You can also create a vgui screen which will render vgui into the world space, was used sparingly in hl2. The bomb in CSS is using vgui screen for the timer on it.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:08 PM To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Ingame Movie Playback I did some research about Bink and found that their tools are freely available on their website. The SDK isn't publicly available, but every function I need is already in the Source SDK. vgui_video.cpp showed me exactly how the TF2 videos are drawn and it seems that it's very easy to get the bink videos ingame, since the video are already rendered onto a material, I just need to put that material onto a surface via code, and everything should work just fine. I'm not sure how the sound works though, gonna be a little tricky to get it working, but it is indeed possible. Thanks for your help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jorge Rodriguez" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Ingame Movie Playback > I've never done ingame video playback, so take this advice at face value. > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen > <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> - AVI files seem to be rather large, according to my experience > > > Compress them? If you're running 1080 movies then no wonder they are > large. > If you make them 640 or 320 then they will reduce in size significantly. > Your source video files will be likely uncompressed or lossless > compressed, > but the final cut you can export with lossy compression to reduce the > filesize to about 1/10th. I can't imagine your video is more than a couple > minutes long, it should get to over a couple dozen megs if you choose the > right compression options. > > - The tutorial doesn't mention how to get sound from an movie file playing >> while ingame > > > If you can't get the video to be an audio source as well, it would be easy > to try having the audio in a separate .wav or .mp3, and having an ingame > audio entity play the sound separate from the video, and hope the two > don't > get out of sync. > > TF2 uses bink to play videos on a vgui panel and that may be the easiest > option for you, but I don't think Valve has ever done this with an ingame > vgui panel, only a HUD one, so you may run into problems. Bink files get > ridiculously small and are effortless to make, with the only real > limitation > being the inablitity to change the video's position while it's playing > without restarting it. > > -- > Jorge "Vino" Rodriguez > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
