Hurricane night intercept - new youtube vid by me (best seen in a darkened room)
 

It's night-time!

http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/CPtJ9-Esbto/default.jpg
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OK, trying something new here: night flying. Before you watch the movie, I have to tell you that it won't work at all if you sit in a well-lit room. This movie is very dark and can really only be seen in a darkened room.

Anyway, going up at night really changes the whole game. Depth perception goes out the window, as well as situational awareness, and is replaced by a pretty scary feeling of being out of one's depth! - Fleeting shadows and silhouettes could be anything, friend or enemy... It is really quite spooky. I'm full of admiration for those who went up at night in real life. Must have been horrific.

Enjoy this one, and as always, comments very welcome!

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Here are my previous CoD movies:
http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwDOTda...1CBC682E928D2A
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/G90yZNZtU_I/default.jpghttp://i4.ytimg.com/vi/wZLZiYGiCds/default.jpghttp://i4.ytimg.com/vi/s73zSerW6-Y/default.jpghttp://i1.ytimg.com/vi/xv4NBoj7Afg/default.jpghttp://i1.ytimg.com/vi/04atCxtxVug/default.jpghttp://i2.ytimg.com/vi/5YY88tx9xWg/default.jpg
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/9b6o-bIWZJk/default.jpghttp://i1.ytimg.com/vi/PlbP0KbJxgk/default.jpghttp://i2.ytimg.com/vi/mKZsvTPEl3s/default.jpghttp://i2.ytimg.com/vi/Udn67mDw7mQ/default.jpghttp://i2.ytimg.com/vi/YDcCr4y0Tms/default.jpg
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thanks mate

Nice Frey!

Brilliant!

A whole new dimension at night..loved the sunrise effects and the cockpit lighting.

Thank you for entertaining again!

wow those search lights feel so weird:confused:

What do you mean by weird? - Apart from the glitch of part of the ray sometimes flickering out I think they look great.

they do look quite thin, but still look great.

Tracer too thick, searchlight beams too thin, damn' they can't get anything right, can they? ;)

Frey im sure i remember somewhere somebody said something about a config entry that controls the number of lights in houses at night. might be worth checking that out.

Very nice video, Frey!

you can make a batsignal with a search light move beyond speed of light py pointing instantly to planets millions of light years apart ;)

Fantastic, thanks.:eek:

Thank for the video.
Now this is what a CLoD forum is suppose to do.

Help others learn how to fly the sim.

~S~
flyer01

Well, I learned how to set up searchlights in this forum, so that really came in handy. It is a little bit of an involved process, but well worth it.

Ah, very interesting that! If anybody knows more about this I'd like to hear it! - Because it does look a little bit stupid that the cities appear like Christmas eve in peacetime... :)

Brilliant, thank you Frey.

Glad you like it! - I'm back to flying daytime missions.... - Don't think I ate enough carrots for night-time duty... :)

Blimey Freyci baby, you nicked all my ideas! But you do it so much better than me!
Nice vid, cheers!:grin:

Good show!

Just great, Frey. Does anyone know if there are any guides to getting started with making CoD vids? There are a couple of things I'd like to make a video of but am somewhat daunted about getting off the ground (so to speak).

Here you go Jim. This is a guide for IL2, but it's the same principle.

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...8/m/6011062176

Warning! This will lead to hours spent in FMB setting up that scenario you always wanted.

There are much simpler ways though. I simply record a mission, edit the views and perspectives in the in-game track editor (but the one in Cliffs is very buggy), frap the whole edited track at full speed with sound, then cut bits out and swap them around in windows movie-maker, adding music or speech as required.

As with all things, it can be as easy as my way, or as complex as Joe 90, barfly and biltongbru's offerings.

It is very addictive once you see your first results though.

Here's one of my first attempts from years ago as a bonus, done in IL2 with a pentium 4 and a ati 3850 (agp). Spot all the terrible stutters and bad editing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6H2pthb5QM

Sorry for the hi-jack Freycinet!

Be my guest, I don't mind bumping.... ;)

My movies are as simple as they get: literally captured on the fly as I play the missions (Because I saw some slightly annoying inconsistencies in the track files). I might move a bit beyond that simplicity later, but it won't be before the summer..

:grin::lol:

Perfect - thanks Dutch_851 & Frey. I can think of worse ways of wasting a few hours!

i really love those searchlights

could you pu like 500 hundred searchlights?

would that be posible?

The winner is...Freycinet!

http://www.celebrities-with-diseases...car-statue.jpg

The light doesn't move there faster just because you point at something far away :)

Ask Albert Speer... ;)

http://nait5.com/2010/06/25/cathedral-of-light/

Nice images there, huh?

Thanks, but others make movies that are a work of art, I don't! - That one would go to Tinus Le Roux.

Nice one Frey.

I noticed your spotlights seemed fairly still. Last time I made something with the spotlights (month or so back) they were spazzing all over the place when enemies approached. If this is fixed, night missions sound much more appealing ;)

Hadnt time to watching it but now video is buffering, so in a few minutes i can enjoy it. Never flew at night.
Thanx again for some amusing minutes.

someone could make a cathedral of light in the game :)

if you project a batsignal in a giantfastic screen the batsignal is posible to make it move faster than light

actually that nothing can travel faster than light is false the true statement is info cant travel faster than light though only till quantum entanglement get broken

this is scientific and interesting on faster than light "something":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy

I didn't see them spazzing but I also only had three groups of enemy planes, the Dorniers, their escort and a lonely Bf-108 that had gotten seriously lost... :)