Saturday, 19 November 2011
Short video showing what creating machinima is all about!
I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to film this... Fraps wouldn't exactly do the magic since it always recorded WoW Model Viewer in full screen, thus making the other applications... not show.
Quitting it wasn't an option FYI.
Finally after many youtube videos (which didnt really help) I decided to just take my macbook and record my pc's screen.... which worked... except the video is backwards. Meaning everything on the screen is the other way around. *sigh*
Ah well it was the best one I've done from the 5 different tries, and I think it explains everything very simply. (Mr. Rawson if you advise me to film it again properly, I will figure out a way)
The video is currently extracting and ill upload it here as soon as it's done.
I also have all the animations finished (as mentioned before) They are all added to the "project library" awaiting editing.
To be honest though, I think I'll record the sound first (Just 2 minutes of me speaking basically) and then over that add the animations... This because I will be able to focus more on what the characters are meant to do, Ill be able to make them move during what I say, and instead of having to fit in the whole story component (talking) to the video, I think it's better to have the whole story told, and on that add video footage... Simply easier!
I guess this means my task for now is write a monologue... Well off I go to do just that!
Small checklist:
Quitting it wasn't an option FYI.
Finally after many youtube videos (which didnt really help) I decided to just take my macbook and record my pc's screen.... which worked... except the video is backwards. Meaning everything on the screen is the other way around. *sigh*
Ah well it was the best one I've done from the 5 different tries, and I think it explains everything very simply. (Mr. Rawson if you advise me to film it again properly, I will figure out a way)
The video is currently extracting and ill upload it here as soon as it's done.
I also have all the animations finished (as mentioned before) They are all added to the "project library" awaiting editing.
To be honest though, I think I'll record the sound first (Just 2 minutes of me speaking basically) and then over that add the animations... This because I will be able to focus more on what the characters are meant to do, Ill be able to make them move during what I say, and instead of having to fit in the whole story component (talking) to the video, I think it's better to have the whole story told, and on that add video footage... Simply easier!
I guess this means my task for now is write a monologue... Well off I go to do just that!
Small checklist:
- Animations [x]
- Sounds [x]
- Background []
- Voice-over (story) []
- All programs working [x]
- Research [x] <-- most likely done, I keep adding new links to my bibliography but yeah.
I think that's pretty much it except for
- PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER []
Well, off to write the monologue!
(I'll upload the video upon completion!)
Sunday, 13 November 2011
sounds -> success!
I got the sounds! They work! You can listen to them and they work!
Downloaded two different programs till it worked, but at least its all good now. I looked through the sounds and they all seem to be there! So that's a success for sure!
WoW map viewer still isn't working however and that makes me very angry.
Jacek smash!
Downloaded two different programs till it worked, but at least its all good now. I looked through the sounds and they all seem to be there! So that's a success for sure!
WoW map viewer still isn't working however and that makes me very angry.
Jacek smash!
hair pulling.
Im about to do what it says in the title.
For no reason now, WoW map viewer won't start.
sweet jesus have mercy,
Technology, Y U NO WORK?
grrrrrr.
Right. Erm. sounds. that's it.
Ignore the backgrounds atm.
For no reason now, WoW map viewer won't start.
sweet jesus have mercy,
grrrrrr.
Right. Erm. sounds. that's it.
Ignore the backgrounds atm.
more on the map viewer story
Since the last post been looking for ways to get map viewer to work.
I also have a list of all the *small* maps that work:
I also have a list of all the *small* maps that work:
- Stormwind Jail - a jail
- Wailing Cavers - large caves
- Uldaman - an old "egyptian" like ruined city
- Gnomeregan - a very techy, lots of cogs and mechanisms, etc place
- Sunken Temple - fairly obvious, a temple underwater
- Blackrockspire/blackrockdepths - a huge underground scary dungeon place... yeah.
- Onyxia - another large underground cave
- Mauradon - underwater and underground caves and tunnels
- Deeprun tram - similar to gnomeregan-> a very techy tram station
- Orgrimmar instance - a fiery cave connected to the lower, underground part of orgrimmar (the horde's main city) has a few small huts and houses MIGHT could MAYBE be useful
- Diremaul - a large jungle arena with a few tunnels -> could be useful
- Alliance PVP barracks - a part of a human town -> could be very useful, but has a lot of "black holes" i.e. the map is incomplete.
