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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Game Cover v1.0

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Wehtam_
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Posted: 19th Apr 2006 20:07 Edited at: 19th Apr 2006 22:53
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Game Cover is an application which allows you to include intro movies, title screens and developer logo screens with your FPS Creator Games.

You can secify your own mpeg movie intro, and include your own company/community logo.

It's a really simple program which has the potential to give your games or demos a nice meaty introduction sequence.

It's free for use with your commercial and non commercial projects

PLEASE READ THE README, it contains a guide on using the software, along with information on setting it up and getting the best results.

I hope you find it useful, let me know if you have problems

Download: http://www.wehtam.co.uk/html/fpsmedia.html

Please Note:

The Readme.txt talks of a "Game" folder within the "Game Cover" folder. It appears this folder is not appearing when zipped, so when you extract the "Game Cover" folder to your hard drive, please make a new empty folder inside it called "Game". Cheers gps

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Sounds interesting, perhaps i'll download it some time, watch this space for a review.

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Can you release the source code. Was it done in dark basic or dark basic pro?

Very good program by the way.
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Nice work

Just one tiny point, when you extract the files there's no 'Game' folder - I'm guessing you can't zip an empty folder?

BTW, it works with FPSPack-ed games too.

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This is sweet!Thanks.

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I downloaded it, extrcted it, and tried to run it, but after the intro thing, it said "No data.exe file found!" and didn't work.

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@ GPS

I never knew that, cheers for the heads up. i'll modify my post to say that.

@ Black terror

Read the readme.txt file , the "no data.exe" text is all part of the program.

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Quote: "The Readme.txt talks of a "Game" folder within the "Game Cover" folder. It appears this folder is not appearing when zipped, so when you extract the "Game Cover" folder to your hard drive, please make a new empty folder inside it called "Game". Cheers gps"


Strange that, I did get a "Game" folder when extracted. Looks like a very handy tool, thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Rich.
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Yeah, sorry. Didn't see that because I had to go.

Nice.

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Gamemaker alex... suddently the world of python went away.
Thinks a moment... *well somepeople use python*

but, yeah, it has a db tag in it...

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yeah, thats how i found out it was made in db. tags never go away
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Your game cover is what we have been waiting for..No more using the storyzone for company intros.



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Thanks dude, thats one real nice program, even though i think it will take a while before i use it (because of the EXAM)

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realy cool program good job! but i am haveing a problem see when i click the .exe and click run, the program opens and is says no files found click to contiue then says nofiles found click to exit. it dousent show what you said it was supposed to in the
"read me".

~thnx~

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Make sure you have extracted all the files/folders from within the zip file and preserved their file structure.

Open the zip and drag the "Game Cover" folder to ( for example ) C:\Program Files\. Make sure that within the "Game Cover" folder, there is another folder called "Media", which contains 2 JPG's, 1 MP3, 1 MPG and a BMP. If all of these are correctrly placed the program should work fine.

Let me know if your still having trouble

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How do you make an mpeg movie?

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no point in buyin it i can do it myself...

WOW! FREE MEDIA?

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1 word.......Mint

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How to Make an Mpeg Movie

A Wehtam Guide





One way of looking at mpeg is by saying, mpeg is to movie files what jpeg is to picture files. It's a compression standard which reduces the file size of your movie for use in multimedia projects.

The quality does suffer when compressing in mpeg, but the distortion isn't as bad as many.

Your first step is to create your AVI file, a common recording/source format. This will later be converted to mpeg for use in Game Cover.

Ask yourself what you want your intro movie to be. If you want it to be some grainy, black and white horror footage, a camera/camcorder will do just fine. Any "Real" footage should be obtained via camera/camcorder/webcam. If you fancy a bit of Digital 3D ( like the example movie ) you will need a 3d modelling program that outputs animation to video ( the majority do this ), your only enemy here is the price! But there are plenty of cheap alternatives that can animate just text.
You can also compile a movie from still images and narration text, this is the most straightforward option. With all of these techniques in mind you still need one other item, a video editing program.

Your video editing program will cut/crop/convert you movie to the final mpeg version ( hopefully ). Even Windows Movie Maker ( for XP owners ) can cut and edit video, along with adding a few transitions. You need to export your movie as an mpeg, or export as an AVI and then convert to mpeg later.

640 x 480 is plenty big enough for most movies. Game Cover will stretch the movie to fill the screen.

