World In Conflict Broadcast Tool Has Arrived, Comrade.
By Chienne - Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:54am
| The new Broadcast Tool for World in Conflict is finally here! We told you about it on Sunday, and it arrived last night. To refresh your memory, this is a supplementary tool that you can use to record and display all your World in Conflict matches. It uses the DX10-exclusive dual-screen feature (if you've only got DX9, don't despair, read on!), and users can choose between a whole bunch of cameras in order to fully capture the match in all its glory. Now... if you haven't gotten DX10 yet and still want to try this out, we've got a bit of a hacky work-around that will enable people to use the Tool with their DX9 install. This is from [MSV]gagarin, on the Massgate forums: During the development of the Broadcast Tool, we tested a single-screen dx9 version. It has not undergone any proper QA testing. | ) |
...so if it works, it works - but nobody's making any guarantees it'll work as intended. Still, it's worth a try!
Anyway. The Broadcast Tool was originally developed to display elite matches in the e-sports scene, but has now been made available to the extended WiC community.
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Massive Vice President David Polfeldt explains what it actually is:
"The Broadcast Tool is a tool that allows you to view WIC matches in a completely new way. The tool is like an über-spectator that sees everything that is going on in the match, and it works on live matches as well as on replays. It's similar to how a TV network covers a sports event, with access to multiple cameras in the world, each one focusing on a different event. The tool requires dual monitors because it uses one of the screens to simultaneously display all the available camera-feeds (and there can be quite a few!), and the other screen is the "broadcast", the live feed that people look at. The live broadcast can be projected onto a large screen if the tool is used at an event, or it can be recorded into an .avi if you like, there is built in support for that."For more from David, check out this interview... actually, while you're there, check out the whole Gorbenko Report, if you're after some interesting reading - but don't forget to grab the brand new Broadcast Tool, and start making some great videos!
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