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[EnnonFenom]

I was wondering if it is possible to make a quest that has actual video cuts scenes attached?

 

A lot of games use Rad video tool to make .BIK videos 

 

This is just something I have been thinking about.

I feel it would make for high detailed cut scenes while game play stays at the normal rendering and color limits

 

Thoughts?

 

source:

http://www.radgameto...com/bnkdown.htm

[Anthus]

This sounds cool and I remember asking about pre-rendered cuteness back in the 2.10 days when it was surely impossible.

I honestly still don't think it is possible but it would be cool. Only downside is you might get what I call the "FF7 effect" where gameplay and cutscenes look totally different.

[Architect Abdiel]

I also doubt it can be done.

Maybe if a script was made that allowed a certain file type to be uploaded to that screen and then put you back in that room. But I don't believe ZScript is to a point where you could do that tbh.

[Moosh]

Instead of just giving a boring wordy answer, I made a quest file demonstrating the capabilities of FMV cutscenes in ZC. 

 

http://www.mediafire...ceneExample.qst

 

Give it a try, poke around in the quest. What my answer would have been should become apparent. 

[Anthus]

That's... actually still really impressive.

[Timelord]

I don't so much as wish to ponder what would be required to allow video playback from MPEG1/2 format files in ZC. Sorry, don't want to think about it.

[Gleeok]

.blk seems to be a proprietary format?

[EnnonFenom]

.blk seems to be a proprietary format?

Yes I believe so. I first encountered the format in the game Gothic 2. I made a custom video cut scene. The rad video tool to convert .avi to .bik, or vise versa.

 

more info here:

 

http://www.radgametools.com/

 

 

I don't so much as wish to ponder what would be required to allow video playback from MPEG1/2 format files in ZC. Sorry, don't want to think about it.

lol, I figure its something ridiculous......

maybe convert a avi to bik and see the size difference. Because, I believe the bik format is butter compressed for gaming it has been around for quite some time.

 

check out their wiki

https://en.wikipedia...wiki/Bink_Video

 

This sounds cool and I remember asking about pre-rendered cuteness back in the 2.10 days when it was surely impossible.

I honestly still don't think it is possible but it would be cool. Only downside is you might get what I call the "FF7 effect" where gameplay and cutscenes look totally different.

Yeah, I am not a too big a fan of that idea, but it seems most plausible right now with a lil ingenuity....

 

Instead of just giving a boring wordy answer, I made a quest file demonstrating the capabilities of FMV cutscenes in ZC. 

 

http://www.mediafire...ceneExample.qst

 

Give it a try, poke around in the quest. What my answer would have been should become apparent. 

ok will do in a little bit. Edit:   ok, thats cool looking scene but, not much room for anything else with how much of the palate it takes up.

thats why I suggested bik videos. read the wiki. lower level encoding

 

I also doubt it can be done.

Maybe if a script was made that allowed a certain file type to be uploaded to that screen and then put you back in that room. But I don't believe ZScript is to a point where you could do that tbh.

I like to look at it optimistically, my self. But maybe an secondary launcher, sort of like zc, zq launcher but for cut scenes.

Edited by EnnonFenom, 24 March 2018 - 02:53 PM.