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[VIDEO] Tutorial to make your custom crowd screenshots/videos EASILY

Aggelakis

By Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-09-12 17:55 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Episode 2 is up: place crowds facing different locations, place specific characters doing emotes, and make the camera movement smoother. Watch it here.

I put together a video to show people how to use my scripts to quickly assemble a crowd with the characters from your supergroup, global friends, or whatever. I explain things quickly, so feel free to pause and go over things at your pace.

I didn't edit the video at all because I've had no time (life decided to get busy all of the sudden), so you can hear me stutter and backtrack a couple of times. Sorry about that.

Thanks goes to Stephanie, who tried to use my scripts for the last 2 days and found them horribly user-unfriendly, so this is my attempt to make sure EVERYBODY can use these scripts to make nice screenshots or videos.

This video only covers the basics (extracting characters and placing them along a path); if there's interest, I'll post other videos explaining more complicated things that the script can do.

Without further ado, here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNIlFDngZto

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Let me just tell you this man has the patience of a saint and more knowledge shoved into his pinky finger then I do in my whole body. Thank you so much again for all the help!

Honestly he took me from two days of this to .

 

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You. Are. The.

MAN.

I... well, damn, I'm just elated to see this and that you are gonna let me USE it.

I gotta go get all my Mains in a screenie...

Ooh... No, I'll ask somewhere else. This is completely WIN!

Mike

/Saw the other thread, but this is... astonishingly simple to do. You, sir, are indeed a Wizard 50+3.

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Originally Posted by Angelus Animi View Post
Let me just tell you this man has the patience of a saint and more knowledge shoved into his pinky finger then I do in my whole body. Thank you so much again for all the help!

Honestly he took me from two days of this to .
He puts up with me on a regular basis. That definitely qualifies him for sainthood.

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
He puts up with me on a regular basis. That definitely qualifies him for sainthood.

Michelle
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ROFL nice

 

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*grins*

Let me be the first to tell you - until you have heard him drunkenly warbling Spanish love songs and poetry, you have NO idea.

(And my Freedom incarnation of Johanna Sinclair is married to Doctor Leo. He could tell her "Ready for teleport" and she'd swoon.)

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Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
Well, I was idly humming and singing "My Way" while explaining the script to Angelus Animi, so she can most likely tell you that you are all crazy. There is something in the Enriche that alters your ears, I think.

Yes indeed he broke into song while waiting for me to catch up

 

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This is awesome! Thanks a ton for taking the time to put this together, Leandro. If you get the time and inclination I'd love to see more videos with you expanding on the things we can do with this.

A wizard indeed!

"Always remember that you're unique -- just like everybody else."

 

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Nice tutorial Leandro!

Yeah. I already "broke" it somehow.


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Leo, you could read a statistics textbook and I would remain entertained.

Also your tutorial is good. >.>

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