Scott, You can use a Procedural Material/Texture (PT) to accomplish what you seek. When you write the procedural material "generator", you can have it pull the pixels/frames from an AVI or other video source (webcam). We've done this with several types of cameras (but not AVI) and it works pretty well. You can use the PT in a level or between maps.
Here are the basic steps: 1- Create a procedural material (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Procedural_Materials) Do something simple like drawing a line on a black background. Make up some helper function like setRGB(x,y,r,g,b) that lets you set the pixels of the material easily. Play with it until you are sure you have the coordinate system and colors working as expected 2- Write or borrow some code that will allow you to grab frames from an AVI file, and also supporting grabbing pixels in each frame -- write a helper function like getRGB(x,y,&r,&g,&b) that will allow you to copy the pixels you want. You may have to do some sampling and filtering here if the AVI is not the same size as the Procedural Material. 3- In the procedural generator loop, use your helper methods to copy pixels from the AVI (getRGB) to the PT (setRGB) There are probably some more eligent ways to do this by rendering to a texture, hooking the DirectX device and using DirectShow, etc. Also, since you stated you only want to play *between* levels perhaps Source already has something to do this.. Good Luck, Steve On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Scott Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am making a mod that features video cut scenes that will play between > levels, I am having problems in implementing this however. Some suggestions > i've had are using AVIMaterials, and keep the player still watching the > video, also using a panel that plays a bik video file but i do not know how > to go about making a panel that play bik files. If anyone can help me please > don't hesitate to email me on [EMAIL PROTECTED], I would also welcome other > suggestions into how to accomplish this. > > Thanks, Scott > _________________________________________________________________ > Win a voice over part with Kung Fu Panda & Live Search and 100's of Kung > Fu Panda prizes to win with Live Search > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/107571439/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
