FMV
by Trevor Barnett · in General Discussion · 03/24/2001 (10:19 pm) · 7 replies
I know that tribes2 has FMV in it for intro videos and such, but will that be considered Tribes2 Specific Code and be stripped, leaving the developers to re-add it? Or will it remain?
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#2
03/25/2001 (8:13 am)
That's not hard to do.I wrote an OpenGL app that uses my video library to render an AVI onto a texture.It's not that difficult at all :)
#3
03/25/2001 (3:02 pm)
Yes! It'll be great once we all got our hands on the source. V12 looks fantastic but once the community gets it's hands on it I some expect wonderful additions! 
#5
Dont worry about that sorta thing, worry about your game :))
Phil.
03/26/2001 (1:12 pm)
FWIW, its pretty easy to do a FMV player using directshow (as was, its now in D3D in DX8 isnt it?).Dont worry about that sorta thing, worry about your game :))
Phil.
#6
03/26/2001 (4:44 pm)
Yeah the API is integrated, but I was hoping I could get by without editing the V12 too much, I don't wanna break anything.
#7
So what I'm getting at it: the stuff I've seen from individual mappers that is NOT meant to be 'balanced' for Tribes 2 is just INCREDIBLE. It looks real, man.
Oh, yeah, this brings up another question. Do we get the Tribes 2 terrain textures? I mean, I would assume not -- that would probably be 'intellectual property', right? This is good -- it means that the V12 will be able to step even further apart from Tribes 2, letting people see that, dammit, you can do way cooler stuff with the V12 than Tribes 2 . . .
But Tribes 2 still rocks. :)
03/28/2001 (10:41 pm)
Universal bump-mapping support is going to make the V12 look f00kin INCREDIBLE. Also, some of the Tribes 2 maps look a little cheesy because of the nearly vertical faces, warping the textures. Those supa-steep faces were put in primarily out of gameplay concerns -- if the hills are all slowly sloping, 'skiing' becomes very, very unbalancing. The sharply angled terrain makes it much harder to exploit this, while still allowing skilled players to use skiing to gain more speed.So what I'm getting at it: the stuff I've seen from individual mappers that is NOT meant to be 'balanced' for Tribes 2 is just INCREDIBLE. It looks real, man.
Oh, yeah, this brings up another question. Do we get the Tribes 2 terrain textures? I mean, I would assume not -- that would probably be 'intellectual property', right? This is good -- it means that the V12 will be able to step even further apart from Tribes 2, letting people see that, dammit, you can do way cooler stuff with the V12 than Tribes 2 . . .
But Tribes 2 still rocks. :)
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