Halo 3 has some very useful machinima features such as the Forge and The theater. The forge is an element that come with the game that lets you edit the elements of the multiplayer maps, this lets you setup the environment however you want for you mechinima.(If your intested in more details about the forge i sugest here)
Forging Your Own Games in Halo 3
by Chris Remo Sep 24, 2007 7:30pm CST
http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=574
Some people spend hours making elaborate add-ons to the levels for games or just for fun, other use it in different ways... yes theses are all made of guns.
The theater lets you replay a level you have played in forge but with an amazing feature you can view anything that happened from any angle. You can move frames forward in slowmotion and take snapshot capturing anything you want wether it be a perfect kill or part of an epic game.
Originally i was just trying to make some machinima to help with storyboard planning and editing but it has allowed me to experiment with a large number of camera angels which has give me a better understanding of its effect on how a shot makes you feel.
these are my shots once i figured how it worked it didn't take long to progress from taking rubbish hud shots to setting up unhindered stills.
All i have to do now is figure out how to get the footage off my Xbox, unfortunately for me and everyone else the Xbox will not let you just copy things off it you have to upload them over the internet to the bungie web site and the copy them off like i did with the above pics but i cant get the videos.
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