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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	ok, but I am trying to NOT use flash this time around... plus maybe I'll learn something new. I am beginning to think that the movie is called from the program language that they are using... ( C+ maybe?? ) example: I purchased the new game "Morrowind" When I click on the icon on the desktop to play it, a menu comes up, I choose play. It then will play a movie.... the name of the company fades in and blurrs a bit.. then it goes to a real fancy "ancient looking interface" and the name of the game fades in and twinkels a bit, then a menu appears. The movie that is played is a .bik file. I do have a utility that can convert .bik to avi, etc and visa versa. But the movie has interaction (the menu) and the quality is "movie quality" If I were to do this in flash, the quality would just not be there... even if I set the compression to the lowest setting. Also, you never now what screen res a viewer is running, which would really destroy the look/feel of a movie, unless it was all vector based. So.. my guess is that the movie(s) are made in a good 3d program and rendered to a specific format. and then when the game is compiled, the code will call the movie and play it. Using the same code, they can generate a menu to "overlay" on the movie. This is my guess, I have no knowledge of c= or any gaming code, so I dont know if you can even "overlay" a menu. I am going to keep look though... If I find something, I'll post it Loading...
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