Tutorial - Making a flyby (preview) movie

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Tutorial - Making a flyby (preview) movie

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Okay, first things first. Here's what you'll need in order to do it:

-Battlefront 1.3 beta patch (visit the following link to find out how to have 1.2 and 1.3 installed at the same time)

http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1485

-Fraps - http://www.fraps.com

-RAD Game Tools - http://www.radgametools.com/binkhcwb.htm

Okay, let's get started!

1-Start up Fraps, then minimize it
2-Start Battlefront 1.3 and load your map
3-Hit esc and choose 'free camera'
---- Camera controls
-------move - up, down, left, right
-------go higher/ lower - home,end
-------pause/unpause free camera - backspace
-------speed up/slow down camera - +,-
4-Use F9 to record, use it again to stop
----You can move the camera while recording, or just stay still
5-Record 3-4 short videos
6-If the game is unpaused in free cam (backspace), exit out
7-Rename the 3-4 videos modidfly1.avi, modidfly2.avi, etc
8-Start RAD Video Tools and select modidfly1.avi and hit Bink.
9-From there, open the documentation and click the link: Flythrough Videos


It's that simple!


My personal tips
-When you go to free cam, hit backspace to upause it. From there you can record live action
-Keep each recording to 3-5 seconds
-Record at least 1 Control Point, unless the best parts of your map aren't near CP's
-Try to record new content, vehicles, or battles
-Try getting really close to the ground, sitting still while recording, and letting the AI walk right over the camera.


Just post here if you have any questions.
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RE: Tutorrial - Making a flyby (preview) movie

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whast a flyby vid?
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Post by Teancum »

A flyby movie is the movie that plays on the level select scren in the lower-right hand corner.
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Post by Teancum »

This probably needs to be a sticky, since there will be multiple threads wondering about this.
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Post by EraOfDesann »

*Bump*

This should be a sticky! :)
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Post by Ace_Azzameen_5 »

Finally, some recognition. :P
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Hey, Thanks for the info, I've always wondered how you make those videos, I tried taking screen shots and making a short .gif or .wmv but those didn't work, I'll give this a shot! Thanks
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First post and a major rule broken? I could almost swear that's an instant ban. zapawaf, in future don't bump topics that are either off the first page or are more than 45 days old without good reason.
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