CoH Writer's Guild Review

[RoboZon]

for my next story that im working on i have RoboZon (hero) and a villain i made both as the main charicters.... and theyre both on the same account.... is there any way that i might be able to have a screen shot with both of them in it?
ive drawn a blank

[Tropic]

The only way I can think of is to do a mayhem mission with your villain and take a pic in say Talos Island at a landmark and put your hero in the same spot to the left or right and merge the pics.

But I'm just thinking out loud!

Trop

[Ockham]

The best thing I can thing of is cohdemo files. If you know how to record them just make a quick recording. Starting and stopping it is enough to get your toons costume to record.

Also if you do you where you would like the setting to take place at it helps.

Send me the demo files and I'll make you a screenshot of them both.

See Shades of Crey or 150 Meters to the Ground by me in the Art section. That is basically what I did for those compositions.


Edited for examples:

http://www.cohwritersguild.com/cohwritersguild_354.htm

http://www.cohwritersguild.com/cohwritersguild_352.htm

[RoboZon]

hmmmm the demo one sounded good cept i dont know how to record a cohdemo file
hell come to think of it if i could id have 8 or 9 ppl in the shot.... but thatd prolly be like insanely hard

[Ockham]

Not as difficult as you think. I'll point you here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat ... er=1874789

It's a good enough explanation and how I learned the basics of recording. Basically issue the record command then the stop. The longer the recording the bigger the text file. I usually make macros so I can quickly start and stop.

All I am looking for is the games text entries of what your chracters look like. That I then manipulate into whatever position or pose I want.

I'd suggest naming them something simple and consecutive. (I.E. Robo1, Robo2, Robo3... etc.

[RoboZon]

hmmm.... now that i think of it is there anyway i can do whats in the "Shades of Crey" pic with the countess cept i have the countess... and Requiem....
see what im thinkin is i have RoboZon in the middle maybe floating or something then i have all the heroes and villains lined out next to on either side and the faded heads of countess crey and Requim at the top... i think the image would look perdy kool

[Ockham]

I actually photochop'd Countess in after I created a closer up of her.

Anything is possible with coh.demo. That's why screenshots should be taken with grains of salt. Anyhting can just about be done.

If you want to even try it yourself there are guides in main forums that even walk you through the basic set-up.

[fixit]

photoshop baybee! That's how I'd do it.

[RoboZon]

photoshop baybee! That's how I'd do it.

yea fix... thats usually how i do it too
well heres my plan ive demo recorded all my toons and i have all there costumes
ive already swapped toons sucsessfully on one of (putting a villain it portal corps for example)
so now what im gonna do is go to atlas and hire eight ppl... for a small sum of money... then im gonna have em all line up and im gonna make a demo record of that then im gonna swap them with my toons, erase all the other toons in the plaza, take a screenshot, try to get info on what Requiem looks like, and use photoshop to do a fade of the countess's and requiem's head on the top
sound good

[Ockham]

That's how a learned it by hacking those demo files, which are actually text files.

Also if it's not mentioned anywhere you have looked this little site might come in handy. I cannot vouch for its accuracy becuase I haven't demo hacked in a while.

http://home.twcny.rr.com/scuzzbopper/coh/demos.html

It's basically all of, or most or the entire entities in the game.

Happy hacking!

[RoboZon]

well... after spendin 120000 inf to get ppl in two demo shots... neither of em worked... so i figured id just take a bunch a shots of photoshop em
after two hours they were done... adn what do i do? ... i accidentally push the "dont save" button... uuuuugggggg
im not happy

[Ockham]

DOH!



Still got the demo files?

[RoboZon]

one of em... but everytime i open it it says something about coh having an error and shutting down... but dont worry i got it all set up on photoshop

[RoboZon]

well... i did the pic again on photoshop.... and two hours later with 11 pics combined together.... ITS DONE!!!!
so the pic and the prologue of the story should be out tuesday