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Film Making with Torque

by Timlon · in Torque Game Engine · 10/02/2005 (10:42 am) · 5 replies

Hi,

I'm interested in using Torque for Machinima type productions (short films made with game engines).

The handiest thing for me to be able to do is act out a scene hand record the movements etc to a file where I can reply the file and add more animation on later, again recording what happens..is this possible with Torque?

I noticed in the orc demo by pressing f3 it certainly records something to a file (demo000.rec for example) - is this what I am after? How do I play this file back?

Also I notice in the 3D programmers book there is a function PlayDemo and I think RecordDemo - I type these into the console and they are not recognised - any idea why? What do these demo functions do exactly?


Sorry to ask so many questions, I'm hoping that Torque can do what I want it too - if so I will put my heart into learning it, however I really want to "use" the engine as apposed to understand the inner workings of it, I really want to be able to do the things I am after using nothing more than the scripting which looks nice and simple so far.


Thank you for reading my post :)

#1
10/02/2005 (12:26 pm)
When you start the starter.fps mod, you can select Recordings from the main menu, that plays your previosly recorded demo.
#2
10/02/2005 (7:09 pm)
Thank you Artur :) It wasn't there on my starter.fps but the dialog existed so I added it to the main menu and it works very nicely. Thanks again :)
#3
10/03/2005 (12:35 am)
I cannot find it, can you please explain me how you got it working?

Thanks in advance,
#5
10/03/2005 (2:22 am)
Thanks, I will try it...