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Video Inside Gui

by David Byrge · in Torque Game Engine · 01/23/2007 (11:58 am) · 3 replies

I am trying to record (avi) a scene from one of my levels to play/loop inside the main menu gui. In my mind I have two options. I could convert the video to flash and have a flash movie displayed......or I could just have the avi file play/loop directly on the main menu gui. Are either of these possibilities or am I chasing my tail? I saw the resource for inserting flash but it seemed that you were required to manual call the file when torque loaded. Can anyone point me in the right direction for this please. Thank you. FYI - the clip is maybe 3-5 seconds long.

#1
01/23/2007 (12:07 pm)
Use Theora instead of AVI. It is a cross-platform solution built into TGE.
#2
01/23/2007 (12:18 pm)
Ok, I will use Theora but I still don't see how the video is played without calling up the console. When the user clicks on the .exe and my splash screen comes up....as soon as the main menu gui appears I want the video to be looping. I don't want to have to execute the function through the console.