Modsupport & howto on shaders

[keks]

Hi, i'm new to moviemaking and tried q3mme for the first time 2 days ago - i tried to start the mme executable with fs_game cpma (which didn't work because the demo playback in cpma doesn't accept any keystrokes except escape and it said "\capture" was an unknown command when i tried it in console) and i tried putting the cpma pk3 with the hud folder into the mme folder and start mme with fs_extragames and the name of the pk3 (which didn't work either). so here are my questions:
1) how do you get a decent hud - like cpma's superhud - i've seen it in movies and the people i asked said it used to work with 'some older mme version' - someone on #moviemaking suggested capturing the hud seperately and merging both videos later...
2) same as 1 but for promode hitsounds - and - in case of NTF (not team fortress) matches - there are backpacks instead of weapons dropped (with ammo for all your weapons and a bit of armor) - looks really distracting when you pick up a rocketlauncher and get armor and LG ammo from it
3) is there any site where i can find shaders? i wanted to make something similar to '******ing french frogs' (i guess thats picmip 16 + glowing corners there) but since i have no idea how to write something like shaders etc i'd like to ask here - maybe someone has re-created it or at least knows some tutorials about shaders
thanks in advance
-KekS

[myth]

You need Auri aka Johns help

[auri]

Hi keks,

You are new to mme. Have you read the tutorials and the faq? I suggest doing that if you have not and then trying out the things talked about in there.

I don't understand how you tried to start with "fs_game cpma". I don't even know what fs_game is. The mod thing? You cannot start the mme exe with a mod. mme is a mod itself and I guess you want that to run and not cpma.
Just start mme with the .cmd or .bat file and use what you have.

1 mme is based on baseq3. No superhud in there, no other hud than in baseq3. That video merging sounds smart. The some older mme version would probably be 1.33.4 which is something so old it does not even have the camera system in it.

2 I suggest recording the sound somehow else, directly from cpma. No hitsounds in mme either, hehe. Don't know about the weapon thing. Must ask canabis to spend all his free time writing bug fixed for such things, go go
I wouldn't bother having a hud at all. Then it will also be unnecessary to have a backpack dropped cause you don't see what's picked up.

3 I don't know any site for shaders nor have I heard about one. Easy tutorial is you open pak0.pk3 with winzip or winrar, go to /scripts and read some shaders, then you might find out how they work all by yourself. Don't recreate effects that have already been used in other videos!

Hope I could be of any help.
John

[keks]

well i've read through the tutorials here on the forum before asking but nothing remotely matched what i was looking for (maybe you deleted them - i read some other post where you stated you would delete old forum entries every now and then) - and which faq are you referring to?
yes by fs_game i meant the launching line (bat or cmd or whatever you like to call the file its in)
about the merging video stuff: i have no idea how i should do that - i mean: i would have to capture the demo in cpma - which if it worked wouldn't have brought me here :S

about the shaders i was curious because i found a couple of skins here and there (for example: www.velocitymicro.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16893 ) so i was wondering if anyone knew any more things and maybe a tutorial on stuff like that

[auri]

this is the faq.

Have no clue about shaders. If you already see that thread and runningman telling that he's bored, go ask him I suggest. Nice skins he did there.

I guess that with the hud is right, exactly what whoever said. Record there in cpma, why should that be impossible? It's a bit useless of course because if there is already a recording program and then you still have to do that for the hud, hmmm.
Why don't you just leave the hud out? Looks horrible and is not needed I think. In 1 of 20 frags or so you find it slightly funnier if you see the hud, nothing else.