Toribash
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How to make a Toribash video part 1 : Introduction

made by Fargle

After 4 months of making videos and perfecting my technique, I decided I had enough knowlege to share it with other people in detailed tutorials.

Objective:

The objective of this tutorials is to introduce people who have never made something close to a video and are completely unfamiliar with this concept. However, as you can see, this is only part 1 of the chain of tutorials I plan to make. I will try my best to focus on a different point of video making in each part so I can be as helpful and precise as possible. If things go well I will probably decide to create an organisation so other video makers can easily share their knowlege aswell and newcomers have a place to ask question.


What you will need:

-Sony Vegas pro:

This is by far the most adapted video editor for Toribash videos, besides, all my screenshots, tips and lessons will use it so you won't go far with Windows Movie Maker. Vegas is not the only good video editor though, you might decide to import things created with other programs to your project but your main work will be centered in Vegas. For instance, the intro to this video made by Bust3r was made using Adobe After Effects:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJanxBKhXs

I am aware that these programs are VERY expensive, specially for people who don't use them professionally ; most of us are in that case. However, the means that you will use to get your hands on that program or the ones that will follow concern only you. This means that no piracy discussion will be tolerated.

-Fraps:
This is a screen recording program that specialises in video gamer screen recording. It has some excellent features such as removal of the cursor, removal of most lag and recording of the games sounds. We will most probably not use this last feature even if you will find that CheZDa uses it in his video "ToriTastic":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHqB6...eature=related

-Either Toribash 3.84 or higher (downloadable here) or an older version combined with FNugget's freecam (downloadable here).:
In the tutorials, we will use the newer versions that use an integrated FreeCam but the other one works just as well and has some cool exclusive features.

-Time:
Indeed Toribash videos are projects that take much time and if you try to finish one with one hour of work every day, you'll end up being much slower that if you made one in one week-end.

-Replays:
Of course, what you will be editing will be replays, try to make a thread in this board to ask for some or simply request them in your clan, organisation or even on IRC (I recommend you drop by #ormo ). Whne gathering replays, try only to pick ones you like or find nteresting, even if they're not the most popular. Indeed you will find that with editing, you can turn a bad, stiff replay into something amazing just by using speed control.

-Ideas:

The point of making a video is to make it special. If you simply stick replays together and synchronise them with the music, you will be un noticed and it will all have been for nothing.

-Music:

Unless you want to try something VERY avant-garde (in which case I can't help you), you will need some music to put on top of your replays. Same as for replays, it's best if you choose a song that you enjoy listening to, otherwise, you might end up not liking your own video. Try to find something with a distinct beat and medium tempo, take examples on already existing videos and browse through the artists/genres you appreciate most.

-A good graphic card and processor:
Indeed Sony Vegas Pro, Fraps and the newest versions of Toribash can be very hard on your CPU. To know if you have the necessary features, you must at least be able to run Fraps and Toribash with shaders at the same time fluidly. When you record it might slow down but it's not important. There are some tricks to make those programs run faster but I won't go into details right now, either wait contact me on IRC or wait for the next tutorial.

-Shaders:
This is actually optional but now everyone uses shaders in their videos and it would be a shame that yours would be looked down upon just because of that. Visit this thread, download thos ethat you like, put them in Games/Toribash3.88/data/shader and then you should be able to run them in-game easily using the /lws shadername.inc command or using the shader menu available in Toribash 3.9. You can also create your own shader using this tutorial made by Blam.


Useful commands:

Here's a list, I'll then detail it:

/lws shadername.inc
/opt hud 0/1
/opt uke 0/1
/opt tori 0/1
/opt particles 0/1
/opt trails 0/1
/opt blood 0/1
/opt floortexture 0/1
/lp 0 playername
/lp 1 playername
/lws shadername.inc will load the shader that you chose.

/opt hud 0 will make all the interface invisible, you will always use this when recording. The game button at the bottom left of the screen won't dissapear with this, you will need to press twice escape for it to leave

/opt uke 0 makes uke invisible, it's useful for parkour and dance replays

/opt tori 0 same than /opt uke 0 but for tori

/opt particles 0 disables flames. They can oftem become cumberous when trying to get a clear shot at a hit

/opt floortexture 0 disables the floor texture. Als useful for parkour and dancing

/lp 0 playername makes tori have the textures and items presents in playername's costum folder. You can play around with this command and this and this tutorial to have really nice stuff going on in your video. For example in moop's video Smooth Criminal, from 0:47 to 1:15 you'll see that he used this command to produce a texture change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=limTyKvqpHA

/lp 1 playername is the same as /lp 0 playername except it works for uke



That is all for now, the next tutorial will teach you all about recording with Fraps and shooting with FreeCam.
I realise that this first part is a bit unconsistant and general but it's necessary to start with something like that. Don't worry, next tutorials will have more concrete advice.

Also, tell me if you would be interested in joining a video makers organisation for advanced artists and beginners if I decided to make one.

~Muffindo
Last edited by Muffindo; Apr 5, 2010 at 07:16 PM.
Very nice tutorial. I actually learned lots of things and I'm sure this will not only help new vidmakers, but also the regulars and pro vid makers.

I'm going to try some of those things out
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Pretty nice tutorial, will help alot of people, such as me.

And as I told you on irc,yes I'm up to join a video makers org, to learn, and improve my video making skills.
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Thanks guys, I'd like to attract your attention to the very last line.
Also, I've talked to people and realised that many lack the shader element is very common. You might then not want to create a Toribash video as the title states but one from real life shooting or another game. The organisation will be named something like Video Makers so as to not to exclude those in the case I stated.
Thanks
I also realize that when I pressed the letter "i" at toribash there's a writing " keyframes cleared/recording begin". Will that be used in making a movie?
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