Tags: °SS2 °request

no reason to not post this as a regular request, so here goes - it should be possible to recreate at least some SS2 cutscenes in higher resolution and with mods loaded. basically, the cutscene needs to be set up in the editor (some of the vanilla setups are still in place, the waypoints for the shuttle on the station map, for example), then played ingame and recorded. landing, starport, shuttle1 and shuttle2 should be fairly easy as they do not require anything else, the rest will need heavy editing because of all the extra effects.

once set up in the editor, they should be recorded in the 640*480 resolution (max the engine supports for cutscenes), 4:3 with letterboxing (mirroring the original files). SCP, Rebirth, SHTUP and 400 mod should be loaded before recording.

quick mockup attached.

shuttle1.avi would be fairly easy to reproduce. The shuttle animation would need improving though.

shuttle2.avi would require reconstructing some deleted station geometry, but other than that, also easy.

shuttle3.avi isn't in-engine footage. It would require the efforts of a 3D animator.

I think it might be a bad idea to only upgrade two of the three shuttle cutscenes. The higher quality would make the third look even worse by comparison.

humm.. there was this thing that you can export an entire level to another format, right?

I've used this ability for a few object requests, most notably to make the object version of the Valu-Rep.

IIRC it only works for terrain brushes, not objects.

Looks like a...

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWWC-tqePec

It's not a bad attempt, given the stock material he's competing with.