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Machinima support in Walking in Stations (CSM)

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  • Raised by: Dierdra Vaal
  • Submission Date: 05 July 2009
  • Issue ID: tbd

Summary

Machinima, movies and clips created using video game engines, are quite common in video game communities - and MMO communities in particular. Examples of Eve Online machinima are Clear Skies and Day of Darkness.

Eve online currently has one major disadvantage: characters are either ships, or a static portrait. While Clear Skies solved this problem by using Half Life 2 to simulate in-ship environments, it is a far cry from the visual styles we see in Eve.

With the advent of Walking in Stations this promises to change completely. With access to both in-space and in-station environments, as well as dynamic representation of our avatars, Eve online machinima stands to be drastically improved. In order to encourage and enable true cinematic machinima it is suggested that CCP keeps machinima in mind when designing the Walking in Stations camera controls.

Suggestion to CCP

It is suggested that CCP pay extra attention to machinima when designing and implementing the Walking in Stations camera controls. A simple example of this is already present in the game, with the 'Set as Parent' and 'Set as Interest' camera controls in the space view. At the very minimum, this should also be present in the Walking in Stations camera controls.

Additionally, development effort allowing, a more advanced camera menu would be greatly appreciated that would allow planned camera movements such as:

  • Pan
  • Zoom
  • Rotations
  • Possibly even cameras fixed in positions other than leeshed to an avatar

Naturally, the above would only be possible if such camera movements did not give a gameplay or tactical advantage to the person using them. So far, footage of Walking in Stations has not reveiled anything that indicates that this would be so, however.

Pros

Improved machinima, which in term are:

  • Cool to watch
  • Great advertisement for Eve

Cons

None

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