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Adding new videos ingame

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Category: Other
Level: Intermediate
Created: Sunday June 17, 2007 - 6:23
Updated: Sunday October 20, 2013 - 3:29
Views: 10939
Summary: Convert videos from or to VP6, and learn how to add them ingame.

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Open Data/INI/video.ini, where we added the block referring to your video earlier.

Editing hardcoded videos


This is where the videos are named to be later used in the code. While certain videos can be coded for use directly (such as Palantir Movies for Special Powers), others are just hardcoded to play at certain times, such as the
EALogo at the beginning.

To give you an idea, we'll replace the existing opening cinematic.

Find « Opening_Game_Cinematic » and replace the line that says « Filename = 242 » with « Filename = yourvideo ». For example, I have : « Filename = MyVideo».

              
Code

Video Opening_Game_Cinematic ; not changing the VideoName, so that the engine uses mine
Filename = MyVideo ; Opening Game Cinematic
Comment = "This is the Opening Game Cinematic"
End


Now, when you will open the game, it will play your video. Notice however that the audio is still that of the old video.

Open Data/INI/speech.ini, and replace the existing DialogEvent with yours.
Note that the DialogEvent needs to refer to the video filename, and not to the video's name in video.ini
If your video is called MyVideo.vp6, then your DialogEvent needs to be the following :

              
Code

DialogEvent MyVideo ; = Video Filename
Filename = MyCustomAudio.mp3 ; any silly name you can come up with
SubmixSlider = Movie
Volume = MOVIE_VOLUME
End


To find whether a video is hardcoded, or just coded, search the INI folder for the video.ini reference. If it's absent, chances are that it's hardcoded.


There are others examples scattered around the INI, but I leave it up to you to find them :-)

Links / Downloads

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Palantir Video Converter2283February 20, 2011 - 7:16
VP6 Tools Package2835June 17, 2007 - 14:25

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Shadowleak - Sunday August 12, 2012 - 9:06

i can't create the audio.dat...
i start SoundeXchange from the VP6 Tools Package and select my mp3-file as input
then i select the output...
then i click on Create
BUT nothing changes... perhaps the button is "dead"^^

can someone help me?
thanks :)

{AE}Manveru - Monday July 5, 2010 - 13:13

"as well as selecting the VP6 0 format when encoding to ensure that the alpha is supported"

Don't you mean VP6 1 for alpha? If I'm not mistaken (and correct me if I am), VP6 0 is the one that doesn't support alpha, that's why palantir videos use VP6 1.

DIGI_Byte (Team Chamber Member) - Monday June 1, 2009 - 12:04

Is it me or does the number 4 not exsist?

page 4 is missing

Nazgûl (Team Chamber Member) - Saturday July 21, 2007 - 14:46

AWESOME!!! Thank you! This has now made S.E.E. 10 times more appealing at start up =)

Sulherokhh (Team Chamber Member) - Tuesday June 19, 2007 - 9:31

That's the kind of tutorial i love. Thank you guys for sharing this with us!!

Bart (Administrator) - Monday June 18, 2007 - 11:27

pff, command line isn't hard at all...pussy :p

Rob38 (Team Chamber Member) - Sunday June 17, 2007 - 19:34

Great tutorial! I'm going to be making my own videos for my mod, so thanks for the information on it. I didn't think that it would be this complicated!

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