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Or any kind of movie besides a texture on a wall written as a movie in the shader?

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I think you can play a RoQ, not sure how or how to make em

Tell me more JV. I am sure I can find a way to make them.

Also not sure how to make mohaa play em but .RoQ is what's used for the intro movies.

Hmmmmm might have to contact balr14 on this one.

How big is the file you wanna play? Ive seen in other games based on a similar engine small animations which used over 100 different frames, but im sad to say they used the animap function in shaders to get it done. If its not too large you may wanna consider this idea.

If you have something that can break down animations frame by frame and convert them to tga's it most likely will number them in sequence for you. After that just do alot of copy paste or something to create the shader. Time consuming i know but if it is vital i dont know of any other way.

Hope this helps.

I believe you can reference an avi or roq in a script, but I have no idea if it would work, or exactly how it would manifest itself. You can play a pretty long set of frames using shader animation.

well what you could try to do is convert the avi into a roq. i had a program like this a long time ago, ill looks around for it.

Balr14 wrote:I believe you can reference an avi or roq in a script, but I have no idea if it would work, or exactly how it would manifest itself. You can play a pretty long set of frames using shader animation.

That was my first idea to make a little movie with the camera facing a brush that was textured in a movie kinda texture.
But an avi or this roq thing sounds better so I thought I would ask about it first. Is there a way to test this, would someoen give it a try. To play one in a mp game. You wouldnt have to make one cos they are already in the game. I just have no idea how to script it in, I wouldnt know where to start.

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i knwo this is old but i just saw it while doing a search and u can play roq files by doing

local,player stufftext "cinematic intro.roq" for example. but ur map dissconnects:(

here is the link to the roq maker http://www.swift-tools.net/Quake/QVM/

In briefing 1 of spearhead they had this to play a roq

main:

level waittill prespawn

drawhud 0

level waittill spawn

thread briefingskip
thread freezeplayer

playmovie credits.roq

thread endbriefing

end

aa dont have playmovie:(.

in other games u cud play them thorugh urc menu thing.

but also ur going to need alot of pics:P

I am going to do it the old fasioned way and run a big animation. Is there a way to make the shader with out doing hours of copy pasteing? I might use 100 frames. I will have no trouble making the jpgs but the shader might be very hard.

yes it seems typeing cinematic 2015intro.roq into the console before starting a map works but in a map it stops the map and I think you have to use the esc key as well , too bad . I guess you waill have to use spearhead

I think the animated texture will do the job. Might need help with the shaDER.