Here are links to animation programs, I have not tried all of these so do not presume they are good:


TrueSpace 3.2 ( Free )

Not 100% sure if this exports to movie, but it's a great resource in your 3d arsenal, did I mention it's free ?

http://www.download.com/TrueSpace/3000-6677_4-10298420.html?tag=lst-0-2


Xare 3D 6.0

Animate text in glorious 3d... for a price

http://www.download.com/Xara3D/3000-2186_4-10368026.html?tag=lst-0-1


Here are links to Movie editing programs, I have not tried all of these so do not presume they are good:


Windows Movie Maker !

Doesn't export to mpeg but it can do a lot with video.


Edit Studio

Won't set you back as much as the big boys, and it's mind numbingly powerful. A program for LIFE!

http://www.puremotion.com/buy/editstudio.htm

And finally, for those that can only export to AVI, you will need an mpeg converter. I could only find 1 free avi 2 mpeg program, i haven't tried it but apparently it does the job:


Advanced Video Converter 3

It's free, and does the job ( apparently ) give it a whirl! Let us know if it works.

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Video_and_Animation_Tools/Advanced_Video_Converter.html

I wish you the best of luck in your movie making career

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This is Realy cool sexy like me

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You love yourself way too much Lizblizz. Get a life.

Tom

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I have one you go grow up you lil s#it

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Lizz,
Why is it every time I see a post you are swearing?Changing a letter to a symbol isn't going to cut it.It's still swearing and personal attacks like the one I see above are unnecessary.
Not to mention that this has nothing to do with Game Cover.
If you are in your thirties it is time for you to act like it.
This is not the first thread I have seen you throw insults in and the people that post these threads would probably appreciate it if you didn't act that way in their threads.This is nothing personal.If you want to call me names,feel free.It doesn't bother me a bit.Just please use that little e-mail button below my post.
Tom has one too.Then you can flame someone without ruining a good thread.

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The game cover is cool good job whetman_ so umm how do i import like my own video instead of that one? can you show me i read the read me but kinda didnt understand

My real name is Elizabeth

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Quote: "My real name is Elizabeth"

Really? i don't care. Because your forever ruining this forum. Please leave. Now read this several hundred times [!!LEAVE!!]
Once you've done that leave and take your stinking attitude with you, or how is it in chav/wigga "l3av3 n tak ur atidu3 wit u n g3t the f### 0ut of da forim"
Arse hole.

(I appoligise for the swearing and messing up this thread.)

Great program by the way. I'm looking forward to using it.

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And the poor guy's name is Wetham.And for God's sake princess is spelled with another s.I don't care if you leave or not,Liz,but please kill off the attitude.You keep doing this crap in other people's threads.Start your own thread and do that.Or,like I have said several times,e-mail people if you are not happy with them.
I don't know if you are purposefully trying to make forum members mad but you seem to be doing so.
Let's all try to get along and make this a better community for everybody.

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I didnt make that logo i know how to spell jessus crist whats wrong with you! im not gonna change my additude cause you started it and im not gonna end it tell YOU apologize and Princes has another s DUH! and K jah go pick on some else then me!

Whetham im very sorry i been posting this but some people are extreamly rude and dont respect others.

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Liz... I officially condemn K Jah to your eternal flaming...
That was completely uncalled for K Jah, flaming a flamer will not stop flames. If you seriously want to flame liz biz start up a flame liz thread, but don't interrupt intelligent conversation for the PLEASURE of attacking a fellow forum member.

Don't you dare scroll down to that post box, or click that back button... I am not finished reprimanding you for this deplorable behavior. If I feel that an insult is great enough, I will make a display of it... and this insolent behavior needs to be addressed.

Telling her to leave just because you are unwilling to wait for her metamorphous to be complete is an intolerable action. Further more, showing a display of the very behavior that you seek to terminate is counter productive. That is interpreted as 'it's not okay to swear at others, just at people who are swearing' or 'just at you'.

Yes, Liz is wrong for a small line insulting tom who insulted her because she is having a... early mid life crisis, so now isTeh Sexay Chick. Yes, it is a little out of hand, but don't respond with a paragraph of hatred. Now apologise.


By the way, liz's sig doesn't say 'princess' it says 'princes'. This, my friends, is one eligible bachelor! You need to be of 'prince' material of course :p

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Hi Sexy Chick, in answer to your question:

Quote: "how do i import like my own video instead of that one?"


Inside the Game Cover "Media" folder you will find the title images and video which come with the software. To add your own custom titles/video, simply stick your video (mpeg) inside the media folder, delete the existing "Movie.mpg" and rename your new movie to "Movie.mpg".

