-move_cam

**shadowarmy75** · February 07, 2007, 12:52 PM

I've tried searching and no luck. I need a quick tutorial on movie_cam and any tips or tricks that people have. The editor documentation from CA is down so I'm really lost.

**rstoner** · February 07, 2007, 01:08 PM

I haven't really used this feature much myself but here's a link to a screenshot making tutorial that does have some info on the moviecam: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=49260

**shadowarmy75** · February 07, 2007, 01:34 PM

Well I need the info for making a movie out of it.

**Jubal_Barca** · February 07, 2007, 02:54 PM

Google and download Fraps - it's a program for making screenshots and movies in directX games (it also has a frame rate counter). Install & run the program, then press F9 when in a battle to start filming. The frame rate counter (the yellow numbers that should have appeared at the top left of your game screen) should go red.

It works quite well.

Hope this helps.

**shadowarmy75** · February 07, 2007, 04:52 PM

But when you make movies with the cam, it doesn't lag like FRAPS does especially on my crappy system, or so I've heard.

**Ciaran S** · February 08, 2007, 05:44 AM

Well, the movie cam (which isn´t functional any more from 1.3 on anyways) only renders the battles, as far as I know it doesn´t make a file out of them which can be viewed by a third-party program, like Windows Media Player. So you stil need to capture the moviecam movie with a program like fraps.

**shadowarmy75** · February 08, 2007, 08:51 PM

The movie cam is functional in 1.5 as I just came out of it but I need the know the button to start recording. I know there is a button for that because it says total shot time and the time for that doesn't move when it plays so it must be for something and I suspect that it is for the recording utility.

EDIT: After rummaging around a bit, I found the documentation for download at RTWH. Here is a link for anyone needing it. Thanks CA for not keeping small files up so I have to look around to find stuff.

http://rtw.heavengames.com/downloads...hp?fileid=3622

**Ciaran S** · February 09, 2007, 05:18 AM

Oh, sorry then, I wasn´t aware of that, somewhere I´ve read it had been disabled in 1.3, so I thought this was the case for 1.5 as well. It´s good to see that´s not the fact.

Thanks for providing the link, by the way, I suppose it´ll be usefull for a lot of people.

**Kallikratis** · February 09, 2007, 12:06 PM

Thanks, really helpfull link.

**shadowarmy75** · February 09, 2007, 03:23 PM

Uploaded to TWC.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...o=file&id=1162

**waylay00** · February 18, 2007, 03:08 AM

So can you still render TGA files with 1.5 or 1.6 using the movie_cam? I committed to do a documentary for my history project, but now I read that it won't work with 1.5. I used to do it with 1.2 successfully.

**shadowarmy75** · February 20, 2007, 04:03 PM

Yeah, I just tried now and no rendering with 1.5.

So I'll have to dig up EB for 1.2.

**waylay00** · February 22, 2007, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by shadowarmy75

Yeah, I just tried now and no rendering with 1.5.

So I'll have to dig up EB for 1.2.

If you get EB for 1.2, can you please show me where you got it? I'm in desperate need of it, as I have to make a video for a school project in about five weeks.