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Here is the FIRST release of the imaginatively named DBProAVI.dll.

Summary of what you get (so far):

New Commands:

EXTRACT AVI FRAME "Avi Filename",frame number
(Will extract a single frame from an AVI file of your choice and save it as a BMP).

MAKE AVI "New AVI filename",Frame Rate, Width, Height
(Will create a new AVI file)

ADD IMAGE TO AVI image number
(Will add an image to your AVI animation)

CLOSE AVI *no params*
(Closes your AVI file).

Please take into account that this is a VERY early release and as such has a few bugs, but it IS useable in it's current state.

Just copy the .dll into the plugins-user folder, and copy the .ini into your keywords folder.

At present, the dll makes use of some memblock functions from the DB-Pro exe, so you need to make sure the memblock dll gets linked in (in other words, you need to make sure you make a memblock or something early on in your program).

Here's a little example code for you to play with:


+ Code Snippet

sync on
sync rate 60

make memblock 1,10
delete memblock 1

make avi "myavi.avi",25,320,200

count#=0.0

for t=1 to 100
   box 1,1,100,100,rgb(200-(t*2),0,0),rgb(0,0,0),rgb(t*2,0,0),rgb(0,0,0)
   text (sin(count#)*20)+30,(sin(count#/3.0)*30)+50,"Conrad"
   count#=count#+2.0
   get image 1,1,1,100,100,1
   sync
   add image to avi 1
next t
for t=1 to 100
   box 1,1,100,100,rgb(0,0,0),rgb(0,0,0),rgb(200-(t*2),0,0),rgb(t*2,0,0)
   text (sin(count#)*20)+30,(sin(count#/3.0)*30)+50,"Conrad"
   count#=count#+2.0
   get image 1,1,1,100,100,1
   sync
   add image to avi 1
next t
for t=1 to 100
   box 1,1,100,100,rgb(0,0,0),rgb(t*2,0,0),rgb(0,0,0),rgb(200-(t*2),0,0)
   text (sin(count#)*20)+30,(sin(count#/3.0)*30)+50,"Conrad"
   count#=count#+2.0
   get image 1,1,1,100,100,1
   sync
   add image to avi 1
next t
for t=1 to 100
   box 1,1,100,100,rgb(t*2,0,0),rgb(200-(t*2),0,0),rgb(0,0,0),rgb(0,0,0)
   text (sin(count#)*20)+30,(sin(count#/3.0)*30)+50,"Conrad"
   count#=count#+2.0
   get image 1,1,1,100,100,1
   sync
   add image to avi 1
next t
close avi

WARNING: No codec compress yet, so outputs are LARGE (but non-lossy, so good for proper video work!).

Let me know of bugs.

Enjoy!

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excellent - gonna put this as a mailback - cant wait to see how it comes along...

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Cool, I've always wanted this kind of .avi functionality. I'll keep an eye on this for sure!

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Sounds fabulous! Keep at it

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Great stuff man, this will be amazingly useful for alot of people.

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You are my hero!

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Ok, is this post dead, I really want to see this dll finished.

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Nice, CJB! But you might want to make it more like "open to write". So instead of this: + Code Snippet

make avi "myAvi.avi",50,50

   add image to avi 1

close avi

You could do this: + Code Snippet

make avi "myAvi.avi",1,50,50

   add image to avi 1,1

close avi 1

The "1" everywhere is the avinumber, just like the filenumber, in "open to write". Just a idea.

Martin

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Your code seem quite interesting. While I don't need it right now, I see lots of use for it for later. I was wandering if you could help me. Do you know how to read the number of frame and the current frame of a loaded animation in DBP?

Keep on the good work!!!

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Oh please please finish this. This is just what i need for my game.

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your plugin seem really interesting

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if you finish this, you will be my hero

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awesome!

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I think CJB died

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please finish this plugin!!

its awesome!

oh ya:

we need an ADD SOUND TO AVI 1,1
command

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I misread the title and thought the plugin would include:

MAKE AVI PLUGIN

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i also think that there should be an INSERT BLANK FRAME TO AVI 1

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yea cjb is till here he's been posting in gc for a while

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Any news?
This plugin has a lot of potential. I am sure I am not the only one that could do with something like this.

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I agree with Scraggle. Where is CJB?

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CJB If u make this u are gonna let dark basic professional in a way make movies... Very nice ...
oh ya and good work!

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Well we could already do that with this plugin make the fps stick at 1 and then use get image every frame and add it then in the film it'd play back alot lot faster

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This is great! DOwnloading...

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*Bump*

Could you please alter the extract command to save directly to an image slot? Saving to a .bmp is a bit of a strange thing to do in my opinion.

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Sounds like a usefull little dll

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I've been peeping in on this thread from time to time. This seems like a
cool plugin, but not much has happened with it. Does anyone have even an
inkling to where CJB has gone off to? It would be nice to see this plugin
finished...

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CJB come back to us!!!

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This dll will make the life easier

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ITs been more than half a year wow where is CJB?