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Chasester_aka_you | 2010-02-18 23:26

VIDEO... FAIL

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so this weekend i was thining ... video would be great in cube 2... so i thought well how would this work ... and i figured it out...

if you take a video into Adobe flash... and render it on each keyframe, then cut it up so that each frame is a different picture ... and cut each frame picture in to a 8X8 pic square... then u could make a video ..

simply take the 8X8 pics and line them up in a row.. frame 1 - EndFrame... top to bottom... and then export as a jpg... then you could take all of these and useing the texscroll function u could line all the 8x8 squares in cube .. and then you would have a simple video...

EPIC fail.. when i learned that u can only output 4096px x 4096 pic images... well simple math would tell u that if you stack 8x8 pics on top of eachother ... u could only stack 512 of the... 512 "frames"... at 24 frames a second... is roughly 21 seconds of video... now u could make it only 12 frames per second ... but that would only alow u to double it to 42 second .. and it would look realy chopy... so ...

If you want to spend all of that time.. in theory you could make your a movie as big as u want for 42 second...

if you are wondering y dont you use a different size to make it less of a pain in the neck... the nex size up is 32 which would give you 1/4 the time ... so in fact .. at 32x32 px images you could do 10 seconds ... and higher would be 2 1/2 or higher 1/4 of a second ... in reality ... the process is to hard and would take about 6 - 7 hours to complete ... and if you make one mistake.... you have to start over..

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SheeEttin | 2010-02-19 00:23

Movie Map Shader Test Map
Muybridge Cut-Scene
Kinetics mapmodel package

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-02-19 03:17

according to the first link is should be able 2 ^2 my 512 frames which would 262144 frames ... at 30 frames a second allows me to make a 145 min video .. or .. 1 1/2 hours of film ... i could watch a full movie in saubratan ... wow ....

Windecker | 2010-02-19 17:16

With some slight modification of the source code, you can up the maximum texture size. I did it for myself. Ill check to see how I did it ( forgot ) and post it here.

EDIT:
Do a search for this line:

if(max(s->w, s->h) > (1<<12)) { SDL_FreeSurface(s); conoutf(CON_ERROR, "texture size exceeded %dx%d pixels: %s", 1<12, 1<12, file); return false; }

Change the 12 to a 13 for a maximum texture resolution of 8192, and 14 to double that and so on.

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-02-19 17:18

programes run intor problems when trying to post above about 5000 ... so it would be hard to creat such a big file.. if u divided into 8x8 squars it would be beter cuz u could make the picture as big as u want up to 148 mins... and if you did boost cubes ability ... u could make it almost unlimited... not to do such a think would be impractickal cuz the max a game last is 15 min... instaCFE.. and to boost the frame rate above 40 frames per second would cuz headachs or sezures ..
the point is how epic it would be to make a map that is a movie theater it is not very practical in game play ... tho having a theater ... would be a whole new way of piriating movies... imagine u join a server and u sit in a set and u watch a movie... online in cube.... epic.... but then again the file would be so large most ppl could not download it.. :(

in conlusion for the second time... its not practical to boast the video longer then it is at this point ...

Windecker | 2010-02-19 17:21

my comment got broken from the HTML tags and whatnot.
Over half of it is missing...

SheeEttin | 2010-02-19 19:40

Fixed that for you. You need to use < and > in place of < and >. (View the source of this comment if you want even more HTML character entity fun. :P)

In any case, just lifting the texture cap isn't particularly a good idea. Graphics cards only have so much memory and can (probably) only handle textures up to so large (though I'm no expert, they might break them into smaller textures).

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-02-21 14:03

due to the shaders ablity to scale ... u would not need this... although u do not want to scale it to big ... else ... it will look like crap....
if you realy want to make a large file ... biger than 4096 x 4096... u can look at moding cube to take the cap of the image max... its in the code some were in the c++ code :)

Chasester_aka_you | 2010-02-19 22:40

i wrote a review on how to do this here

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