Movie Sequences

[yanta]

Does ne1 know if there is a way to make a movie sequence in rpg maker 2k3? If so them plz tell me how.

[Prpl_Mage]

You ca nimport movies into the maker but they are mostly really huge and takes some unecessary space.

You can however do cut scenes where you uses the charsets and then animations to make it look really flashy.
A given here is that you set a timer on the messages that some one speaks and uses the message format a lot. Or even voice overs.

You could