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Offline mnftg64

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Will FS2 open play campaign movies?
on: September 25, 2003, 11:22:34 am
I know it doesn't play the opening movie for the game, but will it play the campaign movies from the original campaign?
 

Offline Terorist

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Reply #1 on: September 25, 2003, 11:32:39 am
FS2 Open can't play any MVE movies. That means the intro and all the rest (like the Bastion closing the node, ending and others) won't play.
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Offline mnftg64

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Reply #2 on: September 25, 2003, 11:37:15 am
is this going to be fixed?
 

Offline Flipside

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Reply #3 on: September 25, 2003, 11:42:35 am
No, volition have not given the scp the rights to use the MVE format stuff. It will only work on Vanilla Freespace 2.
However, on the up side, you can now play AVI files as your movies, making it a damn sight easier to create your own :)

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Reply #4 on: September 25, 2003, 11:45:52 am
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Originally posted by mnftg64
is this going to be fixed?


No, this won't and don't even ask for it.

Interplay owns the mve format and codec, and they guard it like a mother lion its "kittens" and we would get half-coccked in no time if we tried anything funny.

On the other hand an avi conversion is availible of most of the old files or you could look for a converter yourself, and make some DivX codec compressed files.

Actually that way you could have almost all of the present :V: releases on a single CD.
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Offline mnftg64

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Reply #5 on: September 25, 2003, 11:53:44 am
I'm still kinda new to this editing stuff, so bear with me.

If I were to create the old movies in a different format, how would I get FS2 Open to play them at the proper times during the main campaign and possibly others?
 

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Reply #6 on: September 25, 2003, 12:07:21 pm
the movies have been (or are going to be, I know they got FS1) recompressed into Divx
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Offline J3Vr6

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Reply #7 on: September 25, 2003, 12:59:52 pm
Where would we find them, if they've been done?
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Reply #8 on: September 25, 2003, 02:06:35 pm
Check the threads in Hard Ligt

"Who wants FS avi files" - I guess.

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Offline Kazan

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Reply #9 on: September 25, 2003, 02:15:09 pm
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Originally posted by mnftg64
I'm still kinda new to this editing stuff, so bear with me.

If I were to create the old movies in a different format, how would I get FS2 Open to play them at the proper times during the main campaign and possibly others?

we could easily make it so that everytime fs2 open sees "play('somemovie.mve');" it interprets it as "play('somemovie.avi');"

so when they're compressed into divx you'll just have to have the CD in the drive or them on your harddrive in your data dir
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Offline mnftg64

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Reply #10 on: September 25, 2003, 02:16:58 pm
is anyone working on that?
 

Offline Kazan

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Reply #11 on: September 25, 2003, 03:12:13 pm
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is anyone working on that?


nah but it would take a whole five minutes
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Reply #12 on: September 25, 2003, 04:03:40 pm
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we could easily make it so that everytime fs2 open sees "play('somemovie.mve');" it interprets it as "play('somemovie.avi');"

so when they're compressed into divx you'll just have to have the CD in the drive or them on your harddrive in your data dir


No need. I simply altered the campaign file when I converted the movies :D

The full details of how to use them are in the technical section of my FAQ. The movies themselves are hosted on Fractux's FTP server.
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Reply #13 on: September 25, 2003, 04:08:46 pm
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No need. I simply altered the campaign file when I converted the movies :D

The full details of how to use them are in the technical section of my FAQ. The movies themselves are hosted on Fractux's FTP server.


hehe you can do that too :D
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #14 on: September 25, 2003, 05:51:57 pm
Sounds like something to add to the media VP :D
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Offline mnftg64

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Reply #15 on: September 25, 2003, 09:15:51 pm
I would work on this, but I am still trying to teach myself how to texture map a ship, then glow map one. this kinda of stuff is still just a little beyond me yet.
 

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Reply #16 on: September 25, 2003, 09:46:28 pm
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Offline mnftg64

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Reply #17 on: September 25, 2003, 09:59:20 pm
The ANIs aren't up on the site in the link from kajormas faq. Anyone know where I can get them?

or

Anyone know what software can read mve and allow me to convert it to avi?
 

Offline karajorma

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Reply #18 on: September 26, 2003, 04:27:56 am
You can convert them the same way I did. The program from converting is illegal so I can't link to it here but running a google search for MVE2AVI should turn it up. (make sure you get the version that works with freespace!)

You'll need a LOT of free diskspace. The uncompressed avi file that is produced can be huge. The intro alone resulted in a 4 Gig avi file. You then compress that file using something like VirtualDub.

The site is still there but I believe the Server has been having some problems lately.
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Offline mnftg64

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Reply #19 on: September 26, 2003, 03:18:15 pm
The file is bad dangit, it seems everthing is against my completing this task. I am going to try to dl it from another computer tonight, but if someone could IM me or e-mail the file to me as an attachment that would be great too. My info is in my profile
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