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dartH|Bodhi - Student  |
I spent the better part of the past two days playing with the various cg_thirdPerson variables to take screenshots from all angles of the character I wanted for my Forum avatar. In this is case it was the Zabrak. I didn't want static shots of her posing, I wanted some action shots of her in mid moves like the Kata and the Standing Spinning Windmill Thing(TM). So what I did was setup the Jedi Academy map by using the devmap command. Start up the multiplayer game and when you reach the main menu pull down the console and type: devmap jedi_academy_v4 The reason for devmap is that it allows you to use cheats, and thus make changes to the cg_thirdPerson variables. I then chose the inner temple area for my setting. The various variables you want to change to get a better view of your character other than from behind is: cg_thirdPersonRange: the distance from the character to the camera. cg_thirdPersonVertDistance(I think that's it): the height of the camera from the center of the character. Positive is above, negative is below. Will not change the pitch of the camera (see below). I lowered this to around -24 to get the entire character into view. cg_thirdPersonAngle: what position the camera is at with regard to your character. The camera is always pointed at the character but this changes what you are looking at. This is what you want to experiment with. Some values: cg_thirdPersonAngle 0 - default behind the back cg_thirdPersonAngle 180 - directly in front cg_thirdPersonAngle 90 - right cg_thirdPersonAngle 270 - left cg_thirdPersonPitch: changes the vertical angle of the camera. Didn't use this at all. cg_thirdPersonAlpha: the characters alpha channel. Essentially how transparent the character is. Didn't use it. timescale: this allows you to speedup or slowdown the animations and events in the game in the same way it works in Single Player. Setting the value to 0.1 slows every thing down to 1/10th the speed. And when I say everything I mean it. Sparks slow down, the trails from the lightsabers stay longer, character animations and so on. It looks amazing. I used a setting of 0.01 (1/100th the speed) to get my captures of the staff kata in mid flight and other movements. Have "Street Spirit(Fade Out)" by Radiohead playing in the background  As mentioned, cg_draw2D 0, to turn off the HUD. Bind "screenshot silent" to a key. With the silent argument the game will not print the screen shot messages so you can snap away. Another option would be g_forceRegenTime (or g_forceRegenDelay...) so that when you are doing katas and other force intensive moves, your force points regen quickly. Set it to 0 for the fastest regen rate. To get the highest quality screenshots turn all the graphic details to their highest and set your resolution to 1600x1200. Turn on Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic filtering on your Graphics Card if you can. You will probably get brutal frame rates but since these are still shots it won't matter That is it. I am going to snap some more shots when I get the chance tomorrow and post the results to the Academy Album on MSN when I get the chance. Good luck and I hope this helped! _______________ The Force is a powerful ally... ...and a terrible foe. This post was edited by dartH|Bodhi on Nov 18 2003 04:47am. |
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Tamal - Student 
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Just wanted to say that this thread rocks...now we all can have to tools to amazing screenshots...all I need is a decent graphics editor to spruce mine up a bit   _______________ Tamal
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Odan-Wei Belouve - Student 
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I think that cg_thirdpersonvertpitch works too... Not sure if it does something else though... You don't really need to play with the vertical offset since you still may move your mouse to have the desired camera angle. Then it takes a few tries.  Odan-Wei P.S.: cmad X, yes it is here that I learnt the commands that brought me to make the screenies. I suggest to bind 2 keys to the following commands : "timescale 0.01" (slow motion, long saber trail) and "timescale 1" (go back to normal speed). Using these commands will allow you to slow down or get back to normal speed at will. Important note: some moves won't allow you to move the mouse at all or at the beginning of the move. Others (like katas) are allowing full mouse movement and camera positioning while performing. To screenshoot katas, I suggest to try to move the mouse back and forth to have a less regular saber trail. Hope this helps _______________ Padawan and brother to SmilyKrazy - Adopted in the Belouve Family by Fizz and Bubu, BELOUVE ON! - Vladarion, you'll always be in my heart and memories - Spam-Padawan of Jacen Aratan - [DJ is my beloved wife!  - JA Family: Brothers:
Virtue, Furi0us, Vladarion, Hardwired, Janus, Axion, D@RtHM@UL, Motrec, Mike , xAnAtOs , Luke Skywalker; Little bro to SilkMonkey ; Special kind of brother to Kenyon ; Sisters in-law: Rosered, Ain-Soph Aur] Photoshop works: click here |
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Zeta - Ex-Student 
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in im game its cg_thirdPersonVertOffset, hope that helps someone. |
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Steinin - Student 
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Open up a map with the devmap command. _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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ExiLe - Ex-Student 
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ok it says all of thoes are "cheat protected" no matter what i do!!! how do i fix this!?!?  _______________ Padawan of Silkmonkey!! SILKY ROCKS!!!Proud Member of the {FOA} -a.k.a SeSShoMaRu |
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Steinin - Student
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Got it working. Thanks QuietGuardian _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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Coogee - Student 
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Quote: I can't get the cg_thirdPersonVertDistance working. No such command error. What's the real one? cg_thirdPersonVert worked for me. _______________ Bro of many in a very deformed family tree || Formerly a Padawan of Motrec, Kenyon & Aphex AKA Quiet Guardian, QG and Coogie |
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Steinin - Student
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I can't get the cg_thirdPersonVertDistance working. No such command error. What's the real one? _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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Steinin - Student 
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I didn't know about this. Thanks for the commands. _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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dartH|Bodhi - Student 
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Heh, he did mention it in one of his posts. I hope everyone finds this post usefull. One thing I am wondering is, is it possible to create your own animations for the characters? How would such a thing be done? _______________ The Force is a powerful ally... ...and a terrible foe. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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So THAT'S where Odan learned how to take all those cool screenies _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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AngelD'Kana - Ex-Student 
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REVIVE THIS THREAD f00s I MUST LEARN MORE!!!!! pssssstttt JAC's this thread is worthy of a sticky TarpMan freeze <Secs> freezes the game _______________ SMILY RULES ALL AND SHE CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT Quote: Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain <Jedi_Prodigy> BOOOO angel! SEE SMILY? JP EVEN THINKS IM RIGHT I WIN 12:15:30(AM)] * DJ_Sith gives Jacen_Solo a golden shower }{ [01:33:00(AM)] * DJ_Sith give `orion a wonderful golden shower! }{ [01:35:41(AM)] * DJ_Sith gives doobie|broke a wonderful golden shower!
