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Topic: how to make ingame trailers...
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]chAos[Gore Lord
 
Posts: 110 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 07 November 2001 23:04
anybody an idea how to make IG trailers as i want to make a small cineastic trailer for a mod,but cant recently figure it out  maybe me stupid,maybe me only wanna glizzaaaaaaaaas  ]chAos[Gore ------------------ No Brain...No Headache... FOUND IT.....so might get closed .... 
[This message has been edited by ]chAos[Gore (edited 08 November 2001).]

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masakari Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 549 From: Germany Registered: May 2001 |
posted 08 November 2001 14:57
Ingame-trailer. oh man. I think it a very hard work, if it's possible. Don't sure but i think You must set a flag for hold the game and a time-out-period which so long as the trailer in order to start the game at a right point. Not sure if you can set the flag in a dll, i think it must be done in the gamecode.If you mean to replace the ori-trailers: You must have a converter for the blizzard-video-file?? or is it a normal mpeg with a other ext. If no you must know the pics/sec the resolution and color depth and many more. It could be i'm completly wrong or i have forgott something, but in every case: really hard work good luck  cu Masakari

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 08 November 2001 15:21
You will have to use 'Smacker'(from memory, i think that's the name) and other tools from Rad Tools or something. Hmm...i cant really remember, i'll go look it up.------------------ «Lèts yÖÐèL!»

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 08 November 2001 15:27
Found it. I was right. Hehe remembered all of that from my Starcraft Days. Here is the smacker website: http://www.radgametools.com/smkmain.htm Hmm, now that i think about it, it might have been bink to D2. Yes. The more it think about it, it would make more sence it it was bink. But Starcraft was Smacker.They must have changed since then.Here: http://www.radgametools.com/default.htm That is the main page with all the links. After reading all of this stuff are you sure you still wanna make an In-game trailer?------------------ «Lèts yÖÐèL!»

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]chAos[Gore Lord
 
Posts: 110 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 08 November 2001 18:41
@DR SLUE THX !!! thats exactly what i need additional to other things i found  and...work ? nothing is handled without work going to try those things out then ,guys  thanx once more...really helpful !!! ]chAos[Gore ------------------ No Brain...No Headache...

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ZaN_Li WarLord
  
Posts: 170 From: Sweden Registered: Aug 2001 |
posted 09 November 2001 07:13
Well well well... In first time i thought you meant "IN GAME MOVIES" the one when you see you´re char go and kill some ****y enemy . But i haven´t figured out how to make a intro to your mod, i does´nt even know what format you should convert (i´ve tried it some times) from to *.bik . But the one that will figure it out or know could post it here. It would be fun with a intro (simple 1 ofcourse) or if you´re good better then BLIZZARD. Well if you have the right technics and tools so I couldnt covert my file intro.mpg to intro.bik just don´t know what to do... Well keep the good work up  ------------------ Diablo 2 - Unholy Wars will be avaible in 3-5 weeks. Diablo 2 - Unholy Wars

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 09 November 2001 23:56
]chAos[Gore: no problem. Just keep us posted on how it's going. I think it would be great if anyone could change it  Ahah! I just proved myself right. It's definately Bink. Well i'm saying that because i just found binkw32.dll which i suspect controls the order in which they run[?]. But i still don't know where the original files are. if they're in and mpq file, my guess is d2data or maybe d2sfx(i've never looked in here so i wouldn't have a clue).------------------ «Lèts yÖÐèL!»

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]chAos[Gore Lord
 
Posts: 110 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 10 November 2001 13:41
so,here what i planned to do,and recently am working on..going to make an intro-movie for a mod,and a trailer for the mod-hp to download. since suddenly my whole (!) computer fckd up,i am thrown back a bit,since i lost sum work.nevertheless, i hope a small movie will be out around december.dont expect toooooo much,as it is just a first try,but sum friends of mine are also helping,that the rendering wouldnt least til 2002  hope,i will be able to present it ASAP. any suggestions,questions,ideas,support ?  ]chAos[Gore ------------------ No Brain...No Headache...

