This is my first attempt at making a short Lock On flick. It is nothing great, but I am still learning how to manipulate the views.

Comments Welcome.

Thanks to Furballunderground for Hosting it.

Here is the link,

http://www.furballunderground.com/Guest/Lights%20Out.wmv

Here's some tips with camera angles
Shift-j will have that jiggle effect. It's just one of several clever camera tricks you could use. For example the F2 external view, you can do a different type of zoom with ctrl / or *. You can also use free cam ctrl F11. You can padlock it with the . from the numpad key. One of the main things you will see in other lock on movies is the use of the F4 view, this is pretty hard to master because it requires you to change the code in one of the files. Lucky for us there's an easy way and thats downloading a program called LoCFG. It not only helps you tweak lock on but theres an option in there to change the f4 view. Normally the f4 view is facing your 6 and it rotates around that axis. By changing it, we can place it anywhere like under a pylon, above...etc. Another trick you can use is in the F2 view, you can circle around the plane, then use shift-esc to unlock the plane so you can look around from that axis. It's pretty complex, hope you get it.

Edit: i was writing the post while downloading your video, now that i watched it, damn its good. lol you don't need any tips about the camera angles. And this was your first one? lol Well i'm just going to leave my post here to help future new comers.

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Originally posted by AznKamiKazeKid:
Edit: i was writing the post while downloading your video, now that i watched it, damn its good. lol you don't need any tips about the camera angles. And this was your first one? lol Well i'm just going to leave my post here to help future new comers.

Yeah it is my first... I have played around with stuff but never put anything out. Never thought it was good enough.

What is LoCFG?

Thanks for the compliment

its a tool that allows you to tweak a lot of stuff in lock on, it can be found on lockonfiles.com

Hi Stream,

Just watched your movie..
I liked it very much !
Only one small thing you should not have included was the scene with the rockets fired without any cloud in the background sky, the distance was a bit to far...to be able to see it good.
But that's my only complaint.
The music could be a little bit less loud so we could here the radio chatter a bit more ( I like that ! )

The shot with the flares dispershed by the F16 was excellent !!!

Got a few questions though...

1) Where you flying the F16 yourself ?
Did you use a MOD ? ( like the virtual thunderbirds MOD ) because that uses the F15 format and than the tires don't roll over the runway but just a little bit above the surface.
I did not see that in your movie.

2) When do we get to see yor next movie ???

Don't let your movie making talent be lost for this communitie...

Greetz, Wine'69

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Originally posted by WFAlbertsma:
Got a few questions though...

1) Where you flying the F16 yourself ?
Did you use a MOD ? ( like the virtual thunderbirds MOD ) because that uses the F15 format and than the tires don't roll over the runway but just a little bit above the surface.
I did not see that in your movie.

I did a little bit of both, there was a Mod with one of the graphic tweaks. I had AI fly some and I flew some.

2) When do we get to see yor next movie ???

I am in the process of coming up with something else now. Well see how it goes.

Don't let your movie making talent be lost for this communitie...

Greetz, Wine'69

Thanks for the Compliments.