Hello everyone. My name is Alexander. And I was actually interested of making the same type of graphics used in the SWK and Cutscenes of the games. But I dont know what softwares where used to make them, Does anyoen know?. I am new to all this so I am not sure where I was supposed to post this.
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You might want to spellsheck your posts, to avoid any possible misinterpretation
Otherwise, the CGI scenes were made with 3DS Max, but you're better off doing them in Blender (because everything at Autodesk is absolutely unaffordable, while Blender is free and open source software).
It requires making a scene, then animating it, then rendering it, and telling Blender to export the render into a video file.
The cutscenes in HoMM3 and MM 6-8 are in either Smacker (SMK) or Bink video (BIK). Smacker is old and low-quality, though. Bink is still in production, so it does make sense to convert the output to it, and there are tools to do so.
Otherwise, the CGI scenes were made with 3DS Max, but you're better off doing them in Blender (because everything at Autodesk is absolutely unaffordable, while Blender is free and open source software).
It requires making a scene, then animating it, then rendering it, and telling Blender to export the render into a video file.
The cutscenes in HoMM3 and MM 6-8 are in either Smacker (SMK) or Bink video (BIK). Smacker is old and low-quality, though. Bink is still in production, so it does make sense to convert the output to it, and there are tools to do so.
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Yes, Sorry. I was in a rush to write all this because i couldn't sign up before and I was getting irritated. I had to use yahoo to finally receive the E-mail.
Anyhow, Thank you very much for you're help and don't worry about the "Un-Affordable" I don't pay for softwares so eh. I think I have 3DS max on one my CDs. I will try to produce some of Might and Magic like short scenes (Like the ones when you visit a shop and it's all animated)
Oh and I know about .BIK and .SWK part, I extracted all these files using the MM8lvleditor, I also have a question. Why do the longer cinematics (Like the ones you get after finishing the game or making alliances) Are in .BIK format and the ones where you visit a place (Shorter ones) In .SWK format?
Anyhow, Thank you very much for you're help and don't worry about the "Un-Affordable" I don't pay for softwares so eh. I think I have 3DS max on one my CDs. I will try to produce some of Might and Magic like short scenes (Like the ones when you visit a shop and it's all animated)
Oh and I know about .BIK and .SWK part, I extracted all these files using the MM8lvleditor, I also have a question. Why do the longer cinematics (Like the ones you get after finishing the game or making alliances) Are in .BIK format and the ones where you visit a place (Shorter ones) In .SWK format?
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Deftclaw Redreaver wrote:Anyhow, Thank you very much for you're help and don't worry about the "Un-Affordable" I don't pay for softwares so eh.
It's SMK, for Smacker. And again, Bink has better quality, therefore it's better suited for long cutscenes, where a lot of colours matter. SMK probably had better compression for short clips or something, although these times it's really irrelevant, as SMK is deprecated in favour of BIK.Deftclaw Redreaver wrote:Oh and I know about .BIK and .SWK part, I extracted all these files using the MM8lvleditor, I also have a question. Why do the longer cinematics (Like the ones you get after finishing the game or making alliances) Are in .BIK format and the ones where you visit a place (Shorter ones) In .SWK format?
SMK is older than BiNK. SMK can compress "bettter", however the compression is visible, so it's only good for scenes where it will blend, due to its age it can use less colors. The colors itself were the reason for developing BiNK format.
@Do you know exactly which 3DS max was used?
At best they used 3D Studio Max R3. Likely just 2.5 That's my guess. Why so exactly?
@Do you know exactly which 3DS max was used?
At best they used 3D Studio Max R3. Likely just 2.5 That's my guess. Why so exactly?
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It really, really doesn't matter. The result is a video, whether you create it with one version of 3DS Max or another, with Blender, with another modelling program, with the UDK, or film it using a camera, makes absolutely no difference. The output is a bunch of images. Which tool to use should only be determined by your existing experience with one tool or another, or platform/financial/moral or other important factors. Use the best available tool for the job.Xdarkon wrote:I needed to know because there's a lot of different version of Autodesk 3DS max. I don't know which one to use better use the one they used
No but I want to be able to create the old looking graphics like the ones in mm7 (Would look better in a mod) Can Blender do that?GreatEmerald wrote:It really, really doesn't matter. The result is a video, whether you create it with one version of 3DS Max or another, with Blender, with another modelling program, with the UDK, or film it using a camera, makes absolutely no difference. The output is a bunch of images. Which tool to use should only be determined by your existing experience with one tool or another, or platform/financial/moral or other important factors. Use the best available tool for the job.Xdarkon wrote:I needed to know because there's a lot of different version of Autodesk 3DS max. I don't know which one to use better use the one they used
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