ToEE Backstory and Greyhawk Info

Allyx et al -

I know you real modders get tired of hearing this from us rank and file types, but unless Agetian's editor has big fat buttons that say "create floating text file here," I won't be able to hang with modding that sort of thing.

What I was thinking of in my cryptic previous post from April is movies. (Am I correct in understanding that Agetian's tool now supports them?) Theoretically, you could insert a BINK video with scrolling text backed by theme music, telling you what's going on. It would be very cool. Plus, I can serve as the movie factory, as I've got the tools to do it all, as well (hopefully) as some small modicum of skill. So if anyone wants custom movies made, you've found the right guy.

The only draw back is that movies, even in the smaller BINK file format, are very large in data size. So if we threw a bunch of movies into a mod, it would end of being 200MB or something like that. Offhand, I'd figure about 50MB for every three minutes of BINK video, if I remember correctly.

 

So on the same day I get 2 comments:

Agetian: "Some BG (2?) mods are over 400mb you know"

Gaear: "I can serve as the movie factory you know"

Plus a reminder of all the stuff Lord Spike has put up here...

Gaear, remember that little task I had for you a long while back? I do believe the time has come... PM to follow after some desperatly needed sleep.

And yes there IS a button (or at least a checkbox) says something like 'create floating text file', gave me a shock too!

 

No fair -- I already washed the windows and cleaned the toilet!