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[FogGobbler]

Hi!

I´ve just played the "Overclocked" adventure and I´m quite impressed with their camera movements.

Is there a way to do this in WME? I could think the easiest way would be to create a theora-video with the camera movement, but what about the 3D actors? It would be great to somehow save the camera animation in the graphics-program (I think only FBX can do this, or am I wrong?) and then load this into WME.

Or perhaps a keyframed camera animation, where you enter the coordinates "per hand".

I think this feature would be great for zooming in on things, i.e. faces.

Bye,
Oli

[loken]

You can control the camera with the Scene.ScrollTo method.

You first have to tell the engine not to follow the actor / main object. So use Game.MainObject = null; first. Don't forget to reset it to your actor after your camera work is done though.

You could then have a series of camera movements by repeatedly calling Scene.ScrollTo. The scene can scroll to an Object, or a set of X,Y coords.

Maybe not as elegant as your thinking, but it works. You could in theory record the movements in Blender and write an export scirpt, but I think that might be more trouble than its worth.

As for zooming, I don't think thats possible with WME. Your restricted to a 2d plane to pan around about. Only way around that is with a theora vid.

Whats this Overclocked game you speak of? Link?

--Loken

[FogGobbler]

Thanks, but I meant the 3D camera we use for the low poly mesh. The theora video would be "underneath" the 3d actor, zooming the environment, but I´d have to move the 3D cam as well in order to display the character correctly.

[Schnuffel]

Whats this Overclocked game you speak of? Link?

This is Overclocked: http://www.overclocked-game.de/
And here's an english preview: http://adventuregamers.com/article/id,641

As far as I remember though, the camera movements and effects in Overclocked are not real-time. They're all pre-rendered movies with the 3D characters moving on top. The same goes for the zoom effects.

[FogGobbler]

Sorry, forgot to post the link 

Exact, they are prerendered movies. This could be achieved in WME, but we need to move the camera somehow, so that the 3D actors are displayed correctly. Any chance that this will happen?

[sychron]

No, that's impossible. The Cougar-Engine is an improved version of the Engine used for The Moment Of Silence, and the creators call it a "2.75d"-Engine. The Camera movement stuff and splitscreen techniques they use are quite unique in the adventure genre.

[Jyujinkai]

it would be possible to use non-interactive sequences with pre rendered camera moves. I am in fact working on this for my project. I am doing it buy setting up the non-interactive scripted movement of the 3dactor in wme (character moves in, while standing still). I then use this movement as a guide to the timing to set up the 3d camera in my 3d application for the pre rendered sequence. After that I then use a video file as a backdrop, witch stops at a still frame, then player interactivity is enabled. Same for hitting a "hot zone" witch triggers an animated camera move.

I am having some luck with this approach in my tech demos but i am not convinced it will work perfectly on different computer specs with different speed may screw it all up.

[Jyujinkai]

after some experiments i have dumped this idea...