ability to play .AVI/video files?

[DarkParadox]

i often find myself, when remaking a real game, cutscenes are often found as a video file, i really want to put them in but game editor won't allow it, i would like this as a feature, unless somebody can come up with a better way...

[feral]

GE CAN PLAY MOVIE FILES

normal AVI's are simply a series of BMP files...

grab any utility that converts AVI to BMP and convert your video out to a series of BMP files.

then load them into GE as an animation... and... BINGO ! the same thing

you can also adjust the size of the playback screen by playing your animation off the screen, then use an onscreen canvas ( as large as you want)

then in the canvas draw event use drawfrom ( and drawfrom the actor with the animation) then scale up or down..

provided the "movie" canvas is the only thing playing at the time ( as in a cutscene) then it plays fine even scaled at 10 times the size

i just tried it myself.. works well..

warning: big movies will make your exe very large.. i sugggest shrinking the "size" of the movie image size ( the screen size) and using drawfrom to scale it back up live during runtime.

eg if your movie is 800 by 600 pixels, resize all the bitmaps using a batch convertor ( or resize the movie in a movie editor before exporting to BMPs).. if you resize to 1/2 size, or 1/4 size, you usually get best results ( ie: resize evenly), then simply use the drawfrom to resize back up to fill the screen... you will lose resolution , but it will make your final game exe much smaller

note.. not an advertisement, but I should post the application I used... seeing how its demo file is the one i used in in my demo... but you can download any number of these.... there is many - google for avi2bmp

this is simply the first one I found..
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia ... 2Bmp.shtml

and it is good for small movies, as it converts the movie to what is basically a single "sprite sheet".. but for larger movies you will want to convert it to a series of separate BMP files

movies.zip

demo movie

(103.49 KiB) Downloaded 224 times

in my demo the original movie is the small one on the right

[feral]

PS: should this demo be left in feature requests or should I move it to demo section ?

EDIT: I did a full tutorial and placed it here
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6060

[feral]

Sound ??

yes, before anyone asks... I am planning on doing a full tutorial on how to create videos in GE, WITH sound.

and yes, the sound will be synchronized.. stay tuned

[summer_goth]

Wow, impressive feral. I'll definitely stay tuned.

[feral]

Wow, impressive feral. I'll definitely stay tuned.

already done.. i posted the link to the full tutorial a few posts up, but you may have missed it.

check viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6060

[summer_goth]

Ah thanks. That'll teach me to read things properly.

Great work.

[feral]

Ah thanks. That'll teach me to read things properly.

Great work.

actually...err sorry.. that wasn't the full tutorial, just the page I was planning posting it on, after I gave the examples..I just checked it gain.. and...um... I thought I did post it.., but apparently it didn't stick.. probably something i did...

I will post it all again as soon as I get a chance to write it all...again.. sorry..

but it should be easy to work out as it is.. but i will post the tut again soon..my bad..

[feral]

tutorial has now been reposted at the above link..

[Bee-Ant]

Why dont you just make the cutscene yourself anyway???
you're a good spriter right?

[Spidy]

Why dont you just make the cutscene yourself anyway???
you're a good spriter right?

yeah he is right

[corr]

mmm... As for me I resize video with Vidcrop PRO