ingame Movie concept (example movie)

I would like to have a couple of movies like below (or something simular) to replace of the normal opening movies in the game (like the "They Came" movie). These would show when you start the game or press the "movies" button in the main GUI.

Tarcoon, can you do something like the below with your full version of Fraps?

This movie shows a cool station explosion, thats common in our game.

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It's kinda crappy, because I had to change my graphic settings to get it even half way decent. Normally you don't see the meshes as the station explodes! Anyhow you'll get an idea what its like.
The full explosion takes around 30-40 secs.


I'll take it down within 24 hrs to save web space so grab it quick.



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I'll try to match your needs...

Hhm - it takes 1 minute 30 seconds for the whole station kill sequence from the initializing hit to the last flame dying.
Fraps produces a 262 MB AVI (800x600 incl.Audio/25 fps) - compressable to a 208 MB AVI/Audio or 204 MB AVI without Audio.
To bink it takes about 1 hour 45 minutes and you get a 56 MB videosequence/no audio

It looks good - but a 3 minute intro will need about 110 MB's in 800x600

I'll check some different compression codecs but I guess the only way will be to reduce resolution...
(or we'll make it like "Nolans" Intro?)

What do you think?

Edit:I killed one of those mushroom gunstars on the academy map, this job is done within 30 seconds... /edit


There is no safe distance

And when you compress with bik, how much do you get?

We don't need the whole explosion time (but it would be cool). I think the last 20 - 30 secs of the explosion would do it.



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Hi Major,

you get 56 MB's and your next post will be number 1000

Hi Tarcoon, Sorry, I over looked the 56 MB

So the last 30 secs of that would be roughly 20 MB?

We do need audio though.

Did you convert to .bik directly from the Fraps .avi or compress it first?

If we run it in the gui screen directly it will need to be 400x400 anyhow.

I don't think I can do a cutscene like "Nolan" in Multiplayer only mode [V]

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