making a main menu

[ket]

I've never really given it much thought until now, but say I was to create my own video for stalker, how could I use that video as part of the main menu?

[VINTAR]

Hmmm. I saw a file called asus last night. I'm assuming this is the asus logo animation. Maybe you could edit that file. I'll try find it again.

[ket]

Thats just a splash screen (I think). I'm talking about the main menu itself. I have some well creepy music and would like to add in a video into the main menu to go with it

[VINTAR]

Must be something to do with the anim files then.

[ket]

I'm not sure on all of the files. Theres a XML file that references various animations with the original menu, but I'm not sure how to adjust it for my own truely custom main menu.

[Nightwatch]

You mean that you want to change the video that plays in the background, above and beyond the main menu, and also the fire effects. They are possible, but if you mean that you want to use a video on full screen, that would bring some problems as how to present the main menu. You'd still need to insert a sort of menu on the screen. That would require a complete re-work.

[ket]

Not a fullscreen video, just a box playing the video inserted into a static background.

[Nightwatch]

OK, got it. I'm not at my STALKER installed PC at the moment (out of London currently) but possibly tomorrow I can point to the files that would need changes made on them.

[ket]

Thanks uncle nighty

[Nightwatch]

Sorry for the delay in answering, I wanted to come home and check the vanilla files to be sure the references are correct in the vanilla, as I haven't looked at vanilla files for ages.

-To change the video that plays above the options menu in the "main menu screen" (the rain/thunder over NPP video) you need to go to textures\ui folder and locate: ui_mm_main_back_crop.ogg video.

All videos are in OGG Media Stream format, so you need to format your video accordingly.

-To change the fire video clip, that burns at the bottom of the screen, change: ui_mm_fire.ogg

-There's another video instead of NPP rain video, which is: ui_mm_window_back_crop, which offers a campfire view video.

If you want to amend/change the sizes of main menu windows (video playing windows), then the file that's need to be worked on is: config\ui\ ui_mm_main.xml

Then if you change/replace the music of the main menu with the sound of your own video, the sound issue will have been dealt as well. (videos do come without sound.)


There are also other videos on textures\intro and textures\sleep folders (all OGG as well) and their sounds(or dialogs) are in sounds folder.

Check the config\ui\movies.xml for the protocol for pointing the sound to the related video.

Example: This example is the video from the "I Wish for Gold" choice in quick-end play of the game. You know, where he dies with a gold coin in his hand. Length is 1:24 minutes.

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<mov_desire_2>
      <play_each_item>1</play_each_item>
      <global_wnd x="0" y="0" width="1024" height="768">
         <auto_static x="0" y="0" width="1024" height="768" stretch="1">
            <window_name>back</window_name>
            <texture>intro\intro_back</texture>
         </auto_static>
      </global_wnd>
      
      <item type="video">
         <sound>characters_voice\scenario\video\final_gold</sound>
         <pause_state>on</pause_state>
         <function_on_stop>xr_effects.game_credits</function_on_stop>
         <can_be_stopped>off</can_be_stopped>
         <video_wnd x="0" y="0" width="1024" height="768" stretch="1">
            <texture x="0" y="1" width="512" height="286">intro\final_gold</texture>
         </video_wnd>
      </item>
   </mov_desire_2>


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Hope I've been helpful a bit.

[ket]

Thanks I'll work on that soon.. but not today I'm a little hung over