Is it possible to create new movies?

[Shrike]

Title says it all.

 

[ABel]

As far as I know, there is no MVE-compressor publicily available.
Several members of some fan-comunities were able to convince the Interplay to provide them with the original Targa to MVE converter. I have contacted one of that lucky guys a year ago, he claimed that he could not copy the utility because of very strong restrictions from Interplay.
This situation is unlikely to change.

 

[Shrike]

I know there is a mve2avi converter readily available, so how about making it go the other direction?

 

[ABel]

Mve2Avi is just a capturing program - it catches the DirectX calls and saves the screen contents into file, that's all. It knows almost nothing about structire of MVE.

The only way is to completely explore MVE-format and then to make the compressor.

 

[Shrike]

I would do it myself, but I know nothing about doing that sort of thing. I take it no one is willing to take the time to do it?

 

[sztupy]

in one of the mve2avi files there is the specification of the mve file and the source code of something (maybe the decoder) too.

 

[Den Baster]

hmm very bad

 

[Valdis]

It would be more work than it's worth, really.

 

[Den Baster]

I created VertiBird FO2 Mod and very need in new mve animations.
But compression too hard.

 

[Odin]

I created VertiBird FO2 Mod and very need in new mve animations.
But compression too hard.

Any word on when that mod will be in english ?

btw great mod !

 

[Den Baster]

Thanks Odin .
English version coming soon 8) .

 

[Shrike]

It would be more work than it's worth, really.

Well, I'm making a TC for Fallout 2, and I really need a way to make new cutscenes.

 

[ABel]

Looks like I managed to make an MVE from bitmap files yesterday.
Take a look: http://return0.pisem.net/worms.rar (1,95 Mb)
RAR files are sometimes transferred incorrectly from the server, so here is ZIPped archive: http://return0.pisem.net/worms.zip (2,16 Mb)

The compression algorithms is too far from optimal. Currently, MVE is about 1/3 from the total size of original images.
And there is no sound track support yet.

 

[Shrike]

Keep up the good work ABel! If this gets to be full motion with sound, you'll not only have helped me, but any other person that wants to make a TC. I definitely look forward to that.

Perhaps you could try turning something like an animated .GIF into a .MVE?

 

[Den Baster]

Very Good, Abel