The Halo CE Chronicles - The Ring of Life

The Ring of Life, the latest in the Halo CE Chronicles saga, tells the story of station Commander Harrington, Andrea the AI and a company of marines marooned in the very first Ring World found by man. Part one of this six part story opens with the commander and the marines apparently at odds. Not all is what it seems. The Ring of Life will be released once a week over the next six weeks. You can download the videos in windows media format or streaming format. Visit the Halo CE Chronicles Website for an article (http://hcec.halomaps.org/news.cfm?nid=342) that gives a more detailed overview of the series.

Windows Media Downloads:

http://hcec.halomaps.org/comments.cfm?sec=79
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4737

Streaming Downloads:

http://hcec.halomaps.org/comments.cfm?sec=79
http://www.halomovies.org/index.cfm?fid=2072

What mod did you use to get those third-person running shots?

I just wanted to ask, but how do you take of the name of other players off screen when your making a machinima?

You don't look at the other players. You have to position the characters so that they are not looking directly at the other user controlled player but from the camera angle looks like he is. Also when you absolutely need to have the players look at each other you modify the map and place a static biped there instead.

In most of the filming of the Ring of Life. I used AIs, static bipeds and only two actual players both of whom I controlled (two PCs next to each other). Sometimes a single scene would consist of up to 4 or 5 different version of the same map modified with placed static bipeds so I could control two of them at a time but still have 4 or more in the scene.

Ok. Thanks!

Well, the HCEC have been running for years and they happen to have an outstanding reputation in that aspect. Take a look at some of the older stuff, it's good.