image-et open beta
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21 Sep 2009, 15:55
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News
About
image-et is a tool designed with the goal of implementing state-of-the-art camera effects to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
Overview
- Multi-threaded writes and gpgpu processing improve capture performance (50x)
- Ingame cvars allow realtime preview and scripting of all settings
- Off-screen rendering enables capture at any resolution even when minimized
- Captures are sorted by demo name and timestamp
- Console can be used while capturing
- Enhanced capture precision allows timescaling at any given fps
Features
- Backward and forward demo seeking
- Demo synchronization with latency control
- Depth of field with auto-focus or single targets
- Fisheye lens
- High dynamic range rendering
- Motion blur
- Screenshakes intensity control
Fixes
- Blood
- Breathing puffs
- Color correction
- Dynamic lights
- Entity lightning
- Explosion trails
- Lean animation
- Light flares
- Muzzle flash
- Shadows
- Smoke particles
- Wall marks
Installation
- Click here to download the latest version
- Extract the contents of this archive to your Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory folder
- Start image-et.exe with the mod of your choice (+set fs_game #) or select a mod in the main menu
Tutorials
Thanks
I would like to thank ag0n, Frop, ogrec, and everyone else who had to endure the endlessly long months of testing without which image-et would never have been anything close to the state it is today.
Contact
- madscie at gmail dot com
- #image
Samples
one of the features made it into this build just a couple of days ago is demo synchronization. it's something that i've personally always wanted coded into the game. to those of you wondering what that is, let's just say, it fixes demo playback in realtime to a specified ping so high pingers can actually watch their demos as they should.
i hope this tool gives as much fun to those who use it as it was fun to code and if you have any questions or need any help, feel free to checkout over at #image
Nice job, I always thought it should be possible, it's annoyed me for ages!
EDIT:
Tested it, sooo nice!
Great tool, fast, awesome dof and motion blur. Excellent features.
Thanks, mr crazy scientist <3
edit: Oh and btw i have a working tool to create recording scripts for new image. Working at something bigger atm, but if someone need it meanwhile, pm! click
Nice job though, skilled movie makers will make it work.
Ive never ever thought that this would actually be a nice and very useful tool, this version showed me, that i was in my opinion right. This is a tool for the newcomers in mm, that have no basic clue about layers / frame blend / recording technologies and i appreciate that there is a tool for them, just dont use it with wrong settings :>
To be fair, i already was like woooaahhh nice demo reverse, then i noticed its just some gameframe backup which is totally missleading in the description.
overall, cool tool for beginners.
PS: waiting for the bitch back
PPS: its my honest opinion, and if it does not please you im sorry
i think the conclusions you drew from a first look at this tool isn't fair, given the hundreds of fixes it brings to the game such as shadows, lean, lights, etc. many of these fixes are results of engine bugs that no game mod can ever fix. for this reason alone, this tool should be embraced by movie makers in general.
if you don't like some feature, fine. you can still disable it. but don't castrate the whole tool as something trivial and useless as i'm sure many will find it usefull.
Its just nothing that is needed to make a good movie, it however helps the newcomers or at least the guys who dont want to know what they do but make a quick "good" looking movie.
And lets be objective, the amount of good movies coming from this tool will be way under the amount of crap, overblurred movies :<. Tho this is nothing you can change, sadly.
again, i have np with you and i think, like Larkin said," i must be jealous". :>
Well said, I'm sure we will see loads of movies with very little content and thought, but a lot of dof :p
Seriously, this is an amazing tool regardless of the settings the "newbies" use, and if the self-acclaimed professional movie makers don't understand what features are useful to them then it's their loss.
Keep up the great work!
nice work
Anyway, I also hope it doesn't get overused/misused either.
feels good man, tho i still think i won't be bothered to do a movie hehe
ps: i forgot, all these features are ingame and many are real time :)
If you can do this and a few other things, you could quite literally, save ET.
no pressure
So he should get to work? Give him a break!
There are others who'd love to be involved in an 'et2' project (including myself :p) just needs to get going.
As there is tiny possibility that ET:Live is in development at ID software. Maybe you could drop an email to Carmac, and give examples of your work, perhaps that would lead to something.
/brb dreaming
Where is the donate button?
Keep up the good work!
You can't really appreciate the DOF unless you've tried it yourself. I sincerely suggest you load up image-et and try out depth-of-field with some stills (set img_aperture to 4 and bind a key to "toggle img_depthoffield"). I agree it isn't suitable for every situation, but a skilled moviemaker and/or someone with an eye for visual aestethics will be able to make some pretty intense shots.
might convince me to make another et movie someday :)
great job
would this work with rtcw like the other image versions or is this as the title says ET only?
What is this 50x?
btw all the respect to Madscientist
edit:
just read it: "Backward and forward demo seeking" is that mean i can go backward in the demo ?:o
image captured 749 frames in 125.8 seconds at an average speed of 4.2 seconds/second
image captured 698 frames in 44.9 seconds at an average speed of 1.6 seconds/second.
this took like 10 minutes in the old image :P
and my pc is quite average, 8800gt, e6750, 2gb ddr2pc6400 ram
:)
with an i7 and a nice graphicscard realtime or even faster should be possible? :P
gonna check it out and test it this week.. ;)
#kuraigu . . for some chat n stuff, mate!
Image-et Blog. Check tomorrow for the 1st tutorial (expect some newb stuff, but usefull)
Madscientist >>> Hannes, mostly because he is a nice guy and not a complete bellend.
seta r_customheight 1024
seta r_customwidth 1600
com_maxfps 125
i use a ATI RADEON 2900HD and core 2 duo E6750 @ 2,66ghz
2gb RAM
and dunno im_ settings so if you could lend me a nice cfg for settings it would be appreciated
cl_avidemo 1 = starts recording
cl_avidemo 0 = stops recording
Any guess why?
to rewind 10s
works faster and better
waiting like jukka for the final version
good job