WoW Machinima + WoW Model Viewer/Map Viewer Help, Questions and no answers... Options

[wingedillidan]

Dear question answer-er,

I am a beginner machinima-ist... I want to know how to incorporate WoW Model Viewer and Map Viewer into a movie. I'm trying to get the hang of it. For example, I want to make an ALL Model/Map viewer movie... Even though some like to watch on the REAL game. But, I want to get more advanced-like. The questions are listed here...

Editing Program: Sony Vegas

Question #1 (Kinda Nooby):
I wanna make a standstill picture move from left-to-right or on a path... How?

Question #2:
How do you interlace a video into another video/picture/screenshot/map viewer map. For example, I want a walking dwarf character behind a rock in the video. Do I have to photoshop and cut out everything in the scene BUT the rock. But, what if I want to put him behind a rock in a VIDEO?

Question #3:
How to make a character walk, turn, than wave (or any other combo of moves) smoothly and using only Model Viewer and the editor.

Please help me in my quest of finding the answers to these questions.

-Wingedillidan

PS: These questions may sound nooby... EVERYONE was once a noob... right?! AM I RIGHT?! Oh god... maybe im the only noob!!!! AAAAGH!!!! I can't go on... I'll NEVER be a not-noob!!! I WANT MY MOMMY.... End PS Message.

[Era]

Dear question answer-er,

I am a beginner machinima-ist... I want to know how to incorporate WoW Model Viewer and Map Viewer into a movie. I'm trying to get the hang of it. For example, I want to make an ALL Model/Map viewer movie... Even though some like to watch on the REAL game. But, I want to get more advanced-like. The questions are listed here...

Editing Program: Sony Vegas

Question #1 (Kinda Nooby):
I wanna make a standstill picture move from left-to-right or on a path... How?

Question #2:
How do you interlace a video into another video/picture/screenshot/map viewer map. For example, I want a walking dwarf character behind a rock in the video. Do I have to photoshop and cut out everything in the scene BUT the rock. But, what if I want to put him behind a rock in a VIDEO?

Question #3:
How to make a character walk, turn, than wave (or any other combo of moves) smoothly and using only Model Viewer and the editor.

Please help me in my quest of finding the answers to these questions.

-Wingedillidan

PS: These questions may sound nooby... EVERYONE was once a noob... right?! AM I RIGHT?! Oh god... maybe im the only noob!!!! AAAAGH!!!! I can't go on... I'll NEVER be a not-noob!!! I WANT MY MOMMY.... End PS Message.

1;

Take pictures, make it into a panorama image, and pan from right to left, or whatever your need is. Check out this video for some tips. Sorry if i took the question wrong.

2;

For this i use photosop. I do it quick an easy. Snapshot from Vegas, take it into photoshop, and cut out the thing i want ti be in front of the character. Save it as a PNG picture (no need to chroma key that picture then). There u have it, the dwarf can walk behin the rock if u put the rock in a layer on top of him.

3;

This can be tricky, but ill try to give away how i do it. First u fraps him walking. Then u put that into Vegas. Open the pan/crop options, figure the scale etc with zooming out/in, then find where he will start to walk, drag the timeline to the end, and drag the dwarf there. THen he should walk there smoothly, but speed might be a tard too u, so u must try a few times. As for him to wave, and then go back; Fraps another one of him waving. Put that one into the composition, and heres the trick to get it smoothly; Put that clip in a layer on top of the clip where he walk. Sync it and place him waving exaclty where the walking clip stops. Then u put that clip down on the same layer as the walking clip. With this he will walk and then stop to wave, without seeing its 2 seperate clips. Do the same with walking back.

Iam sure there is an easier way to do it, but this works for me so..

Hope it helped!