How to make a jk2 movie

[TK_Nutritious]

np & thx

[Jeff 42]

Hey Nutri, a while ago I bookmarked your guide on making videos at http://www.shinyiu.com/video.htm, but now it's not there anymore. Is there any way I could access this guide now?

[TK_Nutritious]

edit: hmm looks like the file is gone from my HD :/, if there's anyone here who has it and can email it to me it'd be much appreciated (Nutritious414@hotmail.com)

[Jeff 42]

Darn. Well, the main thing I want to know is, in your fast forward script, how do you figure out how long to "wait" in order to fast forward to a certain point in time?

[TK_Nutritious]

well, that comes mainly with trial and error. The wait command isn't always an exact amount of time either, but from a few tests you can figure it out for yourself.

 

First open up /cg_drawtimer 1 to give yourself an internal game clock to measure by. Then get a demo that's long enough to test on and set it as the demo to play in the script (we'll call the demo 'test'). set timescale to 100 and wait to 100 and then play the demo. Watch the timer on the top right of the demo when it stops fast forwarding to see how much time 100 waits represented. You can try it with say 200 waits to see if you get the same ratio.

 

Ok so here's the more visual way to see it:

1. /cg_drawtimer 1

2. name demo: test

3. turn on cheats (/devmap ffa_yavin then return back to main menu)

4. run script and watch timer at end

 

Script would look like this:

demo test;timescale 100;wait 100;timescale 1

 

to figure out how many waits per minute you can take the ending timer and convert it into a real minute number. Say at timescale 100, 100 waits got us to time 3:24. That's 3.4 minutes (took 3 minutes + (24/60) = 3.4). So do k = waits/minutes (where k is the constant for waits/minute). So in this case k = 100/3.4. So our constant is 29.41 waits/minute. Now you can take this and figure out how many waits you need for any time in your demos.

 

For example, you want to get to time 14:30 in the demo. Convert it to 14.5 minutes. Then do 29.41 = waits/14.5; w = 426 waits. At timescale 100, 426 waits will get us to the time 14:30 in the demo.

 

Thing is it can take a long time for 426 waits to happen so there's a really easy way to make it faster. Since timescale and amount of waits is proportional you can double one and half the other and get to the same instant in the demo.

 

To get to the point 14:30 faster. Double the timescale to 200 and half the amount of waits to 218. If you want it even faster you can do timescale 400 waits 109 etc.

 

Welp, that's about the end of my thread-turned algebra class. Class dismissed .

[Smood]

Any ideas about how to get external perspectives on playing. So if 2 people are dueling, have a third camera watching the duel, and moving, instead of first person?

[CanadianSurfer]

Either someone could spectate you guys, or in the video make itself there's a zoom feature that lets you zoom in or out.

[TK_Nutritious]

there are ways to get outside the eyes of a player, however, I don't know of any way to freely control the camera as if it was a spectator. The closest you could do is use several 3rd person camera commands that will let you move the camera in different positions around the player who recorded the demo.

 

First turn on cheats (/devmap ffa_yavin)

Then, while in the game, find the camera position you want:

/cg_thirdperson 1 (puts camera outside of player)

/cg_thirdpersonangle ### (puts camera a certain angle around the player, 0-360 degrees)

/cg_thirdpersonrange ### (adjusts distance camera is from player)

/cg_thirdpersonvertoffset ## (adjusts vertical angle of the camera to get an above or below angle on players)

 

these are the basic third person commands to use when in a duel. The drawback is that, unless you're an experienced scripter, you'd have to set the angles before running the demo and would be limited to that angle for the rest of the demo. Also the camera will always have the player who recorded the demo in the very center of the screen and will follow that players movements and direction. For additional thirdperson commands type /cg_thirdperson into the console and it will list the rest of them.

 

Your best bet is if you know you're gonna record a duel, have a spectator demo it from whatever angle you'd like.

 

Hope this helps.

[Jeff 42]

Okay, I've finished making a video which I think is pretty good. So now my question is, how do you get them hosted on FileFront?

[griff38]

It's pretty easy, once you are at these sites, find the "submit a file" link. All of the following have stored my videos and make them available for free downloads.

 

fileplanet

 

 

voodoofiles

 

Fileshack

[Jeff 42]

Thanks. I would prefer FileFront, though, as people don't have to log in to download files there.