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 10 November 2001 16:09
Well do you have any clue of how to use Bink? I for one have never tried and am just wondering how easy/hard it is.------------------ «Lèts yÖÐèL!»

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]chAos[Gore Lord
 
Posts: 110 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 10 November 2001 16:21
not proper yet...just read about what its doing,and realized,thats it,what i should need... the manual is goint to be studied by me,when it cames to the point  and if it is TOO hard,nevertheless...i will find a way to get the thing running,sumhow. but,if i didnt understood it wrong,it is not that hard,as most things in blink are properly explained on the HP. well....we´ll see  ]chAos[Gore ------------------ No Brain...No Headache...

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pyrAXE WarLord
  
Posts: 168 From: Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 12 November 2001 07:23
Just to let you know, all the movies (including the blizzard intro) are in the d2video.mpq. To replace one of these files, just render your movie in avi format, then start RAD Game tools and select your avi file, then click "bink it!". After "binking" you should then have a .bik file, which you can rename to "d2intro640x292" and stick it in your mod under "\Data\Local\Video\Eng\d2intro640x292.bik"Hope this helps! 

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]chAos[Gore Lord
 
Posts: 110 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 12 November 2001 10:41
sure ,anything helps  thx so far ]chAos[Gore ------------------ No Brain...No Headache...

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 13 November 2001 01:14
Where's D2video.mpq??? *Oh silly me, i forgot to look at the cd contents. */me slaps himself in the head* Hmm, that sound really good. Thanks.------------------ «I have a Banana and i'm not afraid to use it on you Mr.Silly Man.Then i will Zap you with my Silly rays of Utter Nonsence. MUAHAHAHAHA!» [I apologise if i have offended anyone named Mr.Silly Man]

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pyrAXE WarLord
  
Posts: 168 From: Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 14 November 2001 13:04
There is also D2Xvideo.mpq which comes with the expansion.------------------ People say a little work won't kill you, but I'd rather not take the risk.

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 14 November 2001 15:36
I know that. That's the one i found. I'm only modding for D2Exp. Stuff those people who cant afford to fork out a few extra dollars for excellence i say.------------------ «I have a Banana and i'm not afraid to use it on you Mr.Silly Man.Then i will Zap you with my Silly rays of Utter Nonsence. MUAHAHAHAHA!» [I apologise if i have offended anyone named Mr.Silly Man]

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pyrAXE WarLord
  
Posts: 168 From: Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 14 November 2001 23:30
There is also D2Xvideo.mpq for the expansion.------------------ People say a little work won't kill you, but I'd rather not take the risk.

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 14 November 2001 23:36
Umm…you’ve already said that….and I’ve already answered it too.
------------------ «I have a Banana and i'm not afraid to use it on you Mr.Silly Man.Then i will Zap you with my Silly rays of Utter Nonsence. MUAHAHAHAHA!» [I apologise if i have offended anyone named Mr.Silly Man]

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pyrAXE WarLord
  
Posts: 168 From: Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 15 November 2001 01:54
There is also D2Xvideo.mpq for the expansion videos.------------------ People say a little work won't kill you, but I'd rather not take the risk.

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54x Moderator
   
Posts: 3080 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 15 November 2001 02:08
He wants the last word! Jeez!Oh, damn, now he'll have to post again... oh well, let's just tag something to the top of the post... ------------------ 54x. "My computer has wheels on giant stilts that allow me to drive it over all the other, slower computers." "For great bandwidth!" http://www.planetdiablo.com/newdawn/ New Dawn Forum

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pyrAXE WarLord
  
Posts: 168 From: Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 15 November 2001 02:20
I don't want the last word! Wow!!! I didn't realize I posted that 3 times!!!  ------------------ People say a little work won't kill you, but I'd rather not take the risk. [This message has been edited by pyrAXE (edited 15 November 2001).] [This message has been edited by pyrAXE (edited 15 November 2001).]

