UltraMarines the Movie Thread - UT40K: The Chosen mod for Unreal Tournament 3

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looks like this time it's for real, lets wait and see if it gets anywhere, or we could do a machinima !!!

Lol whats a machinima?

machinima are films made with gameshave a look here Machinima.com , or just watch the UT3 films which where all done with the game

Lol isnt that sorta infringing on copyright though? Using machinima to create a movie using someone elses creations? (eg. ingame characters and weapons)

not really, you just have to be careful, eg no money

Ahhh ok. So maybe we could do an opening scene for our mod using machinima? Ive never used machinima so i have no idea how it works lol

thats the idea, replace a few of the opening video#s with our own stuff

Kool, so how does machinima work? Does it like extract the game models from what ever game you select, then all the user has to do is animate them into a movie?

if it was only that easy, as mentioned before (old forum) i've worked out how to use FaceFX so that we can make our characters speek which is more than i could in the last version.
as for machinima, a lot depends on the game, most don't even give you an editor but with UT3 we get the whole lot, so you can rig and animate any character put them in a map (set) an make a film out of it. trust me it still takes a lot of work to do but thats why i joined this team all those years ago

So is machinima just recording software like FRAPS then?

no, go to make something unreal and look at the machinima submissions. Geodav himself had one.

Hey geodav, what would you think about making one entirely in 3ds Max so that we could have a high quality prerender? It'd be very similar to something you'd see in an actual retail game. We could even use the same models, just spruce them up a bit.

nice idea but way to much work even for a short film. to be very honest i've never tried to make any sort of film in max. i did how ever make a short movie with our UT2004 version mod, i never did do a good recording of it !!!!

Lol id like to learn how to animate in 3ds max, itd be a good skill set to have under my belt.

I agree. In all honesty, that's pretty much what all my time goes to right now. I'm working on a 3ds Max movie before I get too much into UT40k.

Can 3ds max animations, such as walking and shooting be imported in the UnrealEditor and used as character walking/shooting animations?

Yes. That's how you get custom animations. You can set them up as an animation tree for characters, or for single animations for machinimas.

Kool. So if i was to create some shooting animations in max, id be able to export them to the UE using the UnrealActor plug in for 3ds?

Yes, you use ActorX

Lol you just said i couldnt in the other thread. You said Id have to use Cascade.

Sorry, I thought you meant the actual gun animation. The shooting "animation" is actually a particle effect made in Cascade. This is like the muzzle flash, or bullet tracers.

Sorry for the confusion.

Oooo nah i meant the shooting animation lol. Oh well i might learn to use cascade if i get the time.

they've just updated thier site the film/dvd will be released on the 29 Nov 2010, might be tempted

ok watched to film today, not sure if was worth the money but a nice film, some of the walk anims were a bit dodgy but on the whole glad i got it

btw a nice twist in there can't say to much though