Is it possible to load up an .avi or .mpeg for a cutscene than rather using a movie texture? and if it is possible will it slow down game performance?
http://www.blendenzo.com/faqMovies.html
Use FMV. It might be a Windows only solution (not sure). Anyway, it runs smoothly. The game performance thing is really an issue related to movie size and quality.
FMV is buggy as hell. i wasted 2 days trying to hack it into submission.
if you need to make a real time presentation with videos I highly suggest using Crystalspace or Ogre.
CS has a nice export script for blender… and soon Ogre will be part of the game engine.
BTW,
here is the real FMV site without the banner ads…
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mein/blender/plugins/python/gameengine/fmv-ed/index.html
I’m not quite sure what you are meaning by that. Is my site offensive to you because it contains ads? I’m sorry if that is the case.
The link you posted is no more the “real FMV” site than mine is. You will notice that your link is to the personal website of Kent B. Mein, Jr.
As I indicate on my site, FMV was written by Keith Gearty (gorgan_almighty), and to the best of my knowledge he has no “official website” on which the FMV script is posted.
There is a really quick and easy way to set up a game with cutscenes by using batch files.
You can write batch files with python or under windows just renamed to .bat files and use the standard windows batch scripting.
With MPlayer which is a mediaplayer for linux but has binaries for more OS’es, you can give console arguments and loads movies easely with scripts. For instance create a batch files which loads the mplayer, playing a media file, then when it’s done it closes and loads the game which could be a .blend opening in blender or a runtime. You can even let it play cutscenes between certain levels, but then you have to save certain game properties to external files and load them if you are trying to pass over certain information from level to level, but that won’t be a hard job.
Try out Mplayer and batching files, it should work.
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The link you posted is no more the “real FMV” site than mine is. You will notice that your link is to the personal website of Kent B. Mein, Jr.
As I indicate on my site, FMV was written by Keith Gearty (gorgan_almighty), and to the best of my knowledge he has no “official website” on which the FMV script is posted.
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Why did you not post a link to his site in the first place?
BTW your site dose not offend me
Making money from other peoples work dose…
do you give any money from your banner ads to the original authors?
I think not, but I may be wrong…
you seem like a nice guy… I hope you are not scalping them for profit.
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This as also another option and much easier to use than fmv imho 