[karajorma]

The movies aren't in the media.vp files although maybe we should consider making one for them. It would be pretty big though.

[jdjtcagle]

Yeess!!! and hey I'll even make it

[J3Vr6]

I didn't mean the actual movies, silly billy.  I have those already.  I meant the revised campaign file or something that tells FS2 to play the movies.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by J3Vr6
I didn't mean the actual movies, silly billy.  I have those already.  I meant the revised campaign file or something that tells FS2 to play the movies.

Apparently they're obsolete now. Taylor fixed it so that FS2_open ignored any .mve extension and instead looks for a file with the same name.

[J3Vr6]

So are we supposed to put the movies somewhere else then, other than the main directory?  Should I put them into the same folder I put my mediavp?

[taylor]

Originally posted by J3Vr6
So are we supposed to put the movies somewhere else then, other than the main directory?  Should I put them into the same folder I put my mediavp?

They can go in the base folder (same as the executable) or under /data somewhere (ie. /data/movies).  It will look for avi and then mpg movies.  If it doesn't load one you can just try copying any mpg or avi file to intro.mpg (or .avi) and see if it loads.  Also, I'm sure you already know this but movies don't play when running the game in a window (just making sure).  Also try OGL and D3D if you don't mind just in case there is some strange problem there.

[übermetroid]

Yea, the movies play just fine for me.  Intro and the mission ones.  I just watched the colls. one.

[J3Vr6]

I put this under the Kazan build but it applies here too:

"Oh, forgot to mention that I tried playing with OpenGL but the mainhall was really dark. When I tried to play a mission, it would begin to load but when it got to the last little light in the loading screen it would just completely freeze."

It wouldn't even let me control-alt-delete.



EDIT:  Forgot to mention that any other build (ie. the one from january) would let me play the movies.  I don't know why they're not playing anymore  I had them all in the main freespace directory.

[übermetroid]

Do you have a FS_open mod dir?  I ask because I made one and when I tested it out the movies did not play any more.  Maybe that is it.

[J3Vr6]

Ubermetroid:  I did two things yesterday:  I downloaded the latest mvcore pack and also copied all the movies to my mediavp mod folder.  I don't know if it was the updated vp file or putting them into the folder, but they're working again.

OpenGL still won't work for me, though.  The mainhall and game load fine, although really really dark.  When I go into a mission, it freezes at the last loading bar.  System specs:

Geforce 2 MMx 32 megs (As far as I know, this should still be able to run OpenGL, here are its specs)
AMD 2400, clocked at 2000 ghz
512 megs of memory
Windows 98SE
DirectX 9.something

[taylor]

Originally posted by ubermetroid
Do you have a FS_open mod dir?  I ask because I made one and when I tested it out the movies did not play any more.  Maybe that is it.

Dude, you're a genius.  That's the problem indeed.  The files aren't getting added to the CFILE cache properly and if they are outside of the physical search pattern then it can't find them.  If you are using "-mod" then putting the movies in the moddir root should make them work.

It took longer to pick my nose than to fix this problem but it's definitely something that slipped through.  I've got a new build coming out today to test the new Linux/Win32 stuff before code merge and it will have this fix.  Beyond that, just move the movies to the moddir root for now.

[J3Vr6]

What about the OpenGL issue?

[übermetroid]

J3Vr6 - Why not use D3D?

taylor - Sweet!  I did something good!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by taylor
Dude, you're a genius.  That's the problem indeed.  The files aren't getting added to the CFILE cache properly and if they are outside of the physical search pattern then it can't find them.  If you are using "-mod" then putting the movies in the moddir root should make them work.

You know. I really should have thought of that one myself

[J3Vr6]

Originally posted by ubermetroid
J3Vr6 - Why not use D3D?

I have been using D3D.  But I have a Geforce card and wanna see the game in OpenGL.

[übermetroid]

??  I would think it would look the same, right?

[marajin]

OpenGL can look better in some cases, it's hard to explain, but it can do. Also I think there can be a marginal performance boost on some cards...

[ShadowDrakken]

I run the game sometimes in D3D and other times in OGL with my GF4... both have their own quirky problems and both sets of problems are different... the main problem is that neither nVidia nor ATI correctly follow D3D or OGL, they both add their own flavor of shortcuts, which makes it tough on programmers

[J3Vr6]

in D3D, I just got into the mission in the nebula in the campaign..

Man that's bright!!!

[CP5670]

Use the -2d_poof command to correct that.