[Shauly]

As discussed in the recent blog, the Orb of Oculus is a new item, available to all players from Faruq in Al Kharid, which should help budding RuneScape filmmakers to more easily set up shots for their videos. Held in the hands, it gives you more control over the in-game camera, allowing you (or a friend) to act as a cameraman and set up shots for you to then capture with your preferred video capture software.

The hope is that it will make things easier for any players who enjoy making RuneScape videos, and encourage a wider number of players to enter our imminent machinima competition. So, if you’ve ever wanted to make a video of someone taking on the KBD with a bronze dagger (or joke about what you might do should you ever meet Jagex’s CEO...), then the Orb of Oculus should help you to realise your vision.

Although the orb’s primary function is to help make things a bit easier for budding filmmakers, we also fully expect it to be put to other, equally inventive uses, much like Faruq’s other 'emergent gameplay' tools for games.

Mod Fnord
RuneScape Content Developer

[Obelisk]

Hmm Obelisky spying from under a table :P :

Spoiler

Stupid the buttons can't be set to AZERTYUIOP... So annoying. They should have known this.

This post has been edited by Obelisk: 01 February 2010 - 08:36 AM

[dTwizy69]

Good for close up shots, but some of the movements are really jerky, I hope they fix it soon.

[Dk_proska8]

Looks fun, I'll give it ago after i wake up later on

[Miner Disturbance]

Three things I want to suggest:
1. First and foremost, I think you should be able to chat while in viewing mode, maybe a hotkey (f2) the hides/show chat bar.
Whats the point of video making if you cant command anyone?
2. Less choppy motion, self explanatory.
3. Ability to move while filming, not that important though since you can move the camera.



I know, its edited xD

This post has been edited by Miner Disturbance: 01 February 2010 - 09:18 AM

[Firaca]

[Norman X1]

Now we can see how ugly our characters are!!


It also looks like they changed to colors of the spirit sheild

This post has been edited by Norman X1: 01 February 2010 - 09:37 AM

[Lmomjian]

Everyone post cool shots!

[Miner Disturbance]

Firaca, on 01 February 2010 - 10:36 AM, said:

OMG! Made my day! Thanks :)

I never knew how disturbing my face was.....

This post has been edited by Miner Disturbance: 01 February 2010 - 09:44 AM

[lamalord17]

i'm kinda dissapointed, first of all i didn't expect the person to be running around like normal (my expectations of jagex have lowered over the years )

But what we get is even worse... some kind of 'camera' that is supposed to give a wide view...or something?

that doesn't take away from the main dissapointment... it's HORRIBLE to control. there is some kinds of aim mode and some kind of focus mode.

If you are in aim mode, the camera doesn't pan... it sorta hops along. I have no idea why they couldn't make the camera pan like normal. No video would look good like that.

Then there's the focus mode, which makes the camera focus around one main point. This works worse than you would think.
It gives you the kind of pan you get on the login screen, which is nice, but not really usable for machinimas exept maybe the opening scene.

Apart from that, you can film nothing more than you already could, apart from:
-You can't film yourself because you cant talk, emote or wield anything
-Bird's eye view

And even worse, you can't move the camera while filming. well you can, but it's a choice:
-choppy, screen jumping action
-login screen pan (when would you use that?)

It seems to me normal camera is better. you can film yourself (really helpful when you are not excl and you don't have 20 friends at your disposal), and you can move the camera normally.

exept if you want to make a birds eye view. then i guess this works fine. good job jagex

edit: oh look you can zoom in. like we really wanted to see runescape up close. It's so detailed and all.

This post has been edited by lamalord17: 01 February 2010 - 09:43 AM

[im sk8terke003]

hmmm :D

[Andrew]

This thing needs some heavy work if it's going to have any sort of use in making machinima. The moves are very very choppy and the camera flings around every now and then while you move/pan in/pan out.

I have no use for it but it has potential.

[Obelisk]

Can someone post the GodWars "behind secret" door pics in HD? It's quite unclear in LD.

[Miner Disturbance]

Not to mention the directional movements are based on the COMPASS! so disorientating... as you rotate the camera the directional arrows change. =.=

[lamalord17]

after trying out some more, i finally came to a short conclusion

This thing can make any angle you want to. it can close up, zoom out, view an entire field, you name it.
you could make a low angle view in a pk world in edgeville, and get a great shot of a lot of pkers at the same time.

That's it. It's good for screenshots only it seems.
when you make a video, the camera can only move in 1 direction, and it's not the one you want. This is because of an inherent problem: the camera focuses around one point. You can't move the focus point without a lot of choppyness.

too bad. This could've been very good.

[Sean-]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=GAQCneskdzs

[Mitumi]

The Orb in use:

[Rashy]

It looks alright. Nothing fantastic though, and the choppy/buggy movement doesn't really make it very useful for recording. Still makes a great screenshot tool.

[Setanta]

This will be great for shots that can work within the same frame but I'm afraid that is where its use pretty much ends. Hopefully it will be fixed soon though.

This post has been edited by Setanta: 01 February 2010 - 11:54 AM

[Shauly]

I'm very disappointed. The controls are hard to get used to, and you can't do anything while using it. You can't talk, and I don't want to be holding it in my machinima entry. I hope they tweak it a bit.

Shauly