This week is space. It doesn't have to be anything crazy since this is only week 2. It can be anything from battlecruisers shooting each otehr to a massive collision of zerg and terran. Whatever your little minds want to do in space. Feel free to use last weeks WTE terrains (assuming any were posted) to help you incorparate your ideas.The mineralz idea has been scrapped...for now
I had a lot of stuff to do before, but I'll be doing something for this one. Might even record myself doing the work so it could serve as a tutorial of some sort?
Depends on how I feel about killing my HD space, though :P
Well technically it can still be about mineralz though because of a few things I changed it around but if you still want to enter in for mineralz thats fine too. But the actual thing has been pushed back because of a few things.
Hey guys, I love the idea of the weekly cinematic exercises! Here’s a quick cutscene I put together in my spare time to demonstrate a few features.
Shot 1
I have two banshees on a path, nothing fancy there. I copied and pasted the path to make sure they’re in sync, then selected all the markers and offset them using the Translation Manipulator. I also used Edit Camera and Auto Key to animate the shot a bit. Finally, I attached a smoke effect to the two banshees so that as they flew they created a smoke trail (yes, there's smoke in space!).
Shot 2
I simply created a camera looking out the back of the banshee. The banshee itself is still (other than the stand animation, which has a nice bounce. I animated the roll on the camera to exaggerate the effect, then I animated the skybox further away to make it look like we were moving. It was more convenient to set that up than to animate both the camera and banshee. Movie magic!
Shot 3
This was easy – I added a banshee portrait model, looked through the camera of it, made a copy, re-framed it a little, and extended the far clip so we could see the sky box behind her. I also put a second animation layer of HappyEyes with a long blend right at the end to give her some emotion.
Shot 4
This one’s a little more complicated. I started with five duplicated two-point paths to get the banshees all flying away. I then added a few additional markers to the left one and had it pull up so the banshee would fly out. I duplicated that and manually mirrored the points so that both outer banshees fly away at roughly the same time. I then animated Rotation Y (roll) on the center banshee to give it a barrel roll. Using the curve editor, I pulled on the custom tangents to cause it to go the wrong direction at first, then overshoot, then correct itself. There’s only two keys there, but by playing with the curve, I gave it a more realistic spin.
Finally, across all shots I used “Active For Shot” so that the models only appear in the shots they’re supposed to, and I kept organized by separating each shot into a different folder. That’s it! The whole thing took me about fifteen minutes to put together.
I attached the final cutscene so you can see for yourself.
Well doing more complex stuff is not so fast and easy after all. If I particiate in this I would prefer the editor to be improved or I dont really see point of making better cinematics if you cannot organize stuff properly, browse trough stuff easilly, and move around units without teadious workarounds. And I know skybox was messed up...whatever...couldnt get it to look right
WCE #2
This week is space. It doesn't have to be anything crazy since this is only week 2. It can be anything from battlecruisers shooting each otehr to a massive collision of zerg and terran. Whatever your little minds want to do in space. Feel free to use last weeks WTE terrains (assuming any were posted) to help you incorparate your ideas.The mineralz idea has been scrapped...for now
NO!
pretty boring wce, so I wont be part of this one.
@zenx1: Go
well if you don't like it maybe you should post ideas in the idea thread.
Wait, wasn't this going to be about Mineralz? :P
I had a lot of stuff to do before, but I'll be doing something for this one. Might even record myself doing the work so it could serve as a tutorial of some sort? Depends on how I feel about killing my HD space, though :P
@xcorbo: Go
Well technically it can still be about mineralz though because of a few things I changed it around but if you still want to enter in for mineralz thats fine too. But the actual thing has been pushed back because of a few things.
You really need to stop changing the name for it :P
This theme is much better. I guess I might try something (might).
Hey guys, I love the idea of the weekly cinematic exercises! Here’s a quick cutscene I put together in my spare time to demonstrate a few features.
Shot 1
I have two banshees on a path, nothing fancy there. I copied and pasted the path to make sure they’re in sync, then selected all the markers and offset them using the Translation Manipulator. I also used Edit Camera and Auto Key to animate the shot a bit. Finally, I attached a smoke effect to the two banshees so that as they flew they created a smoke trail (yes, there's smoke in space!).
Shot 2
I simply created a camera looking out the back of the banshee. The banshee itself is still (other than the stand animation, which has a nice bounce. I animated the roll on the camera to exaggerate the effect, then I animated the skybox further away to make it look like we were moving. It was more convenient to set that up than to animate both the camera and banshee. Movie magic!
Shot 3
This was easy – I added a banshee portrait model, looked through the camera of it, made a copy, re-framed it a little, and extended the far clip so we could see the sky box behind her. I also put a second animation layer of HappyEyes with a long blend right at the end to give her some emotion.
Shot 4
This one’s a little more complicated. I started with five duplicated two-point paths to get the banshees all flying away. I then added a few additional markers to the left one and had it pull up so the banshee would fly out. I duplicated that and manually mirrored the points so that both outer banshees fly away at roughly the same time. I then animated Rotation Y (roll) on the center banshee to give it a barrel roll. Using the curve editor, I pulled on the custom tangents to cause it to go the wrong direction at first, then overshoot, then correct itself. There’s only two keys there, but by playing with the curve, I gave it a more realistic spin.
Finally, across all shots I used “Active For Shot” so that the models only appear in the shots they’re supposed to, and I kept organized by separating each shot into a different folder. That’s it! The whole thing took me about fifteen minutes to put together.
I attached the final cutscene so you can see for yourself.
@Artestru: Go
Wow thats an impressive 15 seconds... Too bad banshees can't fly in space. Though you should put the map up cause the file there is just the XML data.
@JacktheArcher: Go Right click -> Save As. I wish Curse would fix this, but they don't seem to care about this forum.
Ive had this problem before, but it seems that Google Chrome downloads the map as a map and not as XML Data.
Well doing more complex stuff is not so fast and easy after all. If I particiate in this I would prefer the editor to be improved or I dont really see point of making better cinematics if you cannot organize stuff properly, browse trough stuff easilly, and move around units without teadious workarounds. And I know skybox was messed up...whatever...couldnt get it to look right
Hope you enjoy it.
Terrain by Mozared
@zenx1: Go
What a brave, brave marine.
Was bored. Yea, it's only 5 seconds, but this is my first cutscene ever :) Also, couldn't get any music to work and I wanted to go play LoL
Anyone know how to get y4m files converted to something that is useable? I had to add the sound effects externally.
@TheAlmaity: Go
LOOOUD NOISES! I did like it though :)
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Curse PremiumXVID4PSP is the only one of my programs that can convert it back to .avi.
mother of god... I had my sound up a bit 2 high and it scared the crap out of me lol...
Other than that, nice little scene you got there
Well, this one took longer to make then expected.