- Horde PVP barracks - just like the one above except in more of huts, desert style. If I use orgrimmar instance this could be useful. More likely to stick to alliance pvp barracks though.
Here is what I found on the official map viewer forum as a response on how to get it to work:
Map viewer isn't usable with 4.x content, and it wasn't great with the 3.x content... It's really buggy, and hard to use. You'd be better off going in-game to get your backgrounds.
And this was posted on friday. 2 days ago.
^**#&!%)@%..1!!
Rage.
Right so unless I can make my machinima using these few background (which aren't exactly great for my script but they could work...) I will have to use the WoW machinima tool. Which means that when you open up WoW, the machinima tool allows you to control all the background, characters, fog, flying, etc. inside the game. The only weak point is you have to physically be there with your character, then you can fly around the area. I however only have one character I really play and if he tries to go to the place that I need for filming, I would get *pwned* by the other side.
I could always make a second character and walk him there (won't take more then 15 minutes) and from there film, except that I would have to do this on my mac as my windows internet still doesn't work and you can't play WoW offline. The issue with that is I have no clue how to record on mac without spending money.....
WAIT! no!
Ahh the joy! WoW on mac has built in recording for machinima!
This could be a way to do it....
*joy joy joy happy tears*
And the WoW machinima tool DOES work, 100% and is constantly updated with new features!
...but does it work on mac?
Let's check...
No. Seems not.
Oh my god.
*rage*
I swear I'll get this to work.
/log off
*sigh*
After a lot of googling, forum searching and downloads I managed to get a version of WoW Map Viewer that actually opens up.
Now the first map I clicked on opened immediately and I was really happy that I managed to get it to work.
I exited that map and tried a different zone, unfortunately the only thing that showed up was the skybox and a vague outline of the mountains.
My excitement died out and I started looking for ways to fix this issue.
On the official issue forum for the program I found that a lot of users are having this problem since October. And that it hasn't been fixed *stabs self* There are a few maps that work and that I could use, so if I can't get it to work, and it doesn't suddenly, magically get updated, I can still do the film (thank the lord!) However this is a huge pain you know where.
Argh.
I hope Im more lucky with the sound program....
Now the first map I clicked on opened immediately and I was really happy that I managed to get it to work.
I exited that map and tried a different zone, unfortunately the only thing that showed up was the skybox and a vague outline of the mountains.
My excitement died out and I started looking for ways to fix this issue.
On the official issue forum for the program I found that a lot of users are having this problem since October. And that it hasn't been fixed *stabs self* There are a few maps that work and that I could use, so if I can't get it to work, and it doesn't suddenly, magically get updated, I can still do the film (thank the lord!) However this is a huge pain you know where.
Argh.
I hope Im more lucky with the sound program....
Animating...
I am currently in the process of animating the characters.
And for once I have good news as it's taking way less time then I thought it would take.
Besides if I notice that I need an animation while putting the footage together, nothing is simpler than opening up WMV and animating it within seconds.
Happy Jacek is happy!
Now let's think...
I have all animations for the slaughtered storytellers
I have all the kid's animations
I have the animations for the Storyteller's capture
I have the storyteller walking, crying, begging, casting spells...
Ah! I need the other storytellers casting
I need books
I need the spells they cast
I need the government created and animated
And I think those could possibly be all the animations I need! :D
I'll write a script after breakfast *final final version* as it has been going through my mind for a while. It will be ~1.5 minutes of me talking (I'll record it to check) and over my talking I'll add the animations, sounds and background. Once I finish the animations today I'll get map viewer to work and then I'll get all the WoW sounds!
Back to work it is!
And for once I have good news as it's taking way less time then I thought it would take.
Besides if I notice that I need an animation while putting the footage together, nothing is simpler than opening up WMV and animating it within seconds.
Happy Jacek is happy!
Now let's think...
I have all animations for the slaughtered storytellers
I have all the kid's animations
I have the animations for the Storyteller's capture
I have the storyteller walking, crying, begging, casting spells...
Ah! I need the other storytellers casting
I need books
I need the spells they cast
I need the government created and animated
And I think those could possibly be all the animations I need! :D
I'll write a script after breakfast *final final version* as it has been going through my mind for a while. It will be ~1.5 minutes of me talking (I'll record it to check) and over my talking I'll add the animations, sounds and background. Once I finish the animations today I'll get map viewer to work and then I'll get all the WoW sounds!
Back to work it is!
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