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Aerilon

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Ahem, as many people who are or who have ever created a project, the thought of changing the intro movie is usually a common one, and one that I plan to do also.

Originally, I thought about doing it through capturing parts of the episodes, but then decided, that I'd like to 'create' one myself (CGI). I'm just curious as to which programs can actually do that...

Does anyone know, or has anyone had any experiance doing such?
 
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Paulhanselluk

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Hope this helps...

The few I have done, have been made from "ingame", using mission intros (that have been editted ie- change the camera paths etc and the ships) recorded with fraps, then edited using windows movie maker and coverted using Bink tools.

Hope this is of some help.
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K7AV

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yeah, really if you want to do ingame movies fraps is really the way to go, though you do have to pay for it.
 
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As the others have said, in game movies can be useful. Though I assume you would like an intro akin to the Future Tense or Babylon 5 Armada 2 mods?

If so, then there are a few requirements - you'll need software capable of rendering animation (3ds max, Maya, and Lightwave are three of them), an after effects suite (such as Adobe Premiere or the easier to obtain Movie Maker), audio editing software (audacity is the best I've found, and its free) and the Rad Game Tools. These are what you need in terms of software, I'd also recommend a fast graphics card (128 is good though 256 or above is ideal) to speed up rendering time as well as about a gig of RAM for the same reason.

Then it comes to the animating. This seems a lot easier than modelling though to create long timed animations that play fluidly and don't seem to be unnatural takes a lot of practice.

Your best bet would be to get a trial version of Maya if there is one, learn the ropes over thirty days and then get the Trial of Max to do the actual animation. After this max can be obtained for later usage.

Rambled on for a bit I think :lol:

Seriously though, good luck in this. A mod with a specific story or a crossover really needs a new intro, the old ones simply confuse the player in the long run. Just stick with the programs and take little steps, don't try to make the whole thing in a day. Better to spend more time perfecting the scenes than making the whole thing suffer due to a crowded schedule.

If any help with anims are needed, I'm here and there are people many factors of ten times more skilled than me at sci-fi meshes.
 
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Aerilon

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Paulhanselluk said:
The few I have done, have been made from "ingame", using mission intros (that have been editted ie- change the camera paths etc and the ships) recorded with fraps, then edited using windows movie maker and coverted using Bink tools.
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Interesting way of doing it. I've got the programs too..

Paulhanselluk said:
Hope this is of some help.
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Helpful yes, but I've no idea where to even start with the camera paths and what not. :lol:

Fancy like helping out a little closer to the time?

K7AV said:
yeah, really if you want to do ingame movies fraps is really the way to go, though you do have to pay for it.
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I didn't have to pay for the version that I've got... - And I didn't get it illegally either, before anyone accuses me of doing so :p

Amateur said:
As the others have said, in game movies can be useful. Though I assume you would like an intro akin to the Future Tense or Babylon 5 Armada 2 mods?
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The Future Tense & B5 Intros are totally different lol. The B5 one is from screen captures, the Future Tense one is game animated I think.

Amateur said:
Seriously though, good luck in this. A mod with a specific story or a crossover really needs a new intro, the old ones simply confuse the player in the long run. Just stick with the programs and take little steps, don't try to make the whole thing in a day. Better to spend more time perfecting the scenes than making the whole thing suffer due to a crowded schedule.
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Thank You for all the rambling, ahem, I meant input ;)

I'll try to avoid them expensive programs if I can :lol: but at least I now know how these things are acomplished. :)

Amateur said:
If any help with anims are needed, I'm here and there are people many factors of ten times more skilled than me at sci-fi meshes.
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If I get to that stage, I'll contact you. :)
 
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Tycoon said:
Interesting way of doing it. I've got the programs too..

Helpful yes, but I've no idea where to even start with the camera paths and what not. :lol:

Fancy like helping out a little closer to the time?
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Did you even have to ask.......
 
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Tycoon said:
I didn't have to pay for the version that I've got... - And I didn't get it illegally either, before anyone accuses me of doing so :p
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I got the freeware version too. Thats how I made all the YY videos.
 
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