Cordie's Video FAQ

[Billz]

Did Cordanilus ever release a FAQ telling us how he does his amazing videos?

I remember that he mentioned somewhere that a command could be entered into the BC console that would change the scale of the ship during the game and I think it was in his tutorial.

I have a modifeid version of CinematicHandlers.py that allows me to control the speed, pitch and rotation of a ship during cinematic mode (F5) but if there is a way to change the size of a ship during a game so that it doesn't 'eat' the camera during flybys, then I would be very greatful if anyone knew what it was.

I only found out about 'Edit()' a couple of hours ago and it looks like it will take some getting used to, but if there is a console command that controls ship sizes, that would be perfect.

[mc6415]

Did Cordanilus ever release a FAQ telling us how he does his amazing videos?

I remember that he mentioned somewhere that a command could be entered into the BC console that would change the scale of the ship during the game and I think it was in his tutorial.

I have a modifeid version of CinematicHandlers.py that allows me to control the speed, pitch and rotation of a ship during cinematic mode (F5) but if there is a way to change the size of a ship during a game so that it doesn't 'eat' the camera during flybys, then I would be very greatful if anyone knew what it was.

I only found out about 'Edit()' a couple of hours ago and it looks like it will take some getting used to, but if there is a console command that controls ship sizes, that would be perfect.

I second this, there's nothing more disheartening when doing a video than having a flyby that looks perfect until part of the ship seems to be 'eaten' by the camera and then you have to start over.

[USS Frontier]

Scale of the ship?  You mean like:

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pShip = <....> #get the ship you want here... Like App.Game_GetCurrentPlayer() for the player ship.
x = 1.0  #1.0 is normal scale, < 1 and >1 are kinda obvious lol
pShip.SetScale(x)
Try that on the console

[Billz]

Scale of the ship?  You mean like:

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pShip = <....> #get the ship you want here... Like App.Game_GetCurrentPlayer() for the player ship.
x = 1.0  #1.0 is normal scale, < 1 and >1 are kinda obvious lol
pShip.SetScale(x)
Try that on the console

It didn't work. What did I do wrong? Could you upload a screenshot of how it would look in BC's console so that I get what to do?

[Jb06]

Put this in your console report screen


import MissionLib

MissionLib.GetPlayer().SetScale(NUMBER YOU WANT TO SET)


that sets the scale of the player... for the targets scale it is as follows:


import MissionLib

MissionLib.GetPlayer().GetTarget().SetScale(NUMBER YOU WANT TO SET)



And to make the ship invisible for those moving drydock scenes, use the following code:


import MissionLib

MissionLib.GetPlayer().SetHidden(1)



to unhide the ship change the SetHidden(0)


You must make sure that you have the same capital letters as I have written or it won't work.

This should help everyone do decent videos, the only problem when scaling it to a different size is that the weapons are misplaced.

~Jb06

[Billz]

Put this in your console report screen


import MissionLib

MissionLib.GetPlayer().SetScale(NUMBER YOU WANT TO SET)


that sets the scale of the player... for the targets scale it is as follows:


import MissionLib

MissionLib.GetPlayer().GetTarget().SetScale(NUMBER YOU WANT TO SET)



And to make the ship invisible for those moving drydock scenes, use the following code:


import MissionLib

MissionLib.GetPlayer().SetHidden(1)



to unhide the ship change the SetHidden(0)


You must make sure that you have the same capital letters as I have written or it won't work.

This should help everyone do decent videos, the only problem when scaling it to a different size is that the weapons are misplaced.

~Jb06

*cookied* 

[USS Frontier]

Forgot one thing which might be the cause Billz:

After changing the scale of pShip, do:

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pShip.UpdateNodeOnly()To update the ship. This might be why the setScale didn't work, assuming you're typing all correctly
Also initially just to test, try the scale with big numbers, like something from 10 to 30 lol

Now I don't remember if sucessive changes to the scale "stack up" or they're always based on the ship's normal size... Another thing you might want to try just to be sure. Or someone who knows could say lol

[cordanilus]

Never tried that "UpdateNodeOnly" one.

And that's only part of the tricks I use, in which JB06 has stated.  I have to be more creative then that when making my videos in order to make them look good.   I also don't (usually) have to go above 12x upscale to get the shots I need.  Another thing I have is an invisible ship in which you don't need to type in anything for it to be invisible (Thank you nifskope).  Only thing you need is a cloak that uses pretty much no power at all (so the enemy can't target you).

I've got more, but this is good for now.

[Bones]

WoW (not World of Warcraft... just simple wow :lol: )
Well man ... I haven't seen you around for a long time (maybe cuz i'm rarely online lol)

[ekbalam]

Cordinalus, I don't suppose you could upload that invisible ship to BCFiles could you? I've been attempting to get an invisible ship for some time for videos, but I can't seem to get it to work right.

[ekbalam]

To clarify...the "SetHidden" works fine. But It is a pain to enter that script into the console each time.