As long as your custom media is named exactly the same, Game Cover should adopt it happily.

If you have any further questions, please direct them here to help others

...Oh yes, dont forget to pick up your free media Pack too, here is the thread >
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@ Wehtam - Thank you for this very interesting resource

During my experimenting, i've discovered a video problem that I think you should know about. I've done everything according to your instructions (i'm not using a video but the splash screens and music are working fine). When the game level starts, my video is ... umm... well see for yourself .



and...



some sections of my segment walls are simply not rendering at all, and the rest looks like some sort of hallucingenic nightmare

i'm running a p4 2ghz machine with a gig of ram and an ati 9800 pro card.

btw.. i've repeated the experiment with several working game levels and have similar results.

any ideas as to what's happening?

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Hmm this is very odd, so your levels play fine when started on their own ( clicking the game exe ), but when used with Game Cover, the game suffers these graphical errors ?

Check to make sure that the problem doesn't occure without Game Cover. Has anyone else experienced this issue ?

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hi, thanks for your prompt attention to this.

the game levels work perfectly on their own, it's only when they're used with game cover that these video glitches appear.

i'll continue to experiment...

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Thanks for making this, I can't wait to try it!
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Ok i will look into it deeper, but for now ( and you've probably done this already ) make sure you have the latest version of direct X and the latest Catalyst drivers for your 9800. I will look into possible causes for this soon

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If anybody wants an appology please use the e-mail button below and stop filling this thread with useless trash.

Wehtam - please keep up the good work.

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Quote: "If anybody wants an apology please use the e-mail button below and stop filling this thread with useless trash."

Then don't post trash in the first place. Besides, that was a reprimanding... you did a wrong, and it deserves to be seen. Merly emailing you will cause less of a response then telling you infront of an audiance.


@Wehtam & PocoRev: I assume that this is just an exe loader right?
Now, Poco, what is the level size? The error you have may be something that I refer to as the 'single sided texture' problem. This means that only one part of a texture is rendered in an attempt to save memory, strange thing is that it only pops up if your level demand is very large. [efficiency?]. Typically doubling the model fixes this error [meaning having 2 models at both sides] however, if the demand is large enough, textures sometimes don't even appear WITH the extra model part.

It is possible that Game Menu is drawing enough resources in the background to cause this error.

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@ Wehtam - hi, yep latest direct x and drivers. always make it a point to remain current.


@ OnePost - hi, and thanks for looking into this

your post got me thinking, so i made a new and very small level consisting of one rectangular room which is made up of 12 segment blocks (3 rows of 4).

inside this room, i place a player start marker, a single static light, and a shotgun

after the build, everything runs as it should.

the resulting photo is the result of attaching the level to 'game cover'



sure is an interesting situation we have here.

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Thats whetman great proudoct is it possibel to have gif. textures segments or gif. cover menu?

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Very interesting... you seem to be having a 'shading' issue? That is very familiar, and I think it had to do with shaders...

All the problems FPSC has is poping up on your computer with the use of game menu... and that, my friend, can be a problem.

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Humm... that pretty much confirms my hunch. Disappointing.

Ah well, I'll just continue to use my own modified menu screens.

There's so much that this little engine is capable of, I find it difficult to complain too much about it

Thanks for the help.

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PocoRev,

attached to this message is a stripped down version of game cover, it removes the mpeg movie function and is generaly tighter than the first version. just replace the exe attached with your old exe and see if it works.

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OnePost -
I see you are attempting to use your crappy school teacher psychology. Guess what I couldn't give a toss.

If I ever decide to care about your opinion you'll be the first to know.

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I appoligize if I have offended you.

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Wetham,
I liked the screens you just made.Are you planning on making more of them?

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@Wehtam

that did the job nicely !

this is a handy little option to have... thank you

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@ I has returned

Cheers, i might make a new pack of covers in the future, of course in the meantime members should feel free to make up their own covers (.jpg 1024x768), maybe even produce cover packs ? Now theres a thought

@ PocoRev

I'm really happy we got the problem sorted, and now i have a solution to this problem if it occures in the future

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hey Wehtam_ are you going to make a version 2 becouse i realy liked the first one and its something that you can realy run with and make it alot better i say that becouse you have a great idea realy. so i realy hope you do more with this program

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Hi Eureka, i do have a few ideas on a future release, you'll just have to wait and see

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Wetham,
Sorry it took so long to post this but thanks for the patch.

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