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Steam

Starting Machinima Project

Gang - I'm having problems with the starting machinima project. When I run the new mod that I created and then try to play the web movie, it fails. But when I run it just under HL2 it works. There is something going on that I haven't figured out. So, for this first assignment, just use the regular Source SDK, the HL2 game and you should be good to go. The two maps are linked from the homework page and here: (web102.vmf and web102clean.vmf). You should be able to put these maps any place that you like and when you do the run map in hammer it will copy it to the Half-Life 2 directory so it can be loaded into the game. Note, do not forget to put -engine ep1 as a launch option in source sdk and -console in the launch option for hammer so you can do the map web102clean command to load your map (that is for when you load your map outside of the run map command).
Machinima Half-Life 2 project with quicklaunch, source code, and initial maps and here are instructions on how to get things set up and started

Machinima

Half-Life 2

Hammer

Noesis Interactive DVD teaching about how to use Hammer is installed on Lab6-6 in the EMCB 130 computer lab
Building your first map
General Level design
Nem's Tools is a great source for useful tools for messing with Machinima. In fact, consider:
- GCFScape is a tool that lets you take apart the gcf files to extract models and textures
- VTFEdit is a tool to let you import and export textures
How to remove a texture and change it and put it back tutorial from Impulse 101 team fall 06 semester is here - although it is much easier using gcfscape and vtfedit (we need to write a tutorial and get rid of this one).

Faceposer

avi Video on how to use faceposer (part1 and part2) - I can't find where I found these, but we should put in a link there instead of to our local copy!!!
Nice tutorial on how to make a faceposer scene
As it says in the tutorial, you need to download and install the MS Speech SDK 5.1 which is here (note, this is already installed on the lab machines). Also, the one that you need to install is the SpeechSDK51.exe (68.0 MB). This has problems with Vista.
Audacity is here
Here is more stuff on the phoneme editor

Class Stuff

Here is a directory with the Audio files from Tim and James.
Here are the gman briefcase files so it disappears (vmt and vtf). Copy them into <steamdir>\steamapps\<accountname>\half-life 2\hl2\materials\models\Gman

Video