Droidy365

So for the most part, this worked great! However, the audio sounded demonic... I don't know what went wrong...
It may be worth mentioning that my video was .mp4 format.

It has to be uncompressed AVI fam. Get virtualdub, throw your file in there (mine was mp4 but i assume a compresed avi or whatever should work too) and save as uncompressed AVI.

That's how I made the JoF Cosmetic Mod video into roq.

That might solve your problem.

Could you upload all the plugins you have installed for VirtualDub? Every time I try and import any video file, it comes up with some error.

My first mod ever was a reskin of the reborn, not a recolor even - a reskin. I went into the amazing tool that is photoshop and brush-painted onto him some black and red lines for details (first time I opened the software, all I was capable of ofc - I started really small), then felt awesome iirc (imagine the most amateur, worst and ridiculous thing that I still for some reason call a "reskin" - back then I was 12 years old). Next thing I found out was Virtue's saber tutorial (@@Circa you could also add that to the list, I think the website is still up) which introduced me to gmax, the next step. It focused my attention to modeling basics, which in turn made me excited to learn how in hell he managed to make that texture for that saber - which in turn made me look up tens of tutorials of photoshop texturing tutorials for different materials like metal, fabric or cloth, plastic, gloss illusion, basic shadowing. After which I was perfecting said things over the years, until I learned PBR (physically based rendering) texturing and clever modeling from @@AshuraDX which he was kind enough (and had enough nerve, for some reason) to show me. Couple of years and a lot of lost nerves after I became what I do now. With a tiny shred of courage I started trying to do other things than lightsabers, literary, after I first tried the modern workflows three or fours years back.

 

But this is just a story of me and how I became this... surprisingly popular and demanded mod creator here in this community. Still, I would love to see anyone who does not know these things and is not capable of doing these things to at least try their hardest and TRY to follow in similar footsteps. Rome wasn't built in one night. America wasn't conquered on day 1. Give it an honest try over a long span of time and do your best, to try and learn these things, put as much effort into it as if you were studying for your final college exam or working on developing your own business. It is nowhere near as serious as the last things I wrote, it is just your free time hobby, but It will be worth it. About now, I honestly enjoy creating stuff much more than I do playing games - even if I'm not around a lot anymore. Only reason for that is real life and lack of time, tiredness and motivation.

 

If anyone has ever any questions regarding modeling/texturing/shaders or getting-stuff-in-game, I'm always availible and will answer here or on discord as soon as I am able to and I will be happy to help out and solve your problems. I'm a jack of all trades in regards to JKA but these things I'm sure to have an answer for, to take the load off of other people. Grip onto the courage and JUST DO EET!

I'm pretty sure my first skin was a green JK2 Reborn with purple skin (or at least the icon had purple skin)

My second one was a "Knight" - otherwise known as a crappy recolour of the Snowtrooper that's bright white with a hint of aqua, and a red lower cape.

Good times...

I will say that the first thing I ever learned to do was skinning. Then I made NPCs and Bots for them.

/devmap mp/ffa3

I seem to be having this issue with my Base NPCs for whatever reason. Some NPCs will spawn, but most of them don't. This issue is exclusive to Multiplayer - it works just fine in Single Player.

EDIT: It seems to be my Manual Blocking NPC mod that was causing the issue - I might have to make it only change the saber wielders.

@@Droidy365 Does it work in game?

 

Could it be a problem with the dimensions? Your QVM window shows, at the bottom leftish, WxH 512x384. Don’t they need to be in the powers of two just like textures? It may have to be 512x512 but I’m not sure.

I made the video 523 x 384 because that's what the tutorial says to do. I could try making it 512 x 512. That red window to the left is the result after exporting it as an AVI. And no, the exported ROQ doesn't work in-game, either.

Here's the AVI I attempted to import, if anyone wants to have a go (it's for my Sword Art Academy mod.)

EDIT: Ah, I see. QVM won't let me have any other size other than 512 x 384.

EDIT 2: I've worked out how to add soundtrack now, and it sorta shows up in-game, but not really...? It plays the music with a blank grey screen.

When I get back, I can look into that for you. However this particular method skips on sound. It's more useful for a replacement main menu video mod.

 

There is a way to get roq videos with sound but it's not a process that I'm familiar with at the moment.

Okay, thanks mate. The biggest problem with this is that is's just giving me a blank red screen, rather than a movie. It's about a minute something long.

Hey guys, for some reason, I can't get this to work. At Step #5, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to show a mini preview of your movie. When I exported it, I got a silent red screen, rather than a movie. Please help.

@@MagSul

Also, a little fun fact: If you select a weapon other than a saber and use the /saber command, it will change the model of the weapon temporarily. E.g: saber single_1

If you have a pistol out, and you use /saber single_1 single_1, it will put another saber in your left hand and it'll change your animations to look like the cultist commando

I made a saber with the pistol model, sadly it only shoots from one pistol - the other one's just for show. Maybe there's a way to fix this?