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Camera, characters, animation ?

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:46 pm
by Jack Ruby
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 :wink:

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:44 pm
by Random
Maybe this is what you are lookin for:

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

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:33 pm
by Jack Ruby
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 :shock: 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.

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:53 am
by small_sumo
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.

:)

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:59 am
by Jack Ruby
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:05 am
by Zip
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 :D

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

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:25 am
by Jack Ruby
If possible I will try to give them Hammer style big baggy trousers :)

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:40 am
by small_sumo
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.

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:53 am
by Jack Ruby
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

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:09 am
by Zip
LMAO Jack :lol: :D :) 8-)

How did you do that?

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:12 am
by Jack Ruby
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.

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:57 pm
by small_sumo
Crumbs it wont work for me. But I did like your little movie. I might put it on me site lol.

Bye