Using AVI\MPG\ with AGS for an Intro Movie [SOLVED]

[WreckCGI]

Hey there, you can tell by my number of posts that this is my first post 
I used Dark Basic a year and a half ago, working an adventure game strictly in script, but time and the job got me away from it.  Finding AGS I'm getting back into it, and have dozens of screens finished for the game I've been working on.   My question is probably very simple, and I did search the tech pages for an answer but only found one link referring to it:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=10086.0

I guess in my fiddling with it at 2am in the morning I couldn't find any option to run an AVI file as an intro movie.  I have the 2 minute intro completed ( I work with 3dmaxadobe) and I'm looking for a simple help to slap the video as the intro.  I did it in dark basic and for some god awful reason I can't remember how the heck I figured it out using the script that time ago.

Any help?

[DoorKnobHandle]

Look the "PlayMovie ( ... )" function up in the manual.

Welcome to the forums, by the way.

[WreckCGI]

Thanks a lot man. That'll take me in the right direction.

The banner in your signature . Your project?   If so, how's it coming? 

<-- Fate of Atlantis Fan

[DoorKnobHandle]

Thanks a lot man. That'll take me in the right direction.

Glad I could help.

The banner in your signature . Your project?   If so, how's it coming? 

I send you a PM about that matter.

[TerranRich]

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[WreckCGI]

The video is supposed to play before the first room appears, thus it needs to be played "before the game start"

this is what my script looks like after i put the test file in the game directory under 3 different formats trying to get it to work

PlayVideo ("test.wmv" 1, 1,);

Now logically there is no reason that won't work because that is all the manual tells you to do, but realistically, I'm guessing you need to place it somewhere specific or assign some other piece of script to it as well.  such as Function? // ? 

[Gilbert]

Everything scriptwise, except variable declarations, #defines, etc. and the like, must be placed in functions.

There's no way you can play a movie "before the first room starts", putting it in the game_start() function of the global script probably won't work since that function is for some basic initializations only.
Your best bet is to put it in "player enters screen for the first time / after fadein" of the starting room, but if you're using a room transition effect there'll be some spilt seconds with the room background appearing before the movie starts.
To avoid this, you need to make a blank room, with pure black background, and make this the starting room, just add the following lines into "player enters screen for the first time / after fadein":
PlayVideo(blah);
NewRoom(blah); //go to the REAL first room, need to be modified if you use V2.7+