Shattered Machinima

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Shattered Machinima

• Grant Cahill, Mikkel Garcia, Joseph LaConte

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Overview

• Machinima
• Introduction
• Evaluation
• Samples
• Sample Demo
• Shattered Hierarchy
• Ruby
• Ogre3D
• Shattered Ruby
• Project Demo

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Introduction to Machinima

• Observation
• Capturing live action, even if it takes place in
  a virtual world, is a kind of filmmaking.
• Origin of Term
• Machine cinema Coined in 1998 by Hugh Hancock
  and Anthony Bailey.

http//jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id
3834
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Introduction to Machinima

• What is Machinima? Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah)
  is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual
  environment, often using 3D video-game
  technologies.In an expanded definition, it is
  the convergence of filmmaking, animation and game
  development. Machinima is real-world filmmaking
  techniques applied within an interactive virtual
  space where characters and events can be either
  controlled by humans, scripts or artificial
  intelligence.

http//www.machinima.org/machinima-faq.html
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Introduction to Machinima

• Interesting Fact
• The Unreal engine was used by director George
  Lucas for pre-visualisation of Star Wars movies
  and by some other directors.

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima
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Evaluating Machinima

• Advantages
• Eliminates the rendering process
• Lower overhead
• Faster production time
• Capable of producing dynamic effects
• Provide resolution independent
• Yield smaller distribution size
• Allow easier film making

Dependant upon delivery method
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Evaluating Machinima

• Disadvantages
• Limited capability
• Hardware requirements

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Sample Machinima

• View machinima at machinima.com
• Machinima of interest

• Medival Weapon
• Airs on Spike TV
• Everquest II Engine
• Hurtaugh and Tiggs

• Red vs Blue
• Commercial DVD
• Halo Engine
• Four Seasons

• Blood Spell
• To Be Full Feature
• Neverwinter Nights Engine

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Medieval Weapon

• Remember Lethal Weapon?
• Spin off on the good ole fashioned hijinx that we
  know and love!
• Medieval Weapon Episode 1

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Shattered Game Hierarchy
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The Ruby Language

• Pure object oriented
• Dynamically typed
• Interpreted
• Has gained popularity because of Rails

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Ogre 3d An open 3d engine

• Free to use
• Heavily supported
• Active community
• Object Oriented
• OpenGL/Direct3d support
• Many many features.

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Shattered Ruby

• Game creation framework
• Built with Ruby, and using Ogre
• Simplifies prototyping of games
• Follows agile principles
• Uses Model View Controller Paradigm

http//www.ShatteredRuby.com
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A Short Simple Shattered Sample

• class DirtyRubyView lt ...
• material dirty_ruby_material, 
• template gt basic, texture gt
  "dirty_ruby.png"
• mesh "dirty_ruby"
• end
• class ObservationState lt ...
• actor dirty_ruby
• camera position gt -10,0,0,
• looking_at gt dirty_ruby
• end

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Conclusion

• Machinima
• Shattered
• Ruby
• Ogre3D

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References

• Machinima
• http//jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id
  3834
• http//www.machinima.com/
• http//www.machinima.org/machinima-faq.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima
• Shattered
• http//www.ShatteredRuby.com
• Ruby
• http//www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• Ogre3D
• http//www.ogre3d.org/