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Record avi videos in Quake 3
Written by: Fredrik Olsson
Published: 05-08-06 20:38 |
Quake 3 movies?
You might have seen some slick Quake 3 videos with trick jumping and 1337 kills, this tutorial will help you create your own Quake 3 avi videos.
Record your fragfest
Start a game, bring down the Quake 3 console and type:
g_synchronousClients 1
record demo1
The console will close and your session will be recorded until you send a "stoprecord" command.
Convert the Q3 demo to .tga frames
Make sure you have enough free diskspace, a long demo can easily eat up a few GB of data.
Bring down the console and type: cl_avidemo 25, to record in 25 fps. Start recording frames for you Quake 3 video, by typing demo demo1
Sit back and relax while the frames are beeing rendered. Setting cl_avidemo 0 will make demos run normal again.
When it's done, quit Quake 3 and you should find your recorded frames in the "Quake_III\screenshots" directory as .tga files.
note: Quake 3 will output images in the same size as your Q3 screen resolution, a tip to speed up frame rendering of your video is to set it to low, for example 320x240.
Marge your frames into an .avi video
Download this freeware program:
pjBmp2Avi.zip
or check out Quake Video Maker if you wanna make more advanced movies.
Start "pjBmp2Avi.exe" and select the path to your demo's screenshots folder in the directory field.
For example: "Quake_III\screenshots".
Change the file option from BMP to TGA. Now you should see a list of all the screenshots in the "files" field.
Go to "Output"-options and select path and name of the avi you wish to create.
For example: "c:\film_time\my_quake_3_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.
Poke your Orb action figure in the eye, practice sweeping moves with you mouse or come up with any other fun way to spend your time while your Quake 3 avi video is compiling.
The window closes (hopefully) and you're done! Grab some snacks and sit back and watch your first Quake 3 movie!
Create more advanced movies
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
Thanks to Bluehair on Doom3Files for suggesting Quake Video Maker
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