Mercury on 16/5/2007 at 21:59
Has anyone ever done anything like this? With the proliferation of sites like YouTube or Google Video where you can upload your own video clips I'm surprised that with a community that is as rabi*ahem* strongly committed the Thief series as the ones out there that this doesn't appear to have ever been done. :) Tried doing a search of the usual sites and all that people seem to have put up were either the trailers or inter-level cut scenes. Whilst the Keepers' Chapel guides are excellent, many thanks to Dave Johnson, there's something to be said for the audio visual approach as well. Anyone interested in trying to do something like this?
Sxerks on 16/5/2007 at 22:10
I did a quick Valkthrough for my FM on YouTube.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbYUdJYyRvY)
YouTube limits things to 10 minutes, so larger videos would
have to be broken up. The video ends up being 320x240 at 30 fps.
Mercury on 16/5/2007 at 22:24
Interesting. What programme did you use to capture the video? I'm assuming fraps or something similar.
Twist on 16/5/2007 at 22:47
These are 100% loot walkthough videos for TG and TMA:
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http://www.archive.org/details/thief1_gold) Thief Gold
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http://www.archive.org/details/thief2tma) Thief II
Ignore the negative review on the Thief Gold archive page. That fella clearly viewed the videos (if he actually watched the whole thing) as if he'd hoped to see a speedrun.
These are definitely not speedruns. While I didn't view the whole series of videos for either game (Could you? :erm:), I did watch enough to say he did a pretty good job capturing the feel of playing the game thoroughly.
They aren't perfect, but he put quite a bit of effort into blending all the readables into the video. My only criticism would be that some of the flavor of the game is lost because he raised the gamma for visibility. But perhaps that's the only way to make a clear, helpful walkthrough video for these games.
Mercury on 16/5/2007 at 23:31
Quote Posted by Sxerks
YouTube limits things to 10 minutes, so larger videos would have to be broken up. The video ends up being 320x240 at 30 fps.
Really? I've found some old video walkthroughs for Hitman 2 that clock in at the thirteen or fourteen minute mark. Guess it must be a new thing they introduced since they were uploaded. :erg:
Now I just have to find a video capture programme that both works and doesn't bugger up the game. Tried using Fraps a few moments ago and when I turned it on the game slowed down a bit and then the controls became twitchy as hell. I've got no idea what's happening with that. May have to press gang some friends who are more technically savvy than I into having a looking at it, my level of skill roughly equates to poking it a bit and maybe the odd thwack with something heavy. :)
Nice. A little too much blackjacking and property destruction for my liking but cool none the less. If I can get my hands on a copy of Fraps and Tsunami or something like them, think I might try doing something similar but for ghosting the levels.
Sxerks on 17/5/2007 at 00:24
Fraps drops the video card frame rate to whatever it is recording at (30fps).
And it records a raw avi to your hard drive, which is big and if your computer isn't fast enough it will choke. That's why you need to change the in game video resulotion to 640x480, and have fraps record at half-size, the avi file will be much smaller, 23MB instead of 3GB.
I used Windows movie maker (which I thought would crash but didn't) to edit and splice my video pieces.
Twist on 17/5/2007 at 01:06
I'd welcome some complete ghosting videos, especially if they're strictly ghosted and without cheesy exploits.
While those archived videos do show some approaches I wouldn't favor (and even some flat-out sloppy play), I'm most impressed with the fact that they're just complete and available.
Recording an entire 100 percent loot walkthrough of the Thief games and properly editing every readable into the gameplay is a pretty damn ambitious task. He didn't just talk about it, he completed it, encoded it to different quality levels for different download sizes and uploaded the whole thing in an organized fashion. :wot:
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Fraps and VirtualDub work well for me when I record and create videos, but I'm far from an expert on the matter.
dlw6 on 18/5/2007 at 11:23
Quote Posted by Sxerks
I used Windows movie maker (which I thought would crash but didn't) to edit and splice my video pieces.
My Windows Movie Maker used to crash all the time, until I went into the settings and disabled the 30-odd codecs I did not need for my project. Now it runs pretty well.
Don
