Pre-Render for Cutscenes and Ingame movies

Dr.Bunshin · Post by **Dr.Bunshin** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:06 am

Hello again Community!

I was wondering about optimizing cutscenes when I thought of trying to render things like that before-hand. Good idea? Possible? How would I go about doing it?

Dr.Bunshin · Post by **Dr.Bunshin** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:06 pm

Well, Can someone just tell me its not possible?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:42 pm

IN most cases, if you don't get answers you can assume your question is not understandable. What do you mean with 'cutscenes', and how would you prerender them? What do you want to achieve?

Dr.Bunshin · Post by **Dr.Bunshin** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:57 am

Ok hybrid, and thanks. What I want to achieve is pre-rendering. I want to render a scene beforehand. Take the "REALTIME" out of irrlicht, capture each frame and write it to a file.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:59 am

Well, then render to a RTT and save the images with the image writers, or just make a screenshot using the Irrlicht method of the same name (which will be slower, though). You just have to thin about a proper way of presenting the snapshots later on (which would be simply done by loading the image and putting them onto a large quad/billboard.