AVI/MPEG from a quake 3 demo?

DeVore

can it be done? If so how? (links to tools would be appreciated).

I've looked but its not obvious if you can do it at all...

I seem to recall Bio having an mpeg (like the film SeVeN).

DeV.

ShevY

http://www.clan-k.co.uk/phoenix/tutorials/q3avi/quake3-2-avi.htm

http://www.planetquake.com/booker/movie.shtml

these might be some help.

Zero

Dev.

I have done that. what you do is:

1. Load up whatever demo it is that u want the clip from.
2. Use a cfg with all loads of graphics etc turned on.
3. Use a few binds like these:
a) bind f1 "timescale 1"
b) bind f2 "timescale 0.2"
c) bind f3 "cl_avidemo 8"

4. Go the the point in the demo you want, hit f2, and then f3. That will write 8screenies per second, so after 5 seconds you have 40 screenies, and seeing as you are running it at 20%, you have 40 FPS. If your PC cant handle it, lower the avidemo to 4 and the timescale to .1 etc etc
5. In your screenshots folder you'll have a bunch of 1meg TGA files. String them together and wallop. What I used to use for it when I was gonna make one, was Adobe Premier. It is "teh bomb".

SheroN

I'm almost impressed.

DeVore

Thank Zero, I had kinda figured it out by trial and error.

I'll give it a go and see what I can do....

DeV.

dardoz

hmm, thats me wonder. Are there any really class Q3 movies out there. I know in UT for instance, Fooze made a movie, 15 mins long for their 5 year anniversary and it was amazing. Are there any notable Q3 movies around?

richindub2

http://www.planetfortress.com/hlmp/hlmp2-beta/medialist.asp?ID=4&BY=date

^^ is the q3 section of a largely tfc movie site that also has some q3 / q3f.

Illkillya

http://cyberfight.org/offline/movie/?PHPSESSID=a79a66253c8577aeb35bd75c0b97e71d

for all games. I've only seen a few of those q3 ones so i dont know which is best

Illkillya

An article has just been posted on Xsreality about making gaming movies,
http://www.xsreality.com/?a=longpost&id=206465&page=1

Looks interesting... links to special effects scripts and stuff too.