Out of Pure interest

[Ding]

is it possible to play Video files in ofp like you would display a picture in a dialog or cutrsc?

[General Barron]

Yes and no. You can't play a video file, but you can rapidly change a picture in a dialog. So if you took a video file apart into its individual frames (say, 30 per second), then used a script to run thru each of those frames at the same rate, you should have something that looks just like the original video.

[bdfy85]

You can see an example of this in the chain of command tomahawk pack

[Ding]

i was thinking of that general barron , but i was concerened on the size of all the files if i put them in mymission folder, and writing the description for them would be crazy

You can see an example of this in the chain of command tomahawk pack  

do you mean as in loading a video file ?

[General Barron]

i was concerened on the size of all the files if i put them in mymission folder, and writing the description for them would be crazy

I would think the size would be the same as the equivalent video file, since you are just separating the pictures that make up the video.

The description would be easy to do. All you need is one picture box, then use the ctrlsettext command to change the picture path. If you named the pictures 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc, then you could just have a small looping script that would run thru each of the frames. I haven't seen the Tomahawk pack, but I would assume they did something similar to this.

This could not be done with cutrscs though, since those take a second to fade into view.

[bdfy85]

I would think the size would be the same as the equivalent video file

No Why do you think people are messing up with codecs etc ? Compressed video ( i.e. avi etc ) is much smaller then banch of images.

[Blanco]

The moviescript is easy :

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_i= 1
_number_of_pictures = 50
_delay = 1/25

#Loop
ctrlsettext [150, format ["movie\pic%1.jpg", _i]]
~_delay
_i = _i + 1
?_i < _number_of_pictures :goto "loop"

exit
In this example your pictures are named pic1, pic2,...up to pic50 and placed in a movie folder.
You only have to define one picture (pic1) in the description.ext and in this case the Idc number is 150
The movie runs on 25 fps, so with 50 pictures the movie won't be no longer than 2 seconds.  

[dmakatra]

This could not be done with cutrscs though, since those take a second to fade into view.

Not necessarily. Just define it fadein=0.

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