Suggestion for a new game feature

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:04 pm

Hi everybody,

New to the Evochron Universe, but really loving this game.

I would like to make a suggestion for the game.

It would be cool if there was a cinematic camera that records the action from a couple of camera views and then allows you to export those as an avi. Maybe just the last 30 seconds of action or make it so it could be toggled on/off.

Some of the action in this game is intense and the graphics are terrific.

I'm sure people would enjoy posting their victories/defeats to sites like Youtube. May even generate some more interest in the game.

Just a suggestion.

Thanks for making such a great game.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:18 pm

Good suggestion. Also Hi Wyvern, Welcome to the Game and Forum. And we already met out there..!

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:49 pm

Yes, actions taken from different angles would be good. This reminds me a flight sim, there is a video room. You can watch your flight from every angle,fly by cameras etc. via changing them like in-game flight.

I think there is similar future in real life, using military bases and schools. Remember Top-gun...

Uses recheck your flight and evaluation purposes...

DX101 · Post by **DX101** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:17 pm

Welcome to the party! I also like that idea!

Post by **Marvin** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:48 pm

Originally posted by warsign

I think there is similar future in real life, using military bases and schools. Remember Top-gun... Uses recheck your flight and evaluation purposes...

Yeah, something like that has been in use for quite a while now. But only for military training.

It would be a really cool in-game feature. But hard to add, I'd imagine. Especially the part about converting a "playback" file to .avi or any other video media. Nonetheless, it would save me buying a digital converter when it comes time to make an intro movie to replace the default.

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:38 pm

You might be right, other games are using their own format that only works in-game video room. But may be there was a converter for known video extensions for those game, don't know.

But, we can easly share our videos and watch them in-game video room and capture this

like a director!

for turning it to known video format. From different angles and fly by cameras, would be awesome.

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:28 pm

I think for avi format, a series of screenshots would be all that is required...and sound. Avi's can easily be compiled from screenshots at a fast enough frame rate.

Daedalao · Post by **Daedalao** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:51 pm

I'd say replay it in a game viewable format, and force fraps or some other program to be used

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:18 pm

Everyone can produce different video from 1 recorded file in video room.
Yes, the idea is this

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:14 am

I forgot about fraps. That would be good. A video room would be a cool idea..just need a few camera angles to get the perfect shot.

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:20 pm

Fraps really works well for me too.

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:26 pm

I like the idea that the game can capture the information and let you replay it in a video mode, so at a touch of a button you can watch the last 5 or ten seconds from a multiple set of cameras, this would mean you could get the right shot every time, since you could concentrate on being the director with the actual flying already out of the way.
( I'm not suggesting that the game actually records it for you though, you'd still need fraps).

In theory this wouldn't be too hard, but I'd be surprised to see it included in the short term, I suspect that it would require a major engine re-write, and the 'replay' system would be a major coding project

[Edited on 12-21-2009 by verbosity]

DX101 · Post by **DX101** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:10 pm

Oh! or better yet, do like they did in Halo 3! Record the AI's in the area, and what you do, so it can leter be convereted into an .AVI!

ryuu · Post by **ryuu** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:03 pm

that seems like it would make the most sense, as you can then set up a series of camera views and then export it as a video, or sent the data to others so that they can watch it from wherever they wish

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:32 pm

Would be awesome.
You can do same thing in video room, changing camera and Fraps it. But this one is giving more control If I understood well.

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:28 pm

I think most programs that allow for playback simply "memorize" all the computer computations that take place during the specified period of play. It's just a data stream, saved to disk or internal memory. The computer then uses the data in the same manner it used it originally ... to display an image any any of the formats available to the game.

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:53 pm

Originally posted by Marvin
I think most programs that allow for playback simply "memorize" all the computer computations that take place during the specified period of play. It's just a data stream, saved to disk or internal memory. The computer then uses the data in the same manner it used it originally ... to display an image any any of the formats available to the game.

thats kinda what I was suggesting, I never really come across that clear

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:49 pm

I make a lot of notes. I try to phrase them so, when I come back to look at them again in six months, they make sense to me. Unfortunately, I don't always succeed. Same goes for the forum. Sometimes I even confuse myself ... as can be seen in the number of times I've used the "Edit" button. I use it as much to clarify things for myself as for anyone else ... which is why I sometimes edit stuff hours or days after originally posting it.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:20 pm

@Marvin. LOL..................

:P:P:P:P

ryuu · Post by **ryuu** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:37 pm

i have been on the verge of doing that many times, then i realise that what i actually posted works and i can just correct the wrong bits in a later post...