Main topic of this weeks Machinima podcast 'the overcast' is GTA4.
Phil and Ricky discuss the latest in machinima happenings and software updates, and then settle in for an extensive discussion of their first impressions of Grand Theft Auto IV for PC. They cover interesting topics like, installation problems, clip capture, filmmaking in single and muliplayer game mode, EULA and IP issues, and graphics cards and more. A must listen for everyone interested in filmmaking with GTA4 PC: the overcast #045
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Finding locations
Liberty City is huge. Found this Google Maps style interactive map that helps a lot for finding nice spots where to shoot your film:
GTA4 Liberty City Map
Nice feature is that you can highlight 'Points of Interest' like, buildings with a sight, stunt jump places, buildings with interior and 'interactive' areas.
GTA4 Liberty City Map
Nice feature is that you can highlight 'Points of Interest' like, buildings with a sight, stunt jump places, buildings with interior and 'interactive' areas.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
gameplay4filmmakers
Filmaking can be much easier when speeding up gameplay and using cheats.
Why playing the game at all? First it's fun and second you need to play through the missions to get access to all the areas of Liberty City (Bohan, Algonquin, Alderley). Of course you can access those areas while using multiplayer maps but that is a different story.
So until there are no 'saved games' available from others and could be used you have to play the game at least to some level.
What helps is using the cheats available in the game. The cheats acivated by typing special phone numbers in the phone. Later you can use them from the cheats menu of the phone.
The most important one are to get health, armour, weapons, cars, bikes, helis, and to change the weather. Yes, you can make a call (to whom?) to change the weather :).
List of cheats
(Those are for Xbox, but will work for PC as well)
I've used those to speed up work for my GTA4 movie Liberty City a lot. Although this movie didn't depend on using any cheats it was very handy to use them. Having a car, bike or heli ready when and where you need it was great help. And changing the weather was useful as well. Not to talk about getting rid of the 'wanted level' when you accidentially hit a police car or shot people too much while shooting your film.
But be careful, using cheats will disable soem achievements in the game you need to get to complete the game at 100% for
Using a taxi during the missions helps speeding up gameplay as well. You can instantly go to the destination by paying some extra fee. Even better after some missions done for 'Roman', he'll send you a private taxi when calling him for this service. That helps, because it's often hard to hitch a ride with a taxi in remote areas or exactly then when you need them. And it saves money as well.
Why playing the game at all? First it's fun and second you need to play through the missions to get access to all the areas of Liberty City (Bohan, Algonquin, Alderley). Of course you can access those areas while using multiplayer maps but that is a different story.
So until there are no 'saved games' available from others and could be used you have to play the game at least to some level.
What helps is using the cheats available in the game. The cheats acivated by typing special phone numbers in the phone. Later you can use them from the cheats menu of the phone.
The most important one are to get health, armour, weapons, cars, bikes, helis, and to change the weather. Yes, you can make a call (to whom?) to change the weather :).
List of cheats
(Those are for Xbox, but will work for PC as well)
I've used those to speed up work for my GTA4 movie Liberty City a lot. Although this movie didn't depend on using any cheats it was very handy to use them. Having a car, bike or heli ready when and where you need it was great help. And changing the weather was useful as well. Not to talk about getting rid of the 'wanted level' when you accidentially hit a police car or shot people too much while shooting your film.
But be careful, using cheats will disable soem achievements in the game you need to get to complete the game at 100% for
Using a taxi during the missions helps speeding up gameplay as well. You can instantly go to the destination by paying some extra fee. Even better after some missions done for 'Roman', he'll send you a private taxi when calling him for this service. That helps, because it's often hard to hitch a ride with a taxi in remote areas or exactly then when you need them. And it saves money as well.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Installing the beast
It took me over 2 hours to get everything done. Wasn't it GTA4 I would have stopped the process and bought another game.
Hint: Download and read the Movie Editor and have a read through it while installing
My firewall send me never ending notices to which sites that game want's to getconnected during installation (didn't allow most of them to get through) but I'm still puzzling what those connects are for and what data they want to send.
In addition you need to create 2 accounts and the additional software and the recent updates for
a) Game for Windows-Live (for multiplayer gaming)
b) A Social Club account to publish and share your movies made with GTA4
And I just noticed GTA4 PC uses SecuROM as well. Search the Web for what SecuROM can cause.
After finally installing everything. I just got a simple error:
GTA4: FATAL ERROR RMN40
Browing the web relvealed:
RMN40- Windows XP: Need to have Service Pack 3 or higher to proceed.
Ok I didn't RTFM before, but I've really not planned to update to SP3.
Fears are high other (older) software might not work.
Ok, made a backup disk and then installed SP3.
After that I finally got it to work. Now I have to start playing the game to get the phone (you need that to get access to the movie editor) and get access to all areas of the game. Great to have some experience by playing the game on my Xbox before.
Hint: Download and read the Movie Editor and have a read through it while installing
My firewall send me never ending notices to which sites that game want's to getconnected during installation (didn't allow most of them to get through) but I'm still puzzling what those connects are for and what data they want to send.
In addition you need to create 2 accounts and the additional software and the recent updates for
a) Game for Windows-Live (for multiplayer gaming)
b) A Social Club account to publish and share your movies made with GTA4
And I just noticed GTA4 PC uses SecuROM as well. Search the Web for what SecuROM can cause.
After finally installing everything. I just got a simple error:
GTA4: FATAL ERROR RMN40
Browing the web relvealed:
RMN40- Windows XP: Need to have Service Pack 3 or higher to proceed.
Ok I didn't RTFM before, but I've really not planned to update to SP3.
Fears are high other (older) software might not work.
Ok, made a backup disk and then installed SP3.
After that I finally got it to work. Now I have to start playing the game to get the phone (you need that to get access to the movie editor) and get access to all areas of the game. Great to have some experience by playing the game on my Xbox before.
About this blog
GTA4 for PC is out now and opens this new world for Machinima Filmmaking. Yes, this version comes with a Movie Editor that helps you making your own movie with it.
See Ricky's post for what this could start:
The Great GTA IV Machinima Flood 0f 2009
I decided to start up this blog to write about a bit about GTA4 and Machinima filmmaking. And to get into blogging a bit as well.
Stay tuned.
P.S. If you have found out something intersting about GTA4 filmmaking, please let me know. I'll be more than happy to add it here.
P.P.S As you see I've just used one of the standard design. I'm not good at design at all. It would great to give this blog a nicer GTA style look maybe. If you like to help, please let me know.
See Ricky's post for what this could start:
The Great GTA IV Machinima Flood 0f 2009
I decided to start up this blog to write about a bit about GTA4 and Machinima filmmaking. And to get into blogging a bit as well.
Stay tuned.
P.S. If you have found out something intersting about GTA4 filmmaking, please let me know. I'll be more than happy to add it here.
P.P.S As you see I've just used one of the standard design. I'm not good at design at all. It would great to give this blog a nicer GTA style look maybe. If you like to help, please let me know.
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