Author Topic: Question, Static Space camera view?? (Read 5358 times)

GhostRida · **on:** January 09, 2009, 04:07:49 am

I'm not that familiar wit Freepace 2 but can somebody tell me if there's a kinda "Static camera" that u can place somewhere in space wherever u want, or at least a "Drop camera", that would be a nice view, I remeber XWA "Video Room" Where u could watch the mission from every
Angle again wit a Free Camera, would be an nice feature for all the movie makers, expecialy with those Nice looking Star Wars Models

Reprobator · **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2009, 08:21:48 am

i d love a replay and a possiblity to extract a video from it frame bv frame, that would mean that the computer's power do not take into account for frame rate when sorting a video...

chief1983 · **Reply #2 on:** January 09, 2009, 08:59:26 am

There is no replay that I know of, but there are a lot of filming options you can use to make fanimations.

TopAce · **Reply #3 on:** January 09, 2009, 09:39:21 am

You can learn to make cutscenes in FRED. It's possible to use a static camera there and control your ship. For more serious or ambitious animations, you're probably better of with a real animator program, however. FRED is nice for some random eye-candy, but if there's a strict screenplay you want to stick it, there are severe limitations in the FRED way.

GhostRida · **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2009, 06:06:05 pm

Thanx so far, but where can I get this "FRED" and which keys do i have to press to use this camera inside of the Game...

chief1983 · **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2009, 06:45:35 pm

It's not a camera you just freely control in game, it's something you build into a mission. FRED is the mission editor, it comes with Freespace. I don't think there's anything quite as easy to use as you might be hoping though...

FUBAR-BDHR · **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2009, 07:05:30 pm

Just had an interesting thought on this that might interest the coders. If you think about it all the data you would need to replay a mission is already being packed up and transfered in multiplayer. If you would store that data then wouldn't it be possible to play the whole mission back from any objects point of view? I'm not saying it wouldn't be a lot of work just tossing the idea out there. Also the multiplayer packets would have to be generated and stored for single as well.

Flipside · **Reply #7 on:** January 15, 2009, 02:50:47 pm

I believe this topic was raised once before, and part of the problem is that, whilst the Multiplayer packets deal with some of the data involved, testing to see if the Hull is zero etc is done at the Client end. There were concerns, from what I remember, that the replay would not always run through in exactly the same manner as the game progressed in real time because there are random factors involved with how much hull is taken per hit.

I'd have to track down the thread, but I think it went something like that.

chief1983 · **Reply #8 on:** January 15, 2009, 04:11:07 pm

Even IL-2 has those kinds of issues. I've saved tracks that on occasion seem to play back a bit differently each time, even in single player only mode. May just be corruption though.

aRaven · **Reply #9 on:** January 15, 2009, 07:13:46 pm

Quote from: chief1983 on January 15, 2009, 04:11:07 pm

Even IL-2 has those kinds of issues. I've saved tracks that on occasion seem to play back a bit differently each time, even in single player only mode. May just be corruption though.

I had the same experience with IL2...

I also used to modify the craft attributes in XWA, which also resulted in altered playback behavior.

chief1983 · **Reply #10 on:** January 15, 2009, 09:32:37 pm

I guess the point is that if even professional games haven't been able to get it perfect, getting it close is about all anyone could hope for, if someone were to attempt it.

brandx0 · **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2009, 09:33:33 pm

Not that I'm saying anything about the replay or camera view, but I know I'm shooting for this mod to be better than professional quality =P

Chief, you're such a downer

chief1983 · **Reply #12 on:** January 15, 2009, 09:34:41 pm

Nonsense, if all you're hoping for is par, and you do even better, then it exceeds your expectations

brandx0 · **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2009, 09:37:01 pm

Who's hoping for par? I can't exceed my expectations, my rabid coffee and cigarette addictions won't allow anything less than perfection. =P

Flipside · **Reply #14 on:** January 16, 2009, 08:37:44 am

Woohoo! I'm not the only Nicotine/Caffeine powered modder on the Forum!

brandx0 · **Reply #15 on:** January 16, 2009, 02:26:08 pm

That's news to you? Jeez where have you been since I showed up? Everyone knows that it's the caffeine and nicotine that give me my power

Flipside · **Reply #16 on:** January 16, 2009, 02:59:18 pm

Nope, always thought I was pretty much the only smoker on Hard Light to be honest, though admittedly, a lot of programmers are Caffeine to Code conversion systems

brandx0 · **Reply #17 on:** January 16, 2009, 03:06:06 pm

Nope, definitely a heavy smoker, coffee drinker as well here. It's the source of my modeling prowess

TopAce · **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2009, 05:26:35 pm

I don't smoke and I can't model. I'm happy that way.

Flipside · **Reply #19 on:** January 16, 2009, 05:37:39 pm

Well, the reason I don't usually mention the fact I smoke is simply because I just know I'd get a barrage of people telling me (a) that it is anti-social and (b) that it is bad for me, and then I'm forced to point out that (a) I'm anti-social and (b) I know.

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