FAQ

I have only had a few questions written to me before, but I understand, they can quite annoying, so I will post a few questions and answers here, to save any confusion.

How did you get such smooth circular camera movements?

I use GunMod’s camera hack from MTS2. I then tweaked it’s settings in ‘FirstPersonCameras.txt’ in My Documents. For example, I changed setparam orientationsteps to 60 and setparam translationsteps to 60, but I alter the latter to my wanted level of speed.

High Number-Slower
Low Number-Faster

Also read this.

How do you make custom animations?

It’s simply way too long to fully explain how to do it, there are plenty of tutorials out there. I learnt how to do it from pure experimentation and a couple of tutorials. I may do a full tutorial for this, if I can be bothered, but for now, just look around the net, especially MTS2.

How did you get your sim to ‘drive’ that car?

Everyone uses an editing technique known as ‘chroma-keying.’ I wont go through it, but it allows you to replace a green (or similar colour) with another video, and so creates the illusion, of the sim actor driving or other activities. I have a tutorial here. Greenscreening in Vegas

What video editor do you use? And what other things do you use?

Video Editor – Sony Vegas 8.0 Pro
Image Editor – Adobe Photoshop CS2
Other tools – CrazyTalk (lip-syncing program)

Voice-Over Work?

Well, I don’t usually do voice over work, I might open up to it soon. I have only ever done a short role in one, but as I said, you never know…..