Modders
can
choose a camera position for each line of a conversation in The Witcher.
Even though I
thought I knew what things like "WS" or "XCU" meant, I wasn't sure
exactly how those things were defined in The Witcher.
Would an extreme
close-up show just Geralt's eyes? His whole face?
Face and
neck? When we're
dealing with wide screen, just how wide IS wide?
My adventures tend to be story-driven and dialogue-heavy, so the camera position during important conversations can be influential in conveying maximum emotional impact. Finally I broke down and created a mini-module that went through each possible camera position and took screenshots. And as long as I was going to all this work, I figured that I might as well go to a little extra work and share them with other Witcher modders (all one of you :-) ).
You can just look at the pictures below, or you can download a folder with all of them: Folder with Pictures Heck, you can have the whole little module, if you want it, though I'm not sure why you would: Dialogue Camera Demonstrator Mini-Module
The screenshots below are with Geralt as the person speaking. So if you see both Geralt and Shani, that "left" or "right" is with Geralt as the speaker. I saved the pictures as medium-quality jpgs, since I figured we didn't need excellent textures if we were just checking camera angles, so the file sizes aren't huge.
Right_OSS:
Left_OSS:
Right_XCU:
Left_XCU:
Right_CU:
Left_CU:
Right_Two_Shot:
Left_Two_Shot:
Right_Reaction_Two_Shot:
Left_Reaction_Two_Shot:
Right_WS:
Left_WS:
Right_WS_High:
Left_WS_High:
Right_MCU:
Left_MCU:
Right_Last:
Left_Last:
Right_Xxcu:
No, there's no LEFT_Xxcu. But that's okay, because it looks pretty much identical to plain ole XCU, anyway.
I don't know anything about wikis, but if anyone wants to put this information in the D'jinni Wiki, you have my permission to do so.
My adventures tend to be story-driven and dialogue-heavy, so the camera position during important conversations can be influential in conveying maximum emotional impact. Finally I broke down and created a mini-module that went through each possible camera position and took screenshots. And as long as I was going to all this work, I figured that I might as well go to a little extra work and share them with other Witcher modders (all one of you :-) ).
You can just look at the pictures below, or you can download a folder with all of them: Folder with Pictures Heck, you can have the whole little module, if you want it, though I'm not sure why you would: Dialogue Camera Demonstrator Mini-Module
The screenshots below are with Geralt as the person speaking. So if you see both Geralt and Shani, that "left" or "right" is with Geralt as the speaker. I saved the pictures as medium-quality jpgs, since I figured we didn't need excellent textures if we were just checking camera angles, so the file sizes aren't huge.
Right_OSS:
Left_OSS:
Right_XCU:
Left_XCU:
Right_CU:
Left_CU:
Right_Two_Shot:
Left_Two_Shot:
Right_Reaction_Two_Shot:
Left_Reaction_Two_Shot:
Right_WS:
Left_WS:
Right_WS_High:
Left_WS_High:
Right_MCU:
Left_MCU:
Right_Last:
Left_Last:
Right_Xxcu:
No, there's no LEFT_Xxcu. But that's okay, because it looks pretty much identical to plain ole XCU, anyway.
I don't know anything about wikis, but if anyone wants to put this information in the D'jinni Wiki, you have my permission to do so.