Aha, interesting, I'll be sure to check that out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Harris" <[email protected]> To: "'Discussion of Half-Life Programming'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:28 AM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Ingame Movie Playback
> Vgui_screens are what the name is off entities that will draw VGUI panels > in > world space. > > Vguiscreens.cpp have info > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonas > 'Sortie' > Termansen > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:46 PM > To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Ingame Movie Playback > > Such a vgui element is already defined in vgui_video.cpp, so that'd be > really easy. Any idea how to render the vgui element in the world space, > while still respecting the z-buffer? > > Actually, there are some code for that in vgui_video.cpp that draws the > bink > > video as a mesh that covers the screen, but moving that into world space > exactly where the TV would be, sounds quite tricky. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Harris" <[email protected]> > To: "'Discussion of Half-Life Programming'" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 7:37 PM > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Ingame Movie Playback > > >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
