Topic: PLUGIN: Direct3D v1.0 (Sprite and Theora video rendering) [2012-02-08]

[Cassiebsg]

Okay, guess I'll have to confine to having to compile and upload two versions of the game, one with video and one without. 

Ps - I've now added some #define code, that Gurok suggested for this effect (creating 2 versions of the game)...

[Gurok]

Here are the instructions I sent Cassie:

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Make a new script file and put it at the top of your script list.
Put this in the header:

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#define VIDEO_VERSION     
Change your code to
     

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#ifdef VIDEO_VERSION
D3D_Video* video; // defined at the top of the script
#endif

function room_Load()
{
#ifdef VIDEO_VERSION
    // load the video code
#endif
#ifndef VIDEO_VERSION
    Display("Couldn't load the plugin");
#endif
Use #ifdef VIDEO_VERSION anywhere D3D_Video stuff is referenced.
When you want to make the non-video version, comment out the #define line.

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I'm posting this for future people who stumble across this thread, in the hope it helps others with the problem CW outlined above.

[Crimson Wizard]

In the past I wrote a feature which let you to configure stubs for plugin functions. I gave it out for testing, but no one seemed to be interested, and I later forgot about it myself thus it never ended up into the official version.

[Gurok]

Ah, I was just suggesting something like this to Cassie on IRC.
This would be great. Is the branch still around? The link to the branch didn't seem to work for me.

[Crimson Wizard]

It should be working, still in my repository. But the branch is very outdated and has to be rebased.
Branch name is "improve-scapimap", you could try fetching it in git.


Although, today I'd rather try some different approach which would do similar thing automatically, if compiler could add a note on imports that belong to plugins to let engine distinct these.

[Cassiebsg]

So, is that something I could use/implement or does it require more than what I can? 
Cause that sounds just like what I need. 

I can either offer my project for testing, or just make a snippet of it, for the purpose, if you like.

[Cassiebsg]

Okay, quick question/problem.

I decided to use the Credits Module by SSH to scroll the end credits, and all was going pretty good, until I finally was done rendering the movie and added it to the project...  Apparently it suffers from the same problem that CWs TypedText suffered. But no matter what I try, I just can't get the video running on the BG. 
Now this isn't that big a deal, since the video is mostly the ships just moving from the right to the left, so AGS can do that easy with a few sprites, but thought I would mentioned just in case you want/can fix this.

If you figure out what is causing this, or how to solve it, I'll be all ears. 

[AJA]

Are you using the correct render stage?

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video.renderStage = eD3D_StageBackground;
That should render it immediately after the game background finishes rendering and before anything else.

[Cassiebsg]

Erm... yes I had that... but now I'm unsure what happened, cause now it's working. 

Last time I had tried it was running the video, and then the credits after the video was finished. 

[eri0o]

AJA, are you still around? I would reaaaally like to take a look at your code to see what you needed to initialize of Directx in it and what you didn't because AGS had already done it for you.

[AJA]

Sure, here's the source code. Do whatever you want with it. 

[eri0o]

Oh, this is amazing, thank you 

[rmonic79]

Hi Guys anyone solved scaling and aspect ratio issues with 3.5 and also the crash on Fullscreen/windowed switch?

[nightmarer]

Thank you very much for this useful plugin

 

[nightmarer]

Hello everybody.

My videos does't load if I don't set the property video.isLooping to true.
But it is strange that if I enter a Display("") to pop-up a message pausing the game after calling the function, the video is Displayed while the action is paused.


   

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1.     videofile="Rosefall.ogv";    //here I set the videofile that must be load
2.     videoloop=false;       //this is a global bool to set as value in video.islooping
3.     playbackground (videofile); //this is the call to the global function
4.     Display("Playing"); //If I enter this I see the video running, but if not the video is not shown
5.     stopplay();  //this is how I call the function to set video as null, because it didn't work in the original function in the else statement
6.     videofile="Nebula2.ogv"; //setting another video
7.     videoloop=true; //this is the way to set that the loop works agaoin
8.     playbackground (videofile); //and this oe works fine

This is how I modified this functions.

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. function playbackground (String videofile) {
2.  if (Game.IsPluginLoaded("ags_d3d")) {
3.   // Required for autoplay
4.   D3D.SetLoopsPerSecond( GetGameSpeed() );
5.   // Open video file
6.   video = D3D.OpenVideo( videofile );
7.   if ( video ){
8.    // Use room coordinates
9.    video.relativeTo = eD3D_RelativeToRoom;
10.        
11.    // Anchor point to top left corner
12.    video.SetAnchor( -0.5, -0.5 );
13.        
14.    // Play!
15.    video.Autoplay();
16.    video.isLooping=videoloop;
17.   }
18.   else {
19.    Display( "Couldn't open video." );
20.    return;
21.   }
22.  }
23.  else{
24.   Display("Couldn't load ags_d3d plugin");
25.  }
26. }
27.  
28. function stopplay() {
29. video=null;
30. }

Do I need to do anything to let the video finish?
How can I load a video to be played just once without doing weird things?

Regards.