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External Cut Scenes in Torque

by Earle Lane · in Artist Corner · 07/28/2004 (9:05 am) · 4 replies

Hi Everyone:

My group is creating a "Stealth Learning" game that teaches about technology from a FPS/RPG.

I saw the question raised in another forum, "Can you run other apps inside TGE? If you mean run a task and return a result from an external app, yes."

Some members think that cut scenes are on their way out. Maybe so, but I want to use them to help tell my story. See my website for examples in the Story and Ships section at: http://www.stealthygames.com

Our group has also created a Blog to help with development at: http://digitalduel.com/blog/blog_all.php

I want to run some cutscenes (.avi or .mov) from inside of TGE. Is there a tutorial or forum comment about this somewhere?

Thanks,

Earle Lane
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Torque Owner Josh Albrecht
#1
07/28/2004 (11:26 am)
Http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=5420

Is that what you were looking for?

Associate Ron Yacketta
#2
07/28/2004 (11:51 am)
If I recall, the only support for video play back is under the windows platform. Someone updated the guiavibitmapctrl (might be off on the name) to get video playback working under windows. A discussion thread was started and Xvid was mentioned, but (as far as I am aware) nothing has been done with it.

-Ron

Torque Owner Earle Lane
#3
07/28/2004 (3:10 pm)
@Josh:

Thanks, that looks real good. I'll give it a try.

Earle Lane
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Tony Lamba
#4
07/29/2004 (9:33 am)
I often referred to a cut-scene as an in-game animation using the in-game models, etc. I guess I had it wrong. What then, do you call an in-game animation where models follow a path?