UDK rendering a cinematic

bcottage

Within my scene i have a trigger that when you touch it a cinematic plays for about 20 seconds. That is all setup, the thing i am struggling with is how do i render each frame so i can later composite togther?

From reading the UDK documents i gather that when i play the game i put this into the UDK command line?

UDK.exe hermetic_map -BENCHMARK -MAXQUALITYMODE -NOTEXTURESTREAMING DUMPMOVIE_TILEDSHOT=2 -FPS=30 -ResX=1280 -ResY=720

what i do:

1. play level
2. copy, paste the code in the command line
3. walk over trigger
4. watch cinematic play
5. close game
6. look for screen shots in the UDKGame\ScreenShots folder
7. empty
8. cry to myself

any help?

shabba

I actually have a small tut on this if your interested. It takes it one step further and uses Unreal Frontend. But it definitely gives you all the images dumped to a folder that you can later composite in any software of your choice.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18IFndC-dPE&quot;]Unreal Image Dump - Camera Flythrough - Turntable - YouTube[/ame] <-- UDK Image Dump process starts around 3 mins or so
Hope this helps, and sorry if its boring!

bcottage

wow man, awsome tutorial really helped me out!

I have a question tho..

When i am in the editor the lighting is 100% fine
When i play the game the lighting is 100% fine

however

When i do the screen dump thing to record my udk cinematic the lighting is borked. As if i have lightmap problems but when i play the game from the editor its how it should be.

I have lightmaps on everything so it shouldnt be a problem

Any ideas?

shabba

Screenshots? I'm not really sure off the top of my head.