Your gun camera footage

[Perfesser]

I've been playing with gun camera footage.

In instances where you can't record a track like SEOW I found an acceptable method that doesn't hurt gameplay.

I made a macro in the saitek profile program to take 5 FRAPS screenshots every 1/2 second whenever I pull the trigger.

String them together into a slideshow that only shows the really juicy bits of the combat.

Quality is poor, still playing with settings.

At the end it may show other vids. Indyyeti is my account there. I saved another from a SEOW night mission but it was banned from SEOW as in "recording a track"

Still fighting that.

The macro feature is very handy for other things like raising the gear manually, or getting it down in a hurry. A single keypress instead of flogging one key 50 times.

[Trout]

That's pretty cool Perf! 

[JensenPark]

pretty cool!

[Perfesser]

You do have to have FRAPS running in the background but the screens aren't the framerate killer that video is. You don't notice it running. When I tried a video even at low settings my rate dropped to 40 fps.

You can see the counter in the screens never drops below 60, vsync is on.

Probably handy as a gunnery training aid, check back to see if those high deflection shots are hitting.

[T_O_A_D]

Yep, those macro's can e very useful.

I've got my manual gear that way via Saitek and VAC

Apparently you have your fraps screen shot key other than the printscreen button,

Because the Printscreen button will activate IL2 to do it, and it will cause lag for sure.

If your not already, force frps to record it in jpeg, so it's an even smaller file, so it will be quicker, and less resources.

You might be able to set it to 1/4 second, to smooth it out.

[Perfesser]

I use a function key for activation.

And I'm too cheap to pay for the full version of FRAPS so I only have the .bmp option for screenshots but I use an image edit program (IrFanView) that does a batch conversion on multiple images.

It will convert hundreds of images from bmp to jpeg in seconds and you can adjust other settings at the same time.

I just checked, the screens are 3/4 of a second apart. I could shorten that a bit.

All the screens on that night mission were black but when I converted the batch I adjusted gamma and brightness settings at the same time.