#112655 - canvasch - Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:47 am
so i'm fairly decent when it comes to animating... I'm wanting to make gun/sword fight animation for the ds and i want it to play on the DS both in horizontal (book) mode and vertical (normal) mode like... certian scenes require you to turn the DS... even have two different prospectives of the same scene at certian points......... anyways...
... the thing is how can i get a .avi or .swf or anything to play on 1 file on both screens..... thanks for the help, sorry if this sounds too noobish to answer i did look but couldn't seem to find anything on this particular subject..... I did however realize if i dissected a rom and looked through the source i could probrally just copy the source of an cutscene and place my file into there...
any suggestions on how to get this animation to run would be greatly appreciated
PS: i have not started the animation yet, when i do finish or at least get a decent amount done i'll be sure to post it.
thanks for reading this.
#112656 - tepples - Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:51 am
If the SWF isn't just an FLV, you could recreate the SWF using the 3D engine and half the VRAM, and then display it using the capture trick. As for AVI across both screens, homebrew can't do that yet because we're still using "generic" codecs that haven't been heavily rewritten for the DS.
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#112753 - poslundc - Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:21 am
I am hard-pressed to think of a game design compelling enough to warrant the questionable UI requirement of the user turning their DS back-and-forth.
Dan.
#112768 - tepples - Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:36 am
| poslundc wrote: |
| I am hard-pressed to think of a game design compelling enough to warrant the questionable UI requirement of the user turning their DS back-and-forth. |
What do WarioWare: Twisted! and WarioWare: Smooth Moves ask the player to do?
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#112771 - Firon - Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:48 am
WarioWare: Touched never required you to turn your DS in any direction.
#112775 - keldon - Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:19 am
| Firon wrote: |
| WarioWare: Touched never required you to turn your DS in any direction. |
Kirby tilt and tumble!
#112778 - poslundc - Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:14 am
| tepples wrote: |
| poslundc wrote: | | I am hard-pressed to think of a game design compelling enough to warrant the questionable UI requirement of the user turning their DS back-and-forth. |
What do WarioWare: Twisted! and WarioWare: Smooth Moves ask the player to do? |
Shall I assume the answer is those things?
I didn't say such a design was unfathomable. I still see it being mostly limited to esoteric things like minigame collections, as I understand those games are.
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#112780 - tepples - Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:26 am
OK: Yoshi's Touch & Go.
As for turning the DS by 90 degrees, the player needs to do this when starting Brain Age.
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#112804 - canvasch - Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:52 am
so how would i go about using the 3d engine and halving the VRAM.... and what is the capture trick? i'll try google tomorrow on these suggestions.... i can save the animation (once finished) as basically any file type as I like.. you suggest .swf so that is most likely what i'll use.
#114066 - canvasch - Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:01 pm
well i've been on vaction.... but i'm back and kinda got started on this... i got the screen dimensions (including a 96px padding) and i made a few concept images......
but i'm not going to get into the animating untill i actually know how to get it to run..... still looking for an answer....
i just want to get 1 video to play on both screens... and if that's not possible then 2 different videos to play at once... one on each screen... anyways if you have moonshell then you can check out what i mean.... just put this picture on your flash cart....
also if you want the .psd with the screen dimensions and the screen gap just pm me and i'll send it to you.
concept art #1
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j88/harcent/Intro2nautDSREAL1.png
concept art #2
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j88/harcent/Intro2nautDSREAL2.png
concept art #3
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j88/harcent/Intro2nautDSREAL3.png