General Questions

[Ionspy]

Hi guys !

I have a few questions to make !

1. How i can change the number and the images on the buttons in the select campaign window ?
2. Which are the characteristics for a Avi video in order to be used in falcon.
3. How i can convince the squadrons to use the skins i want ?

Thank you
Ionspy

[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Ionspy:
1. How i can change the number and the images on the buttons in the select campaign window ?

number and images, I'm assuming you mean squadron names and squadron patches.

Squadron names is changed from Tacedit. Squadron Patches are related to the name somehow, I'm not expert on the patches.

quote:2. Which are the characteristics for a Avi video in order to be used in falcon.

This is what Froglips wrote to me:

Snakeman,
Beautiful video. Wrong format. Your format.
320 x 240 x 24bit x 15fps

Correct format.
640 x 240 x 24bit x 24fps

I have tried to correct it but I can not double the height without porking the
aspect ratio. It must match exactly to be recognized by F4.

Froggie
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There was another document about it by Washout and it goes like this

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Hi Widowmaker

Here's the settings I used in Adobe Premiere:

Video Settings
Codec (no pun intended): Cinepak Codec by Radius (Set to compress to
colour)
Resolution: 640x240
Frame Rate: 24fps
Quality: 100%
Limit Data Rate: 500K/sec

Audio settings
Rate: 22050
Format: 16bit Stereo
Compressor: Uncompressed

Rendering Options
Field Setting: No Fields

Special Processing
Gamma 1.0 Noise Reduction: None
Better Resize: Off
Deinterlace: Off
Cropping: Off

I'm not sure if some of the special features are applicable without
messing things up but as these settings worked I would go with them

Judging by the way the Falcon4 exe switches screen resolutions I
suspect they are just using an external call to the media player code
but with checks on what parameters the file holds.

Obviously I had to replace Intro.avi in the movies folder with my own
version and it didn't seem to matter that mine is 3 minutes long so
no need to try and match file sizes/length.

Hope this helps you out.

Later
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Hope that helps from me too

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[Ionspy]

Thanks for answering to me.

I mean the buttons that you select the campaign you want to play. You know the settings for the other videos (320X240) in falcon and not only the intro one.

Ionspy