

Lmao Jack, i'd love to see that when you finish it. Can't touch this...do do be do.....can't touch this....great

You could go one step further and make them dance on their graves for added annoyance

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:25 am

If possible I will try to give them Hammer style big baggy trousers

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:40 am

The little window on the door seams to only reset theyre movments. Is there something I should learn?
I would like to see this dancing.

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:53 am

Well I didnt try it in AA so not sure if it works but it does in spearhead, I made a rough movie so you can see where I clicked and what the guy does, here you go....

hammertime

Zip · Post by **Zip** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:09 am

LMAO Jack

How did you do that?

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:12 am

Well you saw where I clicked to make them dance.

But to capture the video theres a prog called fraps ( its a freebie ) http://www.fraps.com/ Then I used adobe after effects to add the music then I ran it through xp movie maker to compress it into a WMV, I dont liek this format but it runs on pretty much most machines so thats why I chose that, really I should have made it a quicktime movie, I love quicktime.

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:57 pm

Crumbs it wont work for me. But I did like your little movie. I might put it on me site lol.

Bye