After Effects: Halo 3 Weather Replacement (Standoff)

[Flamez0nFire]

The rain hitting the screen; was that stock footage or was that created by you.

[ClanInfectionist]

@Flamez0nFire It was created by me. I just created a copy of the main conposition and applied a Mr. Mercury effect to it. The copy had to be flipped upside down though because that's what happens with the light is reflected through a raindrop.

[GlimFliker]

dude this is bad ass!!

good job!

[iBotzProductions]

I know you got this from Video Copilot, but could you do a tutorial?

[ClanInfectionist]

@iBotzProductions I didn't get this from VCP, I used multiple different techniques that I learned from watching tutorials from VCP, CreativeCow, and various other places. And if you read the comments you'll know that I've said I'd like to do a tutorial, I just need to iron out some issues with some of my techniques.

[iBotzProductions]

@ClanInfectionist I know you didnt get this from VCP, but you watch the techniques and applied them. Sorry about not reading the comments, my iPhone would not display them :P

[ClanInfectionist]

@iBotzProductions It's cool, it happens. My Droid doesn't like to display them either. Yeah, pretty much I just watched a bunch of tutorials and learned as much as I could, then applied the techniques that I learned to make this. I could have done it better, but I like it and I just don't have the time to go back to it right now.

[CWfusion]

dude that's soo cool

[standerhallstudios]

this is awesome nice one

[TheHLGGhosts]

wholy shit that was awesome.

[ClanInfectionist]

@TheHLGGhosts Thank you. I would like to make a video tutorial detailing how I did it, but I need to perfect the technique first. This took a long tim ebecause of all the manual rotoscoping I had to do.

[TheHLGGhosts]

ight thanks..

[HemisphereMachinima]

can you link me a tutorial with a pm ?

[ClanInfectionist]

@HemisphereMachinima Scroll down to the comment where I reply to St3Vi3123. I link to a few of the tutorials I used, but I actually used quite a few from both Video Copilot and Creative Cow, and a little creativity of my own.

[ClanInfectionist]

I'm glad you like it, I plan to use this or something similar in a machinima, should be fun.

[AlexFotinos]

Really cool!5/5

[St3Vi3123]

can u tell me how to do this please!

[ClanInfectionist]

I might make a tutorial eventually, once I find out a really good way to do it. The way I did it wasn't the best. I would recommend starting by going to videocopilot[dot]net and watching the free tutorials #'s 57, 44, and 42. That will get you started.

[St3Vi3123]

@ClanInfectionist hey i watched the tutorials u recomended, and there kinda confusing, tutorial #44 didnt seem too useful. btw wat did u use to capture this?a capture card? if so where can i get a good one for not a lot of money? Thx

[ClanInfectionist]

44 is the day to night conversion. In a stormy situation things get darker and lose a lot of color, that tutorials helps achieve that effect. And yes, I used a capture card, it's a Hauppauge HD PVR and it's about $200. That's probably the cheapest you're going to find an HD capture card these days.

[eckosama]

lol. it was pretty good. could be the beginning of a great machinima

[ClanInfectionist]

I actually had an idea like that in mind, something similar to when the Super monitors the streets of Mombasa for a long time everything speeds up, I could do something like that and have it start raining in the middle and then slow down back to normal speed.

[jinxy312]

<3 How I wish bungie would do this :(

CoD:WaW had Makin Day why not Standoff Night?

[DARKMASTERLINKX]

the lightning looks like its flipped upside down, plusit never hit the ground :P

i'd still play on this map but i don't have Halo 3 :(

i suck at it too much anyways, but its still a fun game

[ClanInfectionist]

Lightning didn't hit the ground, it hit a pole. Lightning is always attracted to thin or pointy objects because the electrons can gather there easier.

[spartamaislovely]

Damn. I'd love to play with weather like this.

Also, the thunder was quite unrealistic, still great, man.

[ClanInfectionist]

The thunder was unrealistic, or the lightning? Because the thunder was a sound effect I used from Oblivion, ripped the sound file straight from the game.

[spartamaislovely]

The lighting, the sound was quite great. My bad.

[ClanInfectionist]

Ok, that's what I thought. I've actually got an updated version I'm working on in which I've improved the lightning a TON, it looks WAAY better, I"m just stuck on the sky.

[ThornyGamer]

thats a really nic eeffect but i dont like the lightning, you need to work on that

but apart from that its pretty BeAsT!

[Stenniewj]

Really nice, but the ligtning strike need some big work.

[desaster56]

This is very good! Can do for god machinimas for the Social. And yourself, of course...

[ClanInfectionist]

Yeah, like I've said, I need to get an Infectionist production under my belt first. In the 3 years we've been in operation we've only made one movie and it wasn't the best.  If I can get this effect to really work I'll definitely probably maybe use this for a machinima.

[Celebavari]

That's pretty good the sky slips a little bit in the middle but otherwise this is a really good job.