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ZaN_Li
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posted 18 November 2001 08:25     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Dr.Slue what filetype did you convert?? AVI then where did you pack it down??? in data\global\video\intro.bik ??

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posted 18 November 2001 09:34     Click Here to See the Profile for ]chAos[Gore   Click Here to Email ]chAos[Gore        Reply w/Quote   
agree to Dr.Slueīs idea of having sum general things fixed,and a tutorial might be useful aswell

Dr.Slue : also made already an intro for a mod,just packing the sound into it makes me a bit slow at time,cause i sumhow managed to kill my soundpacket :P

anyway...think you did a fab job in putting infos in here...thx

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posted 18 November 2001 16:18     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
ZaN_Li: I made an .avi file, then when i finished it, i opened up Rad Game Tools (Bink) and i selected the file and clicked on "Bink it". Then the options screen came up and i selected compression rate to 50% and it was nice and small.
Then all i did was select mix with sound (a .wav file i had made before hand) and i was done! Easy as 1, 2....ummm whats next?

**Edit** Oh yeah, ZaN_Li i forgot, here is the file path: data/local/video/xx.bik <-- Refer to my second last post on the first page of this topic. It says all six possible filenames that you might need.

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ZaN_Li
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posted 18 November 2001 23:36     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Ok Dr.Slue thx

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posted 19 November 2001 00:02     Click Here to See the Profile for 54x   Click Here to Email 54x        Reply w/Quote   Visit 54x's Homepage!
Just a point, the bink logo that appears at the end of playing .bik movies doesn't appear in Diablo II.

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posted 19 November 2001 01:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
I know. Why are you telling us that?
That is because Blizzard bought the rights to use it for their games and therefore they have a [.dll file? -binkw32.dll?] to let them run it without it. If the average user tries to run it in their game, the bink logo will show. So technically, we are probably doing something illegal since we have not payed for the rights, but technically we payed for Blizzards product which gave us the rights...blah, blah, blah, who cares.

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posted 19 November 2001 03:06     Click Here to See the Profile for pyrAXE   Click Here to Email pyrAXE        Reply w/Quote   
Actually, the bink logo is programed to display in the bink player only! It will never ever display in a game, ever! The bink dll file is just so games can use the bink videos. kind of like a directX3D dll which lets the games use direct 3D!

Bink is free by the way.

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posted 19 November 2001 03:29     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
Blizzard and other big games companies actually pay to use it on a commercial basis.
Look at the Blizzard trailers (WoW, W3 etc) and you will notice that even they have the bink logo, that is because Blizzard do not have to pay for those, but to use it in a commercial game however they do have to pay per game that uses it.

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posted 19 November 2001 04:41     Click Here to See the Profile for pyrAXE   Click Here to Email pyrAXE        Reply w/Quote   
Ooooooh... Ok..

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posted 19 November 2001 06:22     Click Here to See the Profile for 54x   Click Here to Email 54x        Reply w/Quote   Visit 54x's Homepage!
I know you do, but I'm not sure if everyone else did. Don't snap at me. I figured that was what it was.

Somebody who was working with me had NO idea that this was the case... thought I'd post it here in case anyone else had the same idea as he did...

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posted 19 November 2001 11:22     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Ok time to get annoyed.. I have maked my own little movie with correct info in the file. But when i add it to example new_bliz640x480
the blizzard logo doesīnt even show up!! I thought it was me and my movie but, i tried add their movie in data\local\video\ but i just failed.. What resolution should i go with???? i will try one more time.... then itīs over if it doesīnt work the computer will probably just "go to pieces" somehow...

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posted 19 November 2001 15:19     Click Here to See the Profile for 54x   Click Here to Email 54x        Reply w/Quote   Visit 54x's Homepage!
I had this problem too on my crappy little computer... I think D2 may be hiding some other resolutions for those videos somewhere, but I could be wrong...

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posted 19 November 2001 16:29     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
I wasn't trying to *snap* at you 54x. Sorry, i just thought most people would already know that.

