Giants Machinima

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Giants Machinima

Post by Davman »

Hey all, ok my idea is to make a giants Machinima (anyone seen Red Vs Blue?) and my problem is how can i get the HUD to dissappear, if not the complete HUD then just the pistol on one character. Any ideas are welcome
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Post by Tasiin »

This is not easy to do. You will need to create fully transparent .tgas to replace the graphics for all of the items on the HUD and put them in the override folder, and then hex-edit Giants.exe to remove or blank out the pointers to the numbers displayed on the HUD, for ammo and vimp meat and such. I made an .exe like this while working on the second version of GK (which will probably never see the light of day), but I'm not sure where it is now. If you're really serious about this, I can show you how to do it, but it's quite a bit of trouble.
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Post by Davman »

well my other option was to jut make the pistol transparent on one character and just lettebox the rest of the screen, do you think that would be an option?
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Post by SSJBardock »

In RvB they just cropped the screen on the bottom and the top to hide the hud, rather than remove it alltogether.
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Post by Davman »

I know that was the first thing I thought of, unfortunatly even with the pistol in giants (the lowest weapon) just cropping the screen would cut out a lot of it, too much by my standards, although based on what it looks like it would take to make the pistol and/or the HUD invisible it may seem my best option at the mo. Also does anyone know any good video capture programs? Specifically ones that will record audio aswell as the video.
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Post by SSJBardock »

Davman wrote:I know that was the first thing I thought of, unfortunatly even with the pistol in giants (the lowest weapon) just cropping the screen would cut out a lot of it, too much by my standards, although based on what it looks like it would take to make the pistol and/or the HUD invisible it may seem my best option at the mo.
Or, zoom in
Davman wrote:Also does anyone know any good video capture programs? Specifically ones that will record audio aswell as the video.
probably fraps, or use a tv-out and record the video on another pc for best framerate
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Post by Glude »

or maybe Nullpointer's tool...
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Post by Zopharks »

Glude wrote:or maybe Nullpointer's tool...
The one that doesn't exist yet? :P
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Post by Glude »

Yes, in other words, will it be ready soon?
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Post by Davman »

ok, for the unenlightened what is this tool?
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Post by Master Yan 2.0 »

I like this giants movie idea. Best of luck with it, I will be looking forward to viewing it in the future. Maybe even take part in it? haha
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Post by Davman »

i know this is an ancient topic and ill probs ge done for necro posting but hey
im restarting this idea so im once again on the lookout for applications and ideas.

Apps- video capture (free with no limitations-inc sound record)

Ideas- if anyone wishes to post an idea or two then be my guest, if they are any good i may even use them
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Post by Zopharks »

Thread necromancy generally won't get you too much grief here, so long as you have something meaningful to say (ie something more than "LOL What!"), so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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hey damn you zoph.. those are my words :P
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Post by Nyvane »

Can someone tell me where to download a video capture program,with sound,video and no time limits? :lol:
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