Shattered Machinima

Shattered MachinimaGrant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joseph LaConte

Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joey LaConte "Shattered Machinima" 5/8/2006

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Overview Machinima

Introduction Evaluation Samples

Sample Demo Shattered Hierarchy Ruby Ogre3D Shattered Ruby Project Demo


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Introduction to Machinima

Observation:“Capturing live action, even if it takes place in a virtual

world, is a kind of filmmaking.”

Origin of Term:Machine + cinema: Coined in 1998 by Hugh

Hancock and Anthony Bailey.

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id=3834


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What is Machinima?

Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.

In an expanded definition, it is the convergence of filmmaking, animation and game development. Machinima is real-world filmmaking techniques applied within an interactive virtual space where characters and events can be either controlled by humans, scripts or artificial intelligence.

http://www.machinima.org/machinima-faq.html


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Interesting Fact“The Unreal engine was used by director George

Lucas for pre-visualisation of Star Wars movies and by some other directors.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima


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Evaluating Machinima

Advantages Eliminates the rendering process

Lower overhead Faster production time Capable of producing dynamic effects

Provide resolution independent* Yield smaller distribution size*

Allow easier film making

*Dependant upon delivery method


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Evaluating Machinima

Disadvantages Limited capability Hardware requirements


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Sample Machinima

View machinima at: machinima.com

Machinima of interest:

Medival Weapon

•Airs on Spike TV

•Everquest II Engine

•Hurtaugh and Tiggs

Red vs Blue

•Commercial DVD

•Halo Engine

•Four Seasons

Blood Spell

•To Be Full Feature

•Neverwinter Nights Engine


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Medieval Weapon

Remember Lethal Weapon? Spin off on the good ole

fashioned hijinx that we know and love!

Medieval Weapon: Episode 1


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Shattered Game Hierarchy

R u by O g re

S h atte re d Fra m e w o rk

M ach in im a


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The Ruby Language

Pure object oriented Dynamically typed Interpreted Has gained popularity because of

Rails


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Ogre 3d – An open 3d engine

Free to use Heavily

supported Active

community Object Oriented OpenGL/Direct3d

support Many many

features.


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Shattered Ruby Game creation framework Built with Ruby, and using Ogre Simplifies prototyping of games Follows agile principles Uses Model View Controller Paradigm

http://www.ShatteredRuby.com


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A Short Simple Shattered Sample

class DirtyRubyView < ... material :dirty_ruby_material,

:template => :basic, :texture => "dirty_ruby.png"

mesh "dirty_ruby" end

class ObservationState < ... actor :dirty_ruby camera :position => [-10,0,0],

:looking_at => :dirty_ruby end


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Conclusion

Machinima Shattered Ruby Ogre3D


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References Machinima

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id=3834

http://www.machinima.com/ http://www.machinima.org/machinima-

faq.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima

Shattered http://www.ShatteredRuby.com

Ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Ogre3D http://www.ogre3d.org/

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