Hellbringer616 thanks for that. I really need the HQ vids play tested(excluding the opening). I was in a rush to get these finished and didn't test all of them in place. Remember the HQ vids are from a standard DVD not bluray. I will probably still redo the whole set after the NA release of ACC from bluray. But before that I actually want to spend time playing FFVII.
Obesebear if you hear from clover let me know and we can get that new opening up, I used it a couple times and it is really amazing.
As of now I still haven't heard back from her, although she did accept my request to be her friend. I've been really busy today, but if you think animations are possible for the menu, that would make using the ending of her video quite easy. How exactly would you go about doing something like that though?
Alternatively I would like to have two separate screens. One highlighting new game and one highlighting continue so when you press up or down the screen changes accordingly.
That kind of programing is beyond me. However I used the vid in its entirety and even though it switches from one start menu to another it is still very impressive.
You're absolutely right! The video is amazing. Maybe something as simple as fading in the menu screen from her video would suffice for now. The time spent on her start menu is also quite excessive, so I'll probably cut that back some.
I'm going to mess around with both the video and menu screen tonight and see what I can't come up with. Any tips on converting the picture into .tex?
I'm thinking about that too. The main thing about menus is avoiding where the original text and finger should be. Visibility of these original elements should always be considered a must.
Edit : I got permission to use the ending I linked earlier, But I'll wait until after June 2nd to do any more editing.
I went ahead and sent her another message, so hopefully she'll respond to this one. If not then we could always just release it and later delete the download.
For the menu I think I'll just completely cut off her start screen right after the buster sword displays and quickly flashes white. Then the menu will display. If Apzfreak doesn't mind you using his sword, your high quality render will probably work quite nicely.
I figure give Clover 2 days to respond and then release it if I don't hear anything.
Well in attempting to create the video with the menu screen integrated I discovered a wonderful little file called sqlogo.avi in my movies folder. Â Eidoslogo can remain unchanged (or be turned into a .1 sec black screen) it's the sqlogo that the video needs to be renamed as.
Grimmy307, Â I saw a post earlier about the opening credits on the tan final fantasy background with the names scrolling in. Â It's apparently not a video, but textures. Â Once I'm happy with the video (or if you decide to do one) the newgame screen transition will have to be drawn out to allow the player ample time to press enter so everything can be seamless. Â Clover27 also sent a note out apologizing for not responding to her PMs and will respond to all of them by tomorrow. Â So hopefully a truly High Def intro is on the way. Â I'll delete the link if you decide to host this on your filefront site.
I downloaded the movies and disabled xvid codec in ffdshow. I have also installed the costum graphic drivers but when i start a new game, the game jumps to the end of fmv with a black screen, it seems it skip the video. Any solutions?
Just ran it and it's fine. Obesebear good Idea replacing the eidos with black and sq with the vid. It resolved an issue of fps in the first second of the eidos. If you don't get the hq vid from clover, I have the hq from youtube, I can easily crop it at the white flash. Best free video editing software on the net is virtualdub. We'll get a link up on the main post later today or tomorrow with 320x224 and 960x720.
The opening credits on the tan final fantasy background with the names scrolling is in the cr_us.lgp it's 6 different textures. I'm going to play around with changing it. done.
I will put up these two replacement files and the new start menu tomorrow as well as the above video, larger and trimmed down.
Well since all the credits are in the intro, you could make the names all transparent. Orrrr insert character portraits in place of the names to have them scroll in...
Edit: Wow that is going to be difficult, Each bmp has 2 names and titles that are all cut apart and enter the screen from different places, and the bmps are gray scale. I'm sure I can do it but the pics will be small and black and white.
Assuming they're regular .tex files, why would they have to be black and white? Are the tools really that bad?
I could make a tool that produces 32-bit, unpaletted .tex files from .pngs no problem.
Actually that may cause problems with the d3d driver, but unpaletted 16-bit should be okay
Well I am definitely a fan of that Cloud and Tifa background! I don't really know where the dollar bill fits in but it's still really good. I think during the beginning of the story 80% of first time players favor Aerith of Tifa... so maybe her picture instead?
Of course the Cloud and Sephiroth is great too.
If the names can only be done in grayscale and small, perhaps they can just be little scenes of different parts of the game / compilation. I'm completely unsure how that would look though.
I don't see the point in making the vids any larger than 640x480, the intro only rips at 480x360 and any sources found directly from DVD won't be any better quality than ?x480. Making them larger seems like it would only be making the file size larger with no improvement in quality?
Obesebear you right standard dvd size is 720x480. Blu-ray is something like1940x1080. Anyway the vid is good as stands, I would like to edit it so that it goes from the white flash after the buster sword straight to the soldier belt and then fades out, before the fan made part. still playing with adding those pics.
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first try
Second try
Okay got it now, but to get the pictures on screen and uncut they have to be in the spot of the last name. Some names are bigger and some are smaller, so their is no set size just whatever size the longest name was starting in the bottom right of the last name.. Talk about a limitation. oh, well I'll post some shots later.
If you need everyone's pic let me know. I've got the collection of them from that 10th Anniversary show.
I really like that idea of cutting it at the white flash, displaying the Soldier belt, then fade into the scrolling portraits, followed by the new game screen.
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