Muybridge Cut-Scene | Quadropolis

MeatROme | 2008-11-18 09:24

Muybridge Cut-Scene

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Blurb proof of concept cut-scene approach

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The question of how to create a cut-scene within Sauerbraten has passed me by a couple of times ..
.. then, one rather boring train-ride brought me to a possible solution.
This is even a movie-esque installment - which plays it's 15-frame sequence 9 times before closing the gui by itself.
I'd like to caution you: avoid including all the frames of your 4 ½ minute 1600x1200 movie :-P

The text is created dynamically but could equally well be a set of texts displayed for less frequent updates of the image .. in a silent-movie (including sound would be possible too, but isn't part of this example) or maybe comic-strip style.

I look forward to finally seeing those singleplayer maps that people have been holding back .. ;-)

Map file muybridge.zip (143.23 KB)

URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif

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demonmoooseguy | 2008-11-18 12:14

Is this an application or a script or what?

viruz | 2008-11-18 20:05

i think he wants to show us a possiblitity to inclue "videos" in maps. could be very usefull in sp maps, for example small mision-briefings.

mfg

€ its a map, with scripts.

MeatROme | 2008-11-18 21:55

that's why it's in the map-category, the screenshot shows it uses the a gui-menu (so obviously CubeScript is involved in the CFG) and it's tagged as "SinglePlayer" (also the description mentions this) ... but thanks for answering the Q viruz :)

flame | 2008-11-27 23:54

Hey,
I havent seen you on quad before, meatrome. Make some more maps, please.

Flame

MeatROme | 2008-11-28 00:27

... but still sorry you didn't like my posting. If you want to see my first upload Chaos Cube Citadel is over 2 years old now .. look in-between for some maps, some scripting and some modding nodes by me .. oh and tons of comments about what other people could've done better, in my opinion .. which explains where a lot of my work goes before anyone sees it - the trashcan or maybe a backup-medium for amusement-value in 30 years.

DarkStar | 2008-11-25 18:55

Thanks for that, MeatROme! I've been trying to find to way of having cut-scenes in my SP project for a while. It's a really inventive solution.
If you're clever enough you may be able to trigger the audio when the first GUI opens. Though it'll probably be out of sync.

There are programs which can take a video and turn it into a .gif animation, and from there it shouldn't be too difficult to take each frame, so it may even be practical to use.

ogrobastard | 2008-11-29 23:31

this is like the PDA of DOOM 3
it's really cool!

5/5

Suicizer | 2009-05-30 22:32

wouldnt it be much cooler, if it could be included into multiplayer, as an animated texture (as example a moving cube 2 engine logo or sumthing)?

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-02-21 14:11

this is done....

how to do
aplication

this uses MeatRo's shader... thanx

Ludwig van | 2009-11-07 09:44

thx for that. I am looking forward to using it in SP. Windows users might use VirtualDub for converting avi into jpeg.

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-02-23 12:50

in reply to this post i would like to simply lay out how ez it would be... if i user owned flash to create a youtube movie using this function... download your fav utube movie.... as a flv file... them use the file>import>importvideo... drop down ... then click the second radio button .. embed into swf file... then browse and find the flv file... then click next... selct embeded video in the next tab ... then select sound or no sound... after that click next... then finish... it will take a second... then set the stage to the size u want... then set the embeded video to the stage... then File>Export>Export movie... then click jpg sequence in the drop down ... save this in the muybridge folder... or any other folder that u set it to .... then make the time longer.... in the code to fit the amout of frames u exported.... then u have your new video....

CD Xbow | 2011-09-17 06:46

Wow, brilliant work MeatROme. I don't know why i have never found this before. I have ported it over to RE and it literally worked 'out of the box'. If anyone is interested here is the RE port of the map/script. http:///teamxbow.org/cube/downloads/re_ani_gui.rar

You need to install this sauer version first because it uses the graphics.

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