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Valve Hands Over Its Own Movie-Making Tools To Gamers
cylonlover writes "Valve has gained a reputation over the years not just for consistently putting out great games, but also for the slick trailers and promo videos that go along with them. But now the developer is turning the tables and handing over its own video-making tools to fans free of charge. With the Source Filmmaker, gamers will be able to direct, animate, and record their own videos as if they were shooting on location inside a video game."
Talking Tom just got aliens, nukes, 5.1ch and whole lotta off the shelf/attic un(der)used gradgets.
the title is innaccurate, they are only giving it to a small number of people.
someone make a trailer for half life 3 then. i can't wait any longer.
Seriously I hate sounding like a fan boy but I can't think of many companies that would do this when they could likely sell this as DLC or something else for cash. I 3 Valve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YrrAroK6bI&
X gonna give it to ya.
Be it 35mm + live actors, digital, silent B&W, IMAX, or this game engine...you still need a good story teller to make a good movie or short.
Let's hope some good story tellers jump on this and make some good stuff.
'Tossing a dog or two down your throat'. Te he he!
You meant... "INconsistently putting out great games." It's been 4 1/2 years since Half-Life 2: Episode 2, with still no word about the Episode 3 conclusion.
It's Valve. Mandatory DRM and an each-purchase-is-non-refundable-and-permanently-bound-to-just-you approach to software distribution. I really could care less if you open-sourced every thing you've ever made, the damage done in the name of greed by your company overshadows any good deed you could possibly do.
Movies don't need to be rendered in real time, what advantage does this offer over 3d modeling packages like Maya?
I think it's great... but when I showed my father he was disgusted by the attitude toward violence. I hadn't seen it but now that it's been pointed out to me I have trouble viewing it without wondering what kinds of desensitized psychopaths the gaming generation is...
Maybe I'm one.. amazingly entertaining twisted little stories in those TeamFortress2 clips...
... would give you patches that patch out it's DRM of year old games so you can play games away from the mothership.
Why is it that all CGI today uses an unrealistic inertia and gravity model? Why do all CGI movies and CGI characters in movies move unrealistically? Take Gollum in the Lord of the Rings - every time he jumps, the gravity model is unrealistic, and thus ruins the illusion. Why is that?
SourceFilmmaker seems to use exactly the same, unrealistic inertia and gravity models. Why?
1) American beer is indeed piss. This is not trolling, or flaming. It is a sad, indisputable fact. But every day, hardworking craft microbrews fight the good fight to drag the American beer industry, kicking a screaming, into tasty world-wide acceptable standards of beer. As an American, I am proud of these microbrews, and I devote this July 4th to their patriotic efforts in beer-making.
2) The French help to the Americans in the Revolution is somewhat akin to the American help to the Brits in early WWII. But no one claims Monty didn't kick Rommel's arse, because he did.
because it's a game about cartoon people, shooting cartoon bullets out of cartoon guns?
Internet begging for steam summer sale?
Eh let's give them the internal movie tool for free. That'll hold them over.
Am I seriously the only one who thought that?
Want to make your own movies, Download Microsoft's 3D movie maker 95 and have hours of fun! lool
A little perspective, please. Beer is an acquired taste, so I'm not sure how you can say it's fact that one is bad, let alone everything from one country. There's no such thing as a universal standard for beer since it all tastes like crap the first time. None of us were born liking beer, so if you don't like American beer, it's simply because you convinced yourself that other beers were better. Beer was traditionally much more watered down, to the point where you could drink it to stay hydrated. So even if you're drinking bud light, you're drinking really strong beer compared to most brews throughout history.
Mass-produced American beer (or "NASCAR beer" as I like to call it) is made with a lot of artificial ingredients. Prior to prohibition, American beer was highly rated, especially cream ales, which were its specialty. All of that beer know-how was lost to ages, and is only now beginning to resurface. I, myself, absolutely hated beer until I discovered microbrews. When I learned that beer can have a bouquet no less complex and interesting as wine, I became a big fan.
When there was a program that did exactly this, and was not much poorer in terms of quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Movie_Maker
Oh god its a beer douche. You are worse than a wine douche.
Oh god, it's a hater. You are worse than a douche.
1) American beer is indeed piss. This is not trolling, or flaming. It is a sad, indisputable fact
Not trolling or flaming? Then you must just be a delusional person with an intelligence level well-below average. You're also seriously misinformed and spouting off nonsense.
The United States (I'm assuming you're referring to the US when you say "America") does not can/bottle urine and sell it. We also don't drink urine.
Definition of PISS
1. To urinate on or in.
2. To discharge (blood, for example) in the urine.
3. Urine.
4. The act or an instance of urinating.
Definition of BEER
1. an alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation
2. a carbonated nonalcoholic or a fermented slightly alcoholic beverage with flavoring from roots or other plant parts
3. fermented mash
4. a drink of beer
Easy.You don't want realistic.
You think you do, but you don't. Realistic physics on the scale of average person-to-person interactions, or in an area the size of a room or parking lot or alley is.. Fast. Way too fast to make any literary impact. You blink and it's over.
All filmmakers and game makers exaggerate physics or slow it down for dramatic effect. It's what you're conditioned to seeing.
A little perspective, please. Beer is an acquired taste, so I'm not sure how you can say it's fact that one is bad, let alone everything from one country. There's no such thing as a universal standard for beer since it all tastes like crap the first time. None of us were born liking beer, so if you don't like American beer, it's simply because you convinced yourself that other beers were better. Beer was traditionally much more watered down, to the point where you could drink it to stay hydrated. So even if you're drinking bud light, you're drinking really strong beer compared to most brews throughout history.
The crappiness of American beer has nothing to do with alcoholic strength, although they are generally at the lower end of the spectrum, it's about the taste and the ingredients.
In the UK you can buy strong "white cider" (7%+ proof) that tastes either of nothing, or piss. It's a cheap way for teenagers and the unemployed to get drunk. It is objectively, by any sane standards, not as tasty as proper cider made from actual apples.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
We'll rehydrate with some tax-free American iced tea.
And I thought you were so butch!
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Jesus wept, I think parent was serious.
Mind you, he's right in the sense American "beer" isn't quite as bad as that from Australia.
Yup, it's like making love in a canoe.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
"Put that beer back in the can it were born in!" - you