[CanadianSurfer]

Originally posted by TK_Nutritious

there are ways to get outside the eyes of a player, however, I don't know of any way to freely control the camera as if it was a spectator. The closest you could do is use several 3rd person camera commands that will let you move the camera in different positions around the player who recorded the demo.

 

First turn on cheats (/devmap ffa_yavin)

Then, while in the game, find the camera position you want:

/cg_thirdperson 1 (puts camera outside of player)

/cg_thirdpersonangle ### (puts camera a certain angle around the player, 0-360 degrees)

/cg_thirdpersonrange ### (adjusts distance camera is from player)

/cg_thirdpersonvertoffset ## (adjusts vertical angle of the camera to get an above or below angle on players)

 

these are the basic third person commands to use when in a duel. The drawback is that, unless you're an experienced scripter, you'd have to set the angles before running the demo and would be limited to that angle for the rest of the demo. Also the camera will always have the player who recorded the demo in the very center of the screen and will follow that players movements and direction. For additional thirdperson commands type /cg_thirdperson into the console and it will list the rest of them.

 

Your best bet is if you know you're gonna record a duel, have a spectator demo it from whatever angle you'd like.

 

Hope this helps.

 

I find /cg_ThirdPersonCameraDamp # to be quite useful as well. Gives you different angles at the same time.

[Tosh_UK]

Please RE sticky

[Smood]

Thanks for your help Nutri... I appreciate it!

[Smood]

I'm getting a strange error when using the sync, and record commands, it occurs when I type the record command itself.

 

ERROR is as follows

 

==========================

 

CL_set Cgame time

 

!CL.Snap.valid

 

==========================

 

And then it doesnt record. However, if I restart the match and attempt to record, it works. Then once I stop and try to record again I get the error. Please help, thanks.

[TK_Nutritious]

Hmm, haven't encountered that problem yet, I'll post at some movie forums see if I can find out

[Smood]

THANK YOU!

 

You are one of the most helpful people I have met on these forums, or anywhere for that matter! I will pay you back with anything you may need if I can.

[griff38]

Originally posted by Smood

I'm getting a strange error when using the sync, and record commands, it occurs when I type the record command itself.

 

ERROR is as follows

 

==========================

 

CL_set Cgame time

 

!CL.Snap.valid

 

==========================

 

And then it doesnt record. However, if I restart the match and attempt to record, it works. Then once I stop and try to record again I get the error. Please help, thanks.

 

 

I used to get that error, but I never found out what was causing it. Are you using a recorder script? Once I started using this one I never got the error again.

[TK_Nutritious]

This is a response I got from another forum:

I don't know what those errors mean, but in Q3A you need to do

g_synchronousclients 1; record; g_synchronousclients 0

You can leave out setting it to 0 but it's better for movement.

I know your errors don't refer to these settings specifically, but they may be the equivalent in JK2, so you could try them. Alternatively find the equivalent commands for JK2, if they are different.

You say that after it restarts it works, though, so I don't know, it could be a graphics driver problem, cause restarting can be a video restart (vid_restart).

 

The !CL,Snap.valid, I have 2 guesses for. It could be a screenshots problem, where "snap" refers to a screenshot. Maybe he has screenshotjpeg switched on - so it saves screenshots as jpegs instead of tgas - and that is the problem. My other guess is it could be something to do with his /snaps setting, which is to do with network conenctions. Try the default snaps setting (type /snaps and press Enter and it will tell you the default aswell as the current value, same as with any command).

 

judging from griff's and this reply, you might wanna take a look at the recording script you're using (assuming you are using one), to make sure it's imputting the correct commands.

[Smood]

actually I wasnt using a script but ill try using that one... thanks

[griff38]

In the last 60 days my 3 Jedi Outcast movies have been downloaded 2664 times!

 

 

:p

 

 

 

More to come?

[deathofall]

hey hey guys check out the movie i made...i put some red guards in.....soooooo cool ...plz tell me how it is

peace

http://www.don't-do-this-again.com

 

EDIT Taos - Please don't post a link such as this one again. Thanks.

[Blademaster_109]

Originally posted by Break_dF

Thanks Nut. I'm a fan of your movie. One quick question though...the cl_avidemo 20 is typed into the beginning console? or in game...how is this viewed w/out actually being in-game?

 

sounds good but where can i get ur movie.

[Tosh_UK]

Originally posted by Blademaster_109

sounds good but where can i get ur movie.

look at his sig, it has links to his movies

[Master Dark Bla]

Thx TK_Nutritious, I always wanted to know how to do this. You have saved my life:D