Video Files in SRB2?

[SMBX2011]

So, it will be possible to play video files in SRB2 for anybody making Mod for Cutscenes, Loading Screen, Level Complete, Continue Screen and something?

 

[achiiDev]

You can't

Doom engine doesn't support video files. But you can make your own cutscenes.

If you wanna make a custom Loading screen, Level Completion, Continue Screen and etc.
you might wanna learn how to make LUA.

 

[sluggard]

^ Yeah but you have to keep in mind this is no longer simply a Doom engine ;) So anything is possible with enough work.

 

[Rob]

Uhh, this is totally the doom engine. We modded the ever living shit out of it, but there are still some hard limitations to it.

 

[sluggard]

I Remember seeing something about exporting a set of frames from video clips and crafting a cutscene with ANIMDEF using thsoe and changing camera to face and look only at that Animation, It was a ZDoom thing, and it worked well for a TITLEMAP, As far as I can remember, it was used for the intro of a mod called Zion or something like that.

 

[achiiDev]

Yeah

But its kinda hard to make the music (or ripped the intro's sound) to follow the cutscene...

 

[MK.exe]

At the moment. No, there is no way to record videos in Vanilla srb2. But i know someone who has some sort of replay feature in his custom exe

 

[Prime 2.0]

Well I mean, there was that one time that CZ64 built in the Sonic Riders animated intro into SRB2Riders, but it added something close to a gigabyte to the filesize because there was no compression what-so-ever.

We're really not keen on going out of our way to build in a video codec into the game. If you really, deeply need to have a prerendered cutscene, you can just store all the frames as individual images and put them on-screen with Lua in sequence... but again, the filesize concerns will remain.

 

[SMBX2011]

MK.exe. I'm not talking about recording .AVI Videos in SRB2. I'm talking about putting Video Files in SRB2. T_T

 

[amperbee]

Well, that's not possible either.
You can make cutscenes and try to display image after image (probably?), but you can't play a video in the game.