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Intro Video

by Norv Brooks · in Torque Game Engine · 01/03/2006 (8:29 am) · 7 replies

In implementing the Intro Video as initially presented in John Vanderbeck's 3/28/04 posting of "Video Playback in Torque" and the additional posting of Alessandro Louriero 10/4/05 "AVI Intro Problem: easy solution?" at launching the application of I got a momentary black screen and then proceeded to go to the Starter FPS main screen. The following is an excerpt from the Console Log:

Intro Video
Loading compiled script starter.fps/client/ui/movieplayer.cs.
starter.fps/client/ui/movieplayer.cs (0): Unknown command Play.
Object IntroGui(1338) IntroGui -> GuiAviBitmapCtrl -> GuiControl -> SimGroup -> SimSet -> SimObject

The code in MoviePlayer.cs that seems to be causing this error is:
IntroGui.play();

The application can't find the object IntroGui nor can I.

Anyone know why this is failing?

Thanks,
Norv
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Associate Ben Garney
#1
01/08/2006 (1:28 am)
Don't use the AVI control, use the new Theora control? The latter actually works across platforms, and is officially supported. :)

Torque Owner Norv Brooks
#2
01/08/2006 (3:44 pm)
Ben - thanks for the info on Theora. I'll try it asap.

Associate Ben Garney
#3
01/08/2006 (4:46 pm)
Lemme know how it goes! :)

Torque Owner Norv Brooks
#4
01/09/2006 (11:31 am)
Ben - a couple of questions - 1st, I'm working on a strategy game and I chose to use "starter.fps" to modify & build on. Which do you think would be best to use "tutorial.base" or "starter.fps" to end up with a strategy game?

2nd - I want to put a movie clip company logo at the very first. I built a "startupGui" with a guiTheoraCtrl. If this is a good way to go, how do I get the "startupGui" to come up ahead of the "mainMenuGui"?

Any tutorials on this?

Thanks for your help.
Norv

Associate Ben Garney
#5
01/09/2006 (11:48 am)
1 - whichever one is most effective. :) Tutorial.base has less existing stuff in it, but starter.fps is fuller featured. Hard to say.

2 - Sure, go for it. If you look at starter.fps it already does this with a startupgui, so I'd look there.

There are some resources & notes, try using our search to hunt it down!

Torque Owner Norv Brooks
#6
01/09/2006 (5:06 pm)
Ben - I got the logo video clip to come up first and then go to the mainMenuGui like I wanted. However, the problem I ran into was the video clip did not play all the way through. In the startupGui structure I set "done" to "0" and "stopOnSleep" to "1". It seems like I read in one of the forum thread where someone else had this problem but I can't find it. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Norv

Torque Owner Norv Brooks
#7
01/27/2006 (10:51 am)
If anyone has similar issue, I found that "waitTime" was set to "1000". When I increased the time to "10000" it solved the problem.