And Zan_Li, could you explain your problem a bit better? What do you mean by "when i add it to example new_bliz640x480"? What do you mean by add? If you mean, rename to that then place in data/local/video and it still doesnt work, then i'm confused.
And i'm also a bit confused since i thought the whole point was to get rid of the Blizzard logo!?!?
I dont know if this will help, but depending on your computers power (graphics card etc) some wont show it at 640x480 even though *nearly* everyone (there are still some silly people out there) uses a resolution greater than this. For D2, it seems to be a bit weird, but if you explain your problem fully, i'm sure we can help.
Btw, remember these and try them all:
bliznorth320x480.bik
bliznorth640x240.bik
bliznorth640x480.bik
new_bliz320x480.bik
new_bliz640x240.bik
new_bliz640x480.bik

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posted 19 November 2001 23:47     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Ok here is the deal... When i make a movie. I have the same settings on the new movie thatīs for the old one (Blizz)logo. But it doesīnt start my logo the game just starts with the Blizz North logo. If i try to add the original logo... That will be new_bliz640x480.bik and then the same thing. No blizz logo appears i got so annoyed that i started searching the damn fileīs for clues but it didīnt do it, but i found that intro movies go on 640x240 or am i totally wrong???

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posted 20 November 2001 15:13     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Help!!! Read my last message someone im going mad with this problem!!

PS 54x did you fix that problem??

PS#2 Oh man BLIZZARD will probably be ******* at modders that remover there logo at the begining... Well i think if someone plays d2x in 4 years (like d1) itīs probably because of modders that keeps the game living with new items features and so on not blizzard someone that agrees?

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posted 20 November 2001 16:34     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
As i said before, the resolutions vary between different computers depending on your hardware and settings. For me, its 640x480 for you it just might be 640x240.

Run us through how you are making the file. You should be making an .avi file, then using bink to convert it to bink then you place it in data/local/video and rename it to the animation that you want to swap it with.
I don't see why the blizzard logo wouldn't be appearing at all unless the filetype is wrong and you just renamed it to .bik or something.

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posted 20 November 2001 23:21     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
i will have it a both resolutions here INTROS
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posted 21 November 2001 01:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
Wow. You edited a one line post four times. That's gotta be a record.

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posted 21 November 2001 04:26     Click Here to See the Profile for Myokai   Click Here to Email Myokai        Reply w/Quote   
I assume it was the link he edited.

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posted 21 November 2001 07:30     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Yep it was. The idea was that Dr.Slue should download the file from the intro links. Dr.Slue may you download it and try???? And see if itīs me or something else, it would be great if you did that for me

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posted 21 November 2001 15:51     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
I already downloaded it. I had a look at those files and may i say that they look very nice? Because they do. It's the sound, it really sets the scene. Did you make it? Or did you time the text accordingly?

Anyway, i dont have time to try to get it to run right now, i will do it this afternoon. Talk to ya then!

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posted 21 November 2001 17:16     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
Well that sound was from some manga movie(donīt ask me which one). Iīm going to make my own intro music in EJAY when i get it will buy it soon .Any way i had some bad time dealing with the intro. To have it match all sequences but i fixed it after a dinner and 30 min...... I canīt wait to hear if you where able to start it

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posted 22 November 2001 01:04     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
It worked perfectly for me. I cant understand what you're doing wrong.
Are you sure you're putting it in the right place? Are you putting it in global instead of local?
You have the name exactly right and the file obviously works because i just used it.
Once again, great job with the animation(btw, what did you use to make it?) and good luck getting it to work.

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posted 22 November 2001 06:30     Click Here to See the Profile for ZaN_Li        Reply w/Quote   Visit ZaN_Li's Homepage!
I used a program named Ulead Video Studio (i love it) download a trial from here ULEADENJOY (just a 30 days trial....) I donīt know if the path is search sensitive ex

data\local\VIDEOnew_bliz640x480.bik ??? Then may you please send the working file to me so i can check?

I think you will have to zip the patch_d2.mpq down and then mail it. my mail is zan_li86@hotmail.com But i think 1 meg is maximum....
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posted 22 November 2001 16:03     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
LOL! I was using Ulead Cool3D 3.0. We think along similar lines...

To do with the file, there is absolutely no point in me sending it to you. I just took the 640x480 one out of the zip file and ran it!

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