Doug Beman Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 If I play a battle, at the end can I put all the turn-movies into one big file, so that the battle can be played start to finish without having to keep clicking the "load turn movie" (or whatever)? If the first answer is "yes," can the camera angle be changed while the whole-battle movie is being played? That way I can show my friends and say "watch this tank die" and then "now watch what this group of infantry did when the tank died." DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerShark Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 I believe that as it is right now, there won't be a movie-saver from start, but i believe they are working on it. As for the camera angles. Judging from the pbem-game and movies it's possible to rotate the camera. Don't know if it's handy during play though since yer screen is full of panzers...flames..infantery. I'm affraid the fps will drop to zero. Anybody..do correct when i'm wrong PanzerShark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 Wrong During the replay, you can move freely across the battlefield, pan and zoom, move up and down as you wish. You can also pause the action, rewind, fast forward... anything. Also, you can click on units during the replay to get some info about them ("how many guys died from this hit?") and all that. Unless there is REALLY a lot of action on the screen, FPS rates are very good and constant. Believe me - the first time you play the game, you're going to review each turn a gazillion times. I did that - now I'm down to 10-20 times Martin [This message has been edited by Moon (edited 09-17-99).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgra Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 Martin/Fionn and any other lucky sod who's played the game... I'm going to have fun replaying anyway but what 'sequence' do you use to reply now you're used to it? Zoom out first? Important areas first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 I go for important areas first on level 2 or 3 (2 is a view from the level of a 2nd story building.. 3 is a bit higher)... Of course, if I hear the sickening metallic thunk of a tank being hit by an AP shell then I pan around and check out what happened to that. It's just too compelling not to see. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingtiger Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 For anyone interested in seeing the camera replay capability in action download - NHL 2000. Here is a link:http://www.3dfiles.com/games/nhl2000.shtml Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerShark Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 Ehm Martin, Where exactly was i wrong? I believe we said the same thing, right? (with movie-saver i mean saving yer movies to yer hd, so you can review them later, i thought this wasn't going to be implemented from scratch.....or am i wrong?----> God, here we go again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted September 17, 1999 Share Posted September 17, 1999 Wrong about the FPS rates was what I ment, but actually I have to admit that I kinda rushed the answer (note that I had to edit it to get something decent out of that). Comes from sitting in front of the computer drinking Pils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerShark Posted September 18, 1999 Share Posted September 18, 1999 Well, as long as it was some Dutch Brewsky...ya have nothing to explain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted September 18, 1999 Share Posted September 18, 1999 Martin's Dutch Squeeze would like to hear that PanzerShark We have rulled out a single file for playing back your game. Instead we are pretty sure we can get in something where you can watch one turn right after another, but there will be pauses for loading inbetween. The technical problems associated with reading one large file were, frankly, frightening Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted September 18, 1999 Share Posted September 18, 1999 All I say is Grolsch... But I also have some Oranjeboom here for today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannon Posted September 19, 1999 Share Posted September 19, 1999 Would the play back files be useful over in the AAR thread. I'm wondering if it would be possible to post a turn for playback with an AAR. It would certainly be better than a couple of static screen shots and over all the size would be much smaller. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted September 19, 1999 Share Posted September 19, 1999 You need the game to play them back Robert. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted September 19, 1999 Share Posted September 19, 1999 Actually, it would be cool to post your turns as part of an AAR. As Fionn says you would HAVE to have the game to see them, but who is going to want to read the AARs and NOT play the game Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted September 19, 1999 Share Posted September 19, 1999 Ahem.. Remember my beta demo idea? BTW with the release version and any AARs that come in I'd be willing to host all the turn files at TGN for download if there is demand for that. Might even be an interesting way for people to really learn.. Actually WATCHING another player doing everything right when defeating an enemy force is a powerful teaching tool. ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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