CGI Movies

[Tsunokiette]

CGI Movies
by Tsunokiette
Nov 23 2005

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JFYI: A CGI movie is a movie and or cutscene made using multiple images; a good example would be what Square-Enix is doing for FFXII (final fantasy 12)

Ever experience lag problems using the movie script?

Have no problem making the images, but the events just take too long?

Well this script is for you!

What you need to do is create a folder named "CGI" (without quotes) in the Data folder like this ->

Game_Folder => Data => CGI

and then for each CGI movie you want, create a folder in the CGI folder for it like this ->

Game_Folder => Data => CGI => Movie1

and in that movie folder, put all the images needed for the CGI movie named 1...2...3...4...etc. based on the order they need to appear.

Now that we have all that out of the way, add this above Main -

CGI Movie Script

[/CODE]#===================================================================
# * CGI Movies
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create cutscenes and movies using images, like what Square-Enix is doing for Final Fantasy 12
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Tsunokiette
# Version 3
# 11.22.05
#=======================================================================

#**********************
# Create RPG::Cache.CGI
#**********************
module RPG
module Cache
def self.CGI(filename)
self.load_bitmap("Data/CGI/", filename)
end
end
end

#************************
# Start CGI Movies Script
#************************
class Scene_CGI
attr_accessor :cgi_over

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Initialize the CGI Movie
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# cgi_folder = folder containing CGI images
# scene = the scene to return to after CGI plays
# skip = set to true if you want to be able to skip movie by pressing esc.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------

def initialize(cgi_folder, scene, skip = false)
@folder = cgi_folder
@scene = scene
@folder_size = Dir.entries("Data/CGI/#{@folder}").size
@skip = skip
@cgi_over = false
play_cgi
end

#-------------------
# Main Processing
#-------------------
def main
loop do
if @cgi_over == true
break
end
end
@cgi_over = false
$scene = @scene
end

#-------------------
# Play the CGI Movie
#-------------------
def play_cgi
for i in 1..(@folder_size - 2)
unless @skip == false
if Input.trigger?(Input::B)
break
end
end
@cgi = Sprite.new
@cgi.bitmap = RPG::Cache.CGI("#{@folder}/#{i}")
@cgi.x = ((640 - @cgi.bitmap.width) / 2)
@cgi.y = ((480 - @cgi.bitmap.height) / 2)
delay(1)
@cgi.dispose
end
@cgi_over = true
end

#------
# Delay
#------
def delay(wait)
count = Graphics.frame_count
while wait + count >= Graphics.frame_count
Graphics.update
end
end
end
#**********************
# End CGI Movies Script
#**********************[/CODE]

in order to play a CGI Movie you need to use this line -

Code:

$scene = Scene_CGI.new (folder, scene, skip)

folder is the folder that contains the CGI images you want to play

scene is the scene you want to return to when the CGI movie is over

skip is automaticly set to false, but put true if you want to be able to skip the CGI movie by pressing esc.

example:

the folder is name movie1 and you want to go to the map afterwards

with skipping

Code:

$scene = Scene_CGI.new ("movie1", Scene_Map.new, true)

without skipping

Code:

$scene = Scene_CGI.new ("movie1", Scene_Map.new)

people have ssaid they wanted to play a movie before the title screen, so to do that, you would replace this line (in main)

Code:

$scene = Scene_Title.new

with this (without skipping)

Code:

$scene = Scene_CGI.new(folder, Scene_Title.new)

with skipping

Code:

$scene = Scene_CGI.new(folder, Scene_Title.new,true)