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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: T-Man on November 25, 2010, 04:47:08 am
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At the moment, you can have modified loading screens between missions (i origionally assumed it was just image changes but ASW showed it can be modified quite a bit). I wanted to ask quick whether it is possible at the moment (or could feasibly be possible if not) to have a switch (or preferably a fade) between two images during loading, swapping at about the half-way mark?
The main reason for asking is that campaigns, if i'm right, already have the ability theoretically to have the player shift characters/factions during missions (so he could be a Terran, then a Vasudan in the T-V war for example, using variables to set team loadout and the like), though its something i haven't seen in campaigns. This feature could be then used to have the emblem swap/fade from the GTA to the PVN symbol, to signify the swap and prevent the player getting confused by the swap. Would add a new dimension to storylines of wars like the U-war or T-V war.
Just another crazy idea from me really.
And yes this was gacked from CoD4. :lol:
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Nope, not possible in normal FSO. Might be possible in scripting (but I rather doubt it).
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youd need hooks at various stages of the loading process. hooks which dont seem to exist.
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Perhaps loading screen could be made an animation.
I don't know if it's possible (or possible to implement), but if a PNG-based .eff animation could be assigend as a loading screen, changing images and fade would be easy to make (though I also don't know how effective it'd be, since we don't want to spend ages waiting for a loading screen to load and hi-res PNG animations can grow quite large).
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While an eff might work there is no way to tell how long loading will actually take. It may be a few seconds or few minutes depending on the computer. So really no way to set a half way point change since they are based on time not actual progress.
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Well, it could play continously (cycling fade from one logo to other is also a nice effect).
Or be tied to a loading bar.
Perhaps both options could be introduced and cycled in FRED.
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Sorry for pointing out the (possibly) obvious, but why not just allow the loading bar to fill the entire screen and allow the loading bar sequence to be changed between missions like the loading screen background is currently...
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That'd also be a good idea, FRED-customizable loading bar would certaily be appreciated by FREDers and interface artists.