Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

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Re: Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

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o_O There's an old guide? Can you link that here, and I'll teach you how to do it in the new TM2. :thumbsup:

So, in TM2, there's a wonderful tool called "Shoot HQ" (I think). Anyway, it can be accessed directly through the Mediatracker, no photoshop skills required! ;)

To do this, pick the replay you want and load it up to be edited. Go to the point in time where you want to take your screenshot, and then go to the top-left of the editor window. You should see what look like two little pieces of film, one with the letters AVI on it (for video), and BMP. The BMP, of course, is to shoot pictures. Before you click that, make sure you have the camera angle set to where you want to take your shot, of course. And, if you want motion blur, at least in my experience, whatever mediatracking you have set previously, you need to change it so that the camera is "anchored" on the car. When I forgot to do that, the motion blur effect blurred -everything-, not just the wheels. :P So I got a muddy mess.

Anyway go in to shoot your shot, turn all options on up to max to make everything pretty :lol: and then shoot your video. Good values I've found for making wheelspin look good without over-blurring? Set motion blur in your options (in the game itself) to .25, and set the screenshot duration to .005. However, if anybody has a better suggestion, I do welcome it as I'm new to this whole mediatracking and screenshot scene. :P I hope, though, that these tips can at least get you started :)
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Re: Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

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Thanks trackmaniack :thumbsup:
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I had a very small value for duration, something like 0.01 for this pic
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Re: Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

Post by index »

Hi,

i suppose, you don´t know TStarGermany´s Tutorial on Mania Creative?

Please take a closer look: Make perfect screenshots of car skins / models

I think, teapot10101´s tip about the duration adds the right kick! :thumbsup:

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Re: Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

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Question for OP (or anyone else who knows, really) How do you get skidmarks to show up in the screenshot?
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Re: Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

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Great! Now add some more replays and get this effect :)

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Re: Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

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Thanks, I was wondering for a while how to get these images done :thx:

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Re: Spinning wheel effect on screenshot?

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This has to be understood :
The values for motion blur are EXTREMELY small if you want to shoot such a scene. Rather 0.01 or smaller.

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Only with very small values you can make the wheels spin but keep the background rather crisp.
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