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54x Moderator
   
Posts: 3080 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 15 November 2001 14:10
One more time should do it  ------------------ 54x. "My computer has wheels on giant stilts that allow me to drive it over all the other, slower computers." "For great bandwidth!" http://www.planetdiablo.com/newdawn/ New Dawn Forum

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 15 November 2001 15:54
It says his message has been edited twice...does this mean that he did post it again?? And Pyraxe, when did you join these forums? If it was just a few days ago...please stop spamming so much on every forum.------------------ «I have a Banana and i'm not afraid to use it on you Mr.Silly Man.Then i will Zap you with my Silly rays of Utter Nonsence. MUAHAHAHAHA!» [I apologise if i have offended anyone named Mr.Silly Man] [This message has been edited by Dr Slue (edited 15 November 2001).]

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 16 November 2001 16:42
**The following real life event will now be told in a story-like fasion**Well after a bit of messing around, i decided to change the word 'Blizzard' at the start up to Dr Slue. I completed all of my animation (after a little while) and added a honking sound when i converted it with Bink. So i went and shoved it in data/video/eng/d2intro640x292.bik. didn't work. so i then realised that that wasnt for the expansion, so i tryed d2xintro640x292.bik. Didnt work, so i tryed d2xintro640x146.bik. Didnt work. So then i looked in the d2xvideo.mpq file and found that it had to be called d2x_intro_640x292.bik didnt work. d2x_intro_640x146.bik?? Nope. I was getting annoyed. So i extracted the blizzard file and took a look. And what'dya know? Its the wrong file. lol. i was thinking it was the intro(bliz and bliznorth)...but it wasnt. It's the Act5 starting movie. Silly me. So then i got even more confused. Where could the bliz intros be? They weren't in d2xvideo.mpq. So then i started to think. Has it changed from D2 classic to xpac? No. So it must be running off the D2classic cd! But wait a sec...that's not in my drive...its in its case! Arrg! I started to get really confused since there's no file called d2video.mpq or d2intros.mpq or anything like that on my hard drive. So i thought i might as well have a look around. So i opened up binkw32.dll in w32dasm (w3|2dasm? IS this some kind of '1337' talk?) and looked at it in the hex mode (much like the new feature that you get when running d2 e.g the D2011116.txt type files) and i found no directories, so i guess it is just to show D2 how to run the bink files properly, so i tryed another, D2Launch.dll wow. 5 pages of little text things to look at. After a while i found it (second or third page) and it said data/local/video/bliznorth320x480.bik. hmm. interesting. so i tryed this out. didnt work. so then i started to wonder where the heck this thing was! I thought i might as well have a look in some mpqs. So i opened up D2Music.mpq(i dont know why), i went to data/local and lo and behold, i found a folder called video. i went into it. bliznorth320x480.bik bliznorth640x240.bik bliznorth640x480.bik new_bliz320x480.bik new_bliz640x240.bik new_bliz640x480.bik Bingo! I tryed it at 640x480 and it worked first time no probs! I hope this info helps you guys out since making new little movies for these is a lot easier than making a whole one for an act. I hope this appeals to a lot of people because i think it'd be really cool to see something other than Blizzard in mods. Remember, all the above files go into data/local/video. Good Luck guys! [This message has been edited by Dr Slue (edited 16 November 2001).]

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54x Moderator
   
Posts: 3080 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 17 November 2001 18:05
I'm just going to remind you all that you guys rock :> :> :>------------------ 54x. "My computer has wheels on giant stilts that allow me to drive it over all the other, slower computers." "For great bandwidth!" http://www.planetdiablo.com/newdawn/ New Dawn Forum

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Dr Slue Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 418 From: Australia Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 18 November 2001 04:46
 I have made two animations for my mod. The first, instead of saying Blizzard now says Dr Slue and the second now says the name of my mod [name undisclosed for reasons unknown to everyone including myself]. If anyone wants an animation done for them i can do it quite nicely with use of a nifty little program. Hmm, i really thing we need some sort of 'sticky' for this forum. This would make quite a good tutorial and there are quite a few good tutes for all of the other forums. **Admins** Could you look into doing that? It would save quite a few reposts and aggrevation. And it would be cool

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