lukeskywalker1 Posted July 9, 2003 Posted July 9, 2003 How can i put that star wars movie text in the beginning of my cutscene? Its at the biggining of JKII... so how can i make my own? thanks -lukeskywalker1
tFighterPilot Posted July 9, 2003 Posted July 9, 2003 The text in the beginning is a movie, so you can't change it, unless you would make a movie of your own to replace it. You can change the A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I changed it in my mod. It's in assets1\strip\sp_ingame.sp
JavaGuy Posted July 9, 2003 Posted July 9, 2003 Nope. You can change it. You'll need a graphic editor like Gimp or something that can handle targas with alpha layers. Open up the assets0.pk3 and dig into the menu/video directory. There you'll find a targa called tc_engl.tga. Open it up and put "Your ad here" or whatever scrolling text you want. Now make an ICARUS script that starts with these lines: rem ( "THE STAR WARS TEXT CRAWL" ); set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_VIDEO_FADE_IN", /*@BOOL_TYPES*/ "true" ); set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_VIDEO_PLAY", "jk0101_sw" ); wait ( $150$ ); Target the script runner with your player start, and you're in business.
tFighterPilot Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 woohoo! IT FINALLY WORKED! Took some time, but it finally works!
lukeskywalker1 Posted July 10, 2003 Author Posted July 10, 2003 Sweet, ill get to working on it soon! ^_^
lukeskywalker1 Posted July 10, 2003 Author Posted July 10, 2003 its a white screen? is it supposed to be like that?
lassev Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 Indeed it is supposed to be like that. Don't make it anything else. All you need is a completely white image with an alpha channel. The alpha channel contains all the text. Thus you need a program that can handle alphas, like PSP or Photoshop, or equivalent, like JavaGuy said.
JavaGuy Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 Check out gimp.org. The learning curve is a little steep, but no more so than any good graphics program. It powerful and free!
tFighterPilot Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 The text should be on transperent It was on white in the beginning, and it made it look very strange in the game.
lukeskywalker1 Posted July 10, 2003 Author Posted July 10, 2003 Alright, thanks ill check out gimp.org and DL it.
lukeskywalker1 Posted September 30, 2003 Author Posted September 30, 2003 Sorry for bringing this thread back up, but i didnt need to use this until now (i thought i would need it sooner) But anyways, i tried it, and this is what i got: http://www.angelfire.com/games5/lukeskywalker215/scroll.jpg im using photo studio SE if it helps (im not sure if it supports alpha layers. Another question, how do i DL that gimp program (maybe im just dumb) but i couldnt figure out how to DL it...
GothiX Posted September 30, 2003 Posted September 30, 2003 I get an error when I try to view the pic of your error.. Irony is a harsh mistress.
lukeskywalker1 Posted September 30, 2003 Author Posted September 30, 2003 sorry http://www.angelfire.com/games5/lukeskywalker215/scroll.JPG
lassev Posted September 30, 2003 Posted September 30, 2003 You don't have an alpha channel at all, do you? It seems like you failed to save it to the file. Also remember that if you convert the targa (tga) format to some other format, it will most likely lose the alpha. And be careful to study the posts up there, to notice that you don't want to have any "visible" text in your editor, only the alpha channel. The game needs the alpha, nothing more.
lukeskywalker1 Posted September 30, 2003 Author Posted September 30, 2003 I get what your saying, it was just a completly white page, i clicked to write text, then i just typed stuff in, and then i saved it (as a .tga) and made it into a pk3, in the gamedata directory. I ran my mod, and typed in cinematic jk0101_sw and the star wars part looked normal, but then that yellow thingy came up.
lassev Posted October 1, 2003 Posted October 1, 2003 Yeah, study the alpha issue. The are different ways of making an alpha channel (layer). I made it perhaps the harder way by first typing the text normally, then selecting it with the magic wand selection tool, and then saving the selection as an alpha. After that I erased the visible text. Thus all that remained was the alpha channel. The other way is through masks. However, I have never bothered to learn how to use those (since I use selections A LOT), so I cannot help you with that. But I'm positive you will get it working. It's easy, basically nothing more than what you do with transparent shader images, after all. Oh, Photoshop 7.00 has some problems with targa format, so be careful, if you are using that software and version, or update to 7.01, as it might solve the issue (maybe).
lukeskywalker1 Posted October 1, 2003 Author Posted October 1, 2003 I got, thanks for your help! I figured out how to get that gimp program, and i selected the whole page and erased the text (but it didnt erase the alphashader) then i just typed whatever in white text, and saved it, and it worked!
lassev Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 Cool! I hope this means you will finish you project soon, and release it for all audience to behold.
lukeskywalker1 Posted October 2, 2003 Author Posted October 2, 2003 Thanks, but i still have a huge ammount of scripting to do.
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