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九名不同的雇佣兵为了寻找工作而聚在一起。就像上世纪中期我们所做的。 那时有三家电视台，一家电话公司以及两家秘密控制着地球上每个国家政府的控股公司。 这两家公司都拥有一只纪律严明的雇佣兵军队，并借此各自控制着半个地球。对于任何缺乏官方解决方案的物体，他们则会使用大规模的武装交涉作为解决问题的手段。 现在，你有机会去拜见这些佣兵们。 — 拜见团队系列视频概述

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拜见团队视频是由军团要塞2中每个兵种主演的一系列电脑动画短片。

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关于拜见团队系列视频

这些短片的灵感来源于为游戏中重机枪手，狙击手以及其他兵种配音的配音演员的试镜过程。这套短片的第一个视频，应该是在2007年发布的拜见重机枪手，其内容简直与VALVE为配音演员加里施瓦茨进行录像时一模一样。这视频是被用于提升游戏知名度的。在第一部视频拜见重机枪手放出后，观众们对其高质量的画质以及幽默的台词大为赞赏，仿佛这个视频是由类似皮克斯一样的专业动画制作小组所制作的。由于这种热烈的反应，Valve宣布计划为每一个游戏中的兵种制作宣传视频，并且也可能为非人物角色制作视频，例如已经发布的视频拜见三明治。现在，只有医生和火焰兵的视频还没有公布。罗宾沃克则声明这些视频“结合我们的计划以及不断更新的军团要塞2……这一切将变得大有意义。” “这些视频的意义在于能够给予那些没有军团要塞2的人一些娱乐，并从而使得他们转变成军团要塞2玩家。”[1]

The videos were not released for promotional purposes and fan service alone but also influenced the game itself. Eric Wolpaw stated that "It helped everyone on the team get a little bit more in tune with who that particular character was, so we just kept knocking them out and they kept on being popular," An example of how the videos influenced the design of the game was the Sandvich, which according to Robin Walker "came almost directly out of the movie… We felt the movie had justified and created a way for us to have a 'Sandvich' in the game and have that action [of eating it] make any kind of sense in our game world." Jarate was also added into the game after it's appearance in Meet the Sniper.

The videos also helped the game's technology. Valve used Meet the Heavy to test the facial animation system the studio was developing for TF2. According to Walker, the new system "allowed our characters to have a much greater range of expressions than we were able to do in Half-Life… We wanted a test case for that." Ultimately, what they got to work in the Meet the Team videos is what would display for players running the game itself at its highest settings. Walker recalled that team's pleasure about "the expression on the Heavy at the end when he's shooting and screaming." It was no fake. "It wasn't this thing that the coolest bit in [the movie] was something that would happen in the game."

Source Filmmaker

The tool used to create Team Fortress 2's "Meet the Team" videos as well as Left 4 Dead's introduction video is the Source Filmmaker, an application that runs inside the engine. It allows users to record themselves many times over in the same scene, creating the illusion of many participants, as well as supporting a wide range of cinematographic effects and techniques such as motion blur and depth of field. (Motion blur has now been added to the games themselves, though only when the view is moving at high speeds - not per-object as in the film-maker). The tool also allows the use of extra-high quality textures for the classes as seen in the Meet the Team videos. This tool was leaked, being only possible to use with the public beta version of TF2. Valve have stated an intention to release the tool publicly at some point in the future. Many videos using the Source Filmmaker can be found on YouTube[2].

External Links

• Official Meet the Team Page
• Valve Dreams Of Team Fortress 2 Movie, Divulges 'Meet The Team' Origins