Hey how do you make movies?

[anarcheril]

So, when it comes to modding I can make models, change models, make textures, make maps, and pretty much everything visual. I cant do any 'real' programming but I can alter code to how I like it...but that's off topic. I'm wondering how you make movies and clips, like what we see at the beginning of Half life 2, with Gman talking. And also, how do you get characters to interact with you, like in Half life we have people like Barney, who right at the begging of the game brings you into the that room with the t.v. on the wall, and he talks about keeping up on his beating quota. So how do I make characters interact like Barney and other people do when they talk to you, and how do you make the little videos like you see right off the bat on HL:2. A tutorial link would be the best, ty .

 

[anarcheril]

found what i needed.

Hey, lol, just found out what I wanted to know, and for everyone else asking the same question, Its a thing called Mod Tool made by SoftImage, go google it.

Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xplUAMlZ-h4

w00t

 

[TheOneFreeMan]

Off-topic, but I just realised something ... during that video when they're showing footage of the player firing a rocket at a strider, the strider turns and fires it's warp cannon directly at Gordon!

I thought that wasn't possible. My understanding of the strider was that the firing of the cannon was a scripted event, and not part of the AI. Interesting.

 

[Otto-Grainer]

Not always the case, but usually they are scripted. Anyway, I was going to recommend Source Recorder but I realised you meant something like the Source FacePoser animation rather than actually 'recording'.

 

[ríomhaire]

Off-topic, but I just realised something ... during that video when they're showing footage of the player firing a rocket at a strider, the strider turns and fires it's warp cannon directly at Gordon!

I thought that wasn't possible. My understanding of the strider was that the firing of the cannon was a scripted event, and not part of the AI. Interesting.

Maybe he was scripted to fire at the player when shot with a rocket? I used to like messing around, setting up a strider to use his cannon on me when a scanner took a photo of me.