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Author Post #2199420 Feb 08, 2010 @ 07:43AM
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A big blank green screen somewhere in MC. Then you could photograph or film your character and sub in any background you want.
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Author Post #2199425 Feb 08, 2010 @ 07:45AM
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There is a green screen in the television station.
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Author Post #2199809 Feb 08, 2010 @ 09:24AM
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Can you access that at any time? Or just on missions that take place there?
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Author Post #2200422 Feb 08, 2010 @ 11:39AM
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Only when you have missions there, I'm afraid.
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Author Post #2200790 Feb 08, 2010 @ 01:16PM
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And actually because of the lighting in the room, the shadows/color variance doesn't make it a slam dunk operation. Although it certainly makes it easier. It's a fairly easy for a static image, but for video capture (which I tried), you have to turn your green-screen tolerance really high.

One of the great things about WOW was ModelViewer, a client side app that allowed you to view any model in the game and then animate them with the game's basic animations and you could place them on a green background. This is why WOW for a while had a massive surge in player-based machinima. The famous "hardware store" video, for example was done entirely with ModelViewer.

Camera manipulation in CO is causing me problems for movie creation. Also the combat tends to be over so fast, and is so fluid it makes capturing good snippets of video challenging. I'm still not consistently getting good screen shots with Genesis League outings, but as that improves and I get a better hang of it, I hope to then get better with video capture and build some nice video.

If there is/was a thread on CO machinima, I'd follow it and contribute.



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Author Post #2200865 Feb 08, 2010 @ 01:29PM
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An ice character would be pretty cool.
Author Post #2202313 Feb 08, 2010 @ 09:28PM
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I ended up screenshotting all of them in the same room to keep the lighting consistent, and then painstakingly tracing out the background on each one.

I like the end result, though:
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Author Post #2207507 Feb 09, 2010 @ 08:34PM
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For what it's worth (and I realise I'm late with this), there's a flat patch of neon green on a ledge halfway up one of the buildings in the Ren Center. Friend of mine used that for greenscreening with, and it worked okay.
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