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Oooo, and it works with JK2 too. Yay! |
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dartH|Bodhi - Student
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*BUMP* Perhaps DJ should make this a permament thread? _______________ The Force is a powerful ally... ...and a terrible foe. |
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Odan-Wei Belouve - Student 
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RyTandus, just try to put a VERY low value when using timescale, like 0.001 if it works. I made my screenies using a 0.01 value. _______________ Padawan and brother to SmilyKrazy - Adopted in the Belouve Family by Fizz and Bubu, BELOUVE ON! - Vladarion, you'll always be in my heart and memories - Spam-Padawan of Jacen Aratan - [DJ is my beloved wife! - JA Family: Brothers:
Virtue, Furi0us, Vladarion, Hardwired, Janus, Axion, D@RtHM@UL, Motrec, Mike , xAnAtOs , Luke Skywalker; Little bro to SilkMonkey ; Special kind of brother to Kenyon ; Sisters in-law: Rosered, Ain-Soph Aur] Photoshop works: click here |
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dartH|Bodhi - Student
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As far as I know there is not, unfortunately. _______________ The Force is a powerful ally... ...and a terrible foe. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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thanks a lot bodhi, these cmds work great! do you know of anyway to actually freeze the game? timescale 0 just sets it back to normal time... _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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dartH|Bodhi - Student
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Bodhi quietly walks into the room, whistling a tune.... *BUMP* Keep up the good work Odan-Wei and CuZzA, your shots are excellent! _______________ The Force is a powerful ally... ...and a terrible foe. This comment was edited by dartH|Bodhi on Dec 03 2003 03:36pm. |
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Acey Spadey - Student 
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wow good work there. here you might want to join in the competition.. http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=5598 _______________ .Lag Bro to Xanatos. Adopted Twin to Bubu. Big-Brother to SmilyKrazy ---- JATSRAD Guru, JASE Member, JA SP Mod Staff ---- The Order of the Stick -- Big thanks to Mango for my avatar -- Quote: Sometimes you've got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.
Quote: (Random hella old quote) <Fizz of Belouve> .. in sovjet russia, cereals spit at YOU!
Quote: whats the point of growing up, if your not allowed to act childish!
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Wolfwood - Student 
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Awesome I didnt know that _______________ ~ Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead ~ |
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Odan-Wei Belouve - Student
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<---------- Look at the result _______________ Padawan and brother to SmilyKrazy - Adopted in the Belouve Family by Fizz and Bubu, BELOUVE ON! - Vladarion, you'll always be in my heart and memories - Spam-Padawan of Jacen Aratan - [DJ is my beloved wife! - JA Family: Brothers:
Virtue, Furi0us, Vladarion, Hardwired, Janus, Axion, D@RtHM@UL, Motrec, Mike , xAnAtOs , Luke Skywalker; Little bro to SilkMonkey ; Special kind of brother to Kenyon ; Sisters in-law: Rosered, Ain-Soph Aur] Photoshop works: click here This comment was edited by Odan-Wei Belouve on Nov 21 2003 01:31pm. |
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dartH|Bodhi - Student
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Just uploaded some new screens to The Jedi Academy Album at http://groups.msn.com/TheJediAcademyAlbum/shoebox.msnw Check it out! Under "dartHBodhi's Screenshots of Fury" _______________ The Force is a powerful ally... ...and a terrible foe. This comment was edited by dartH|Bodhi on Nov 18 2003 04:47am. |
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dose - Ex-Student 
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Thanks man, WEEE!!! *runs off to comp* _______________ "If you hold back anything, I'll kill you. If you bend the truth or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill you. If you forget anything , I'll kill you. In fact, you're going to have to try very hard to stay alive Nick. Now do you understand everything that I have said? Because if you don't, I'll kill you!" |
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Vasper Ba'xian - Student 
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Try /cg_thirdpersoncam .0000000.......1 thats a good one _______________ Brother to: Tamal, Kavar, J.D.,Jermia, Devlin, Ulic, Xiabara, Seij,Tarron Mib,>>>ROCK ON .My Spacescapes art page.My Everything Else art page. MY FAV. Jedi Are: Qui-Gon Jinn, Corran Horn, and Anakin Solo. Unofficial Master to Tamal. and Kavar. Founder of the Wuji Hundun Jian saber style. Proud owner of Tamal's 200th comment!//Proud owner of Refl3x's 300th comment!>>>Proud owner of Tyrant's 800th comment>>>Proud owner of Lucky's 170th comment>>>Proud owner of BDKawika's 444th comment>>>To except Existance is to except Reality.
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dartH|Bodhi - Student 
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In the console type "/dir maps" and it will give you all the maps that are available. _______________ The Force is a powerful ally... ...and a terrible foe. This comment was edited by dartH|Bodhi on Nov 15 2003 11:19pm. |
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