Written by: Fredrik Olsson Published: 05-08-04 22:08
Intro
This tutorial will guide you through the making of your own Doom 3 movie with ingame sound, like this one:
Record a good demo
Bring down the doom 3 console and type "recorddemo".
The console will close and your session will be recorded until you die, send a "stoprecording" command, or quit.
It defaults to "Doom 3\base\demos" and names it subsequently demo000.demo, if you don't supply any name to recorddemo.
Convert the demo to .tga frames
Free up some diskspace, a long demo can easily eat up a few GigaByte.
Bring down the console and type aviDemo demoname, for example: aviDemo demo001
Your recorded demo will now playback and save screenshots for each frame. This could take some time, but when it's done, quit Doom 3 and look in your "Doom_III\base\demos\demoname" folder. Here you will find the all the screenshots as .tga files.
Commands of intrest:
com_aviDemoWidth "256" - output images width
com_aviDemoHeight "256" - output images height
com_aviDemoTics "2" - set FPS for output 1=15 | 2=30 | 3=45 | 4=60
com_aviDemoSamples "0" - Smooth out edges with AA, try "16"
Start "pjBmp2Avi.exe" and select the path to your demo's screenshots folder in the directory field.
For example: "Doom_III\base\demos\demoname".
Change the file option from BMP to TGA. Now you should see a list of all the screenshots in the "files" field.
You can also add game sounds to the video. Click Wave file and select the .wav that is stored in the same demo folder as the screenshots.
Go to "Output"-options and select path and name of the avi you wish to create.
For example: "c:moviesmy_very_own_doom3_movie.avi"
Click the create button. An select a video codec when prompted, click OK and the program will compile your .tga files to an avi.
Solve a few differential equations, see how much soda you can drink or come up with any other fun way to spend your time while your avi file is compiling.
The window closes (hopefully) and you're done! Grab some popcorn and sit back and watch your first Doom 3 movie!
Quake Video Maker has some nifty features, that will help you merge different clips with transition effects and import/export RoQ movies among other things.
You can download it free from Quake Video Makers homepage.
Here is a feature list, taken from the QVM homepage.
Import TGA, JPEG, BMP and PNG sequences
into scenes
Import AVI movies
Import RoQ (IdSoftware video format)
Import GIF animations
Import RoQ movies
Export to AVI using available video codecs on your PC
Export to RoQ to create ingame videos.
Organize your scenes
Make scenes transitions
Special effects (PIP,
Overlay, Luma, Monochomatic, ...)
Add your favourite
MP3 or WAV file as the movie soundtrack
Include image
sequences generated by Flash (or other tools) to create title scenes
