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TGB cutscenes?

by AzraelK · in Torque Game Builder · 10/18/2006 (11:25 am) · 6 replies

Im looking for a way to display cinematic cutscenes in a soon to be released TGB game, I tried to do cutscenes with the theora video plugin but apparently is not working properly and i dont have complete control over it.

Is there way to use SWF files over in TGB? or other kind of animation? I need those to present cutscenes.
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Employee David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
10/18/2006 (12:00 pm)
Do you have a source license for TGB and TGE? There is a flash resource (which I do not think supports sound) for TGE. Theora is really the way to go for video in Torque, though.

Torque Owner AzraelK
#2
10/18/2006 (1:12 pm)
Thanks, but I do have TGE but I dont have the source for TGB, so Im stucked there.

Employee David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
10/18/2006 (1:19 pm)
Ah yes. You would need to make some source changes to get the resource to work.

Torque Owner Joe Rossi
Indri Games
#4
10/18/2006 (2:20 pm)
Theora works fine for me in TGB, and I didn't edit any of that source...

SWF or SVG would be a great addition to TGB, even a proprietary vector format would be cool if it had a decent editor.

Torque Owner AzraelK
#5
10/18/2006 (2:23 pm)
Joe: Is it possible to check if the movie is over? I need more info about controlling the theora plugin, I did got it to play a video in a window, but thats about it.

Torque Owner Joe Rossi
Indri Games
#6
10/18/2006 (3:00 pm)
I'm not sure how you could do that..what I'd do instead, at least for now, would be to let the player click or press any key to continue on with the game after watching the video. Maybe just make a button that says "skip" while the video is playing and then "click here to continue..." afterwards. You might want to make it skippable also. I've heard that most people like to have that as an option, especially when it's their 100th time playing.