Video splash screen?
by James Brad Barnette · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 06/22/2007 (2:01 pm) · 4 replies
I'm trying to setup a spash screen that would play when right after the GG logo and before the main menu.
I wan't to use a video for this. similar to what is in most commercialy availible games.
I have found a couple post that talk about a Theora codec that is already in TGEA. and I see it listed in the features on the Comparison page. Most of the threads I could find were for TGE and not TGEA. and none were really telling you how to accomplish anything just a look what I did.
I noticed that if I go into the GUI editor there is a GuiAVibitmapCtrl under new. what is this? is this the TGEA version of the Theora ctrl? would it possible to perhaps get someone to explain this.
Sorry to bug you guys but I have been searching for a couple hours now and have come up emptyhanded.
I wan't to use a video for this. similar to what is in most commercialy availible games.
I have found a couple post that talk about a Theora codec that is already in TGEA. and I see it listed in the features on the Comparison page. Most of the threads I could find were for TGE and not TGEA. and none were really telling you how to accomplish anything just a look what I did.
I noticed that if I go into the GUI editor there is a GuiAVibitmapCtrl under new. what is this? is this the TGEA version of the Theora ctrl? would it possible to perhaps get someone to explain this.
Sorry to bug you guys but I have been searching for a couple hours now and have come up emptyhanded.
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#2
06/26/2007 (4:07 pm)
As far as I know, Theora support isn't actually in the default TGEA. I wrote a resource ( here ) that puts it into TGEA (although when I wrote the resource it was still very much TSE instead). I do think it is mildly misleading to have it listed on the features page when it has to be added by following a resource.
#3
I called RadGameTools To see about getting Bink. but they want 6K per title so that is not an option. Where do these companies get off chargin that kinda money. That is nuts! I can buy 1 of every other tool I need for a game and then some for that price. Freakin' rediculas for a codec.
anyway The GuiAviBitmapCtrl when I add it doesn't seem to have allof the nessisary fields in the editor. I mena it doesn't have a field to point ti the video file or anything. I'm wondering if this is one of the many incomplete things in TGEA.
06/26/2007 (4:49 pm)
Do you know if this GuiAviBitmapCtrl works? or how? I cannot find documentation on it anywhere. I called RadGameTools To see about getting Bink. but they want 6K per title so that is not an option. Where do these companies get off chargin that kinda money. That is nuts! I can buy 1 of every other tool I need for a game and then some for that price. Freakin' rediculas for a codec.
anyway The GuiAviBitmapCtrl when I add it doesn't seem to have allof the nessisary fields in the editor. I mena it doesn't have a field to point ti the video file or anything. I'm wondering if this is one of the many incomplete things in TGEA.
#4
06/27/2007 (1:18 am)
GuiAviBitmapCtrl wasnt really "done" in TGE, nevermind TGEA. Use the Theora thingy instead. 
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