Questions regarding last update

[jiyorude]

Hey all!

Came back to the forum after a long while. Been 8 years as well after I made my last Q3 movie, and planning to dive straight into it again. I was thinking to make a Quake III movie to celebrate Q3's 20 year anniversary in december. I saw Q3MME received an awesome new update, thanks guys for that!

I do have a few questions now, or some things I was wondering, as things have changed/shifted in q3mme:


- Can I change the centerdraw font itself? How can I do that? I kind of dislike the original You have fragged font used in Quake III. Even when scaling down the centerdraw it doesnt really suit my taste.

- I see a new mode has been added in Q3MME called Scripts. I have read some topics in the general thread. It really looks like rocket science to me. What do scripts do, how do I load them, where do I store them, and what does the scripts mode exactly do within Q3MME? To my understanding, once a script loads it's just there right? Or is the scripts mode a dedicated editing mode? I have downloaded a complete rar of scripts elsewhere on the forum, but I am a bit lost on how to use these, and possibly, how to make my own. I kind of want to upgrade my railgun, rockets for example.

- I use the timeline in and out function for batch capturing offscreen. That works great. I want to use the demo cutter for on screen capturing as I dislike all the excessive additional space on my demos. And, its because Im too lazy to Shift + A. I have set the in and outpoint on my demo with the brackets, and hit the slash button. Q3MME says the demo is succesfully cut, however nothing changes. Q and E doesn't do anything as I do not have any keyframes set. Do I have to reload the demo in order for it to have effect, or does demo cutting not work in first person mode? The length is still the same after cutting. It normally should jump to the new in point as the starting point of the demo, right?

- To what extent is function 4, the capture function that was originally in previous versions of Q3MME, still functionable and usable in Q3MME 1.8? Is it gone/obsolete? I do see a message in the left corner of the screen indicating that it still sort of ish works, but what I can do in mode 4, I can also do in the timeline mode with visual feedback when I set the timeline in and out points.

Edit october 6th: one last question: When i batch capture with mme renderwith and height to 1920x1080, my screen becomes increasingly bright and colors are off, this normally happens when i start quake 3, so i know it is normal. but when i want to do something else when the batch capture happens it can be a bit frustrating. if i change renderwith and height in the bat file to zero, will it still render at 1080p and then for instance stop the brighter colors?


Thnx guys!

[ent]

Hi.

You can find some useful commands in mme folder in files cmds.txt and cvars.txt.

1. You can change the font used in the frag message, try using mov_fontName and mov_fontSize cvars: github.com/entdark/q3mme/blob/master/cvars.txt#L32

2. Scripts feature. I am actually not sure about scripts since I haven't touched that code. But according to what I see in the code it's just the same kind of key points things like camera, timeline etc but it executes console commands in the given time. Seems like that feature is not completed because I don't see how would you add commands to execute.
An example of how the script would look like a project file:
<script>
<locked>1</locked>
<point>
<time>      2000</time>
<run>screenshot</run>
<init></init>
</point>
<point>
<time>      5000</time>
<run>toggleconsole</run>
<init></init>
</point>
</script>

3. It generates a new demo file with the "_cut" suffix. You have to load that new demo file.

4. Effects feature. It's an unfinished feature but according to the code it looks almost finished. It lets you create effects directly in game using the new q3mme effects system that is usually used in weapons. It's also key points based feature.

5. r_overBrightBits 0

Good luck.

[jiyorude]

Awesome! Thanks a lot.

Here is the final product of what I was working on:



A bit of a experimental short by only using Depth of Field maps. I'll be focusing now on familiarizing myself with all the advanced stuff in Q3MME and make a normal frag video

[auri]

Wow, beautiful. I really like the look, the grain, and the music fits as well.
I think for this look first person real time scenes are too hectic. Maybe slight slow motion or just camera views. Anyway, how really cool.

Don't forget to keep the grain. Without it it wouldn't be as good!
Interested in what you will make of this.

[jiyorude]

Thank you so much! It means a lot I will take it into account for my next project!

[jiyorude]

I do have one more last question regarding the usage of custom fonts. I seem not to be able to get it to work while rendering. I used the font Helvetica Condensed medium, one of my favorite fonts. Here is what I did:

1. it was a OTF file, so I used a OTF to TTF converter, downloaded the file and placed it in the mme folder.
2. Opened a demo: mov_fontName Helvetica.ttf
3. Saved my project, exited out of MME, rebooted.
4. The font showed up. After changing centerprint, mov_fontsize and the fragmessage, it looked really crisp and neat.
5. Set the capture parameters, saved to offscreen capture list, and exited out.
6. Rendered out all my demo's. Upon reviewing the same quake 3 font was used, but with my new fragmessage and spacing resulting in everything looking out of whack.

Is this purely because I converted a OTF to TTF file, or am I missing a additional step here to make it work? I even tried something by opening the project.txt file in mme, and added the cvar mov_fontsize and added helvetica.ttf in the value. That didn't seem to help.

I placed a video with some of the demo's I made underneath.

[jiyorude]

Problem solved.
I think it was a bad formatted OTF.

Changed the font to this sexy guy (Coolvetica), and it finally showed up.  Good test. Now time to find something less Comic Sansy.

[auri]

Good: I am glad you were able to figure it out!
Badd: That is one ugly-ass font, especially with the shadow : D