Posted by: Doofus
Date posted: Jul 24 2004
User Rating: 5 out of 5.0 | Number of views: 8323
Number of comments: 10 |
Description: Simpler than you might think |
So you want a movie to play, right before your Steam mod loads? Did you know that you can actually do it very simply with Steam?
Video File Info
First thing you'll need to get is an .avi (video) file. This is the only filetype that works, and it needs to be compressed with the Cinepak Codec, sorry DivX fans. I'm pretty sure pixel size doesn't matter, because it just plays the video fullscreen.
Steam + Video(s)
So now you want to put them in your mod. Make a new text document (.txt) and name it "StartupVids" inside this file you'll have a list, of all the video's you want to play at the startup of your mod. Place the "StartupVids.txt" inside your mods/media folder. An example of the contents of the StartupVids.txt would be this:
| | | media/mycompany.avi
media/modintro.avi |
That's all that is required, now load up your mod (making sure the video files are in the "media" folder of your mod) and watch as the play fullscreen as your mod starts up. |
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User Comments
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Has anybody gotten this to work? I can't seem to get it right for some reason. It just goes directly into Steam, no vid playing. |
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Apparently there must be something in the liblist.gam or somewhere I haven't checked that you need to do in addition to the steps above. Sorry for not doing more extensive testing, I'll see if I can figure out what's needed and post back asap. |
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I looked around in the liblist.gam file for something that might trigger it, didn't find anything. I figured it was only on single player games so I just (for gags n giggles) set it for single player only, still nothing. So thats not what it is, it must be something else. |
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for me it works
where did u put the txt file in? |
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Sounds like someone else got it to work, so possibly your video file, or your text file are out of place, or not named right? |
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what version of cenipack do u run
i think the old 4.x use to be the only version that worked with in won, for the logo.avi
amkern |
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anyone know a good place to get avi movies made. Im wanting a nice one made. |
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This is an example of my startupvids.txt in mod\medie:
"media\beta4.avi"
Notice the " symbols.
The video does NOT play it's resolution in full screen. The video is either stretched or shrinked depending on the resolution you run Steam in.
So if you're running Steam in 1280x1024, a 640x480 video is gonna look very bad.
The video also has to be in the mod\media folder, but I think that was already mentioned in the tutorial. |
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Does this only work for Half-Life 2? |
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No, I originally discovered how to do it with Condition Zero (I believe) which is a HL1 mod. I'm almost positive this will work for HL1 mods. (Infact, it's been so long, but I think I made this tutorial for HL1 mods... ?) |
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