Basic War Thunder Replay Controls for Cinematic Movie Making
Want to put together an awesome War Thunder video with the Replay function? In this post we'll show you the replay controls and basic ways to edit a brilliant Cinematic War Thunder Video.
If you've been getting frustrated with certain functions e.g. returning to cockpit view, then don't worry as this is due to the fact that the replay feature is still bare bones.
Basic War Thunder Replay Commands
- Switch to Players View: ;
- Switch to the Previous Plane: [
- Switch to the Next Plane: ]
- Show markers in-replay: .
- Hide In-Game-HUD: ALT + Z
Camera Angles
- Gun View: CTRL + F1
- Plane Wing View: CTRL + F2
- Fly By View: CTRL + F3
- Operator View: CTRL + F4
- Free Camera: CTRL + F5
- Free Camera Forward: V: S, CTRL | A: W, SHIFT
- Free Camera Strafe: <: A | >: D
- Free Cam Vertical: V: Q | A: E
- Random Camera Position: CTRL + F6
- Standard Arcade Camera: V
- Follow Bombs & Rockets: U
- Zoom Toggle: Z
- Replay Speed up: SHIFT + RIGHT ( 2x, 4x & 8x times faster)
- Replay Slow Down: SHIFT + LEFT ( .5, .25, .125, and 0.0 - pause)
This is the complete war thunder replay command list detailing everything from camera angles to replay speeds and basic controls. It's fairly common for people to have problems when switching between the camera angles, if the occurs just re-open the replay, sometimes it may be a bug itself.
Using Replay Controls for Cinematic Movie Making
If you would like to produce a top quality cinematic video from the replay function it's best that you can try to record the game play before hand, having a recorded clip from the view you're flying in will help plan out what points you will edit with cinematic replay clips.
Once you've planned your editing timeline you can proceed to the replay, using one of the Control buttons stated above start recording just before the moment you're capturing and record.
If you don't have pre-recordings and only have the Replay footage your best bet is to record multiple times with different camera angles so you can select the best angles for your scene for you to begin editing.
We will post an in-depth guide on how to edit a cinematic video using the War Thunder replay function soon.
Right now it looks like there isn't a way to remove the replay bar at the top of the screen, but it can be removed with two shots. First shot is with the GUI enabled. Second shot uses the same camera setting but has the GUI disabled (Alt + Z). Using a video editor you have the second shot (GUI disabled) on the bottom layer and the first shot on the top layer. Crop out the replay bar but nothing else, and the bottom layer should seamlessly fill in the cropped area.
ReplyDeleteThis should work with the player's view camera and any fixed position cameras but I'm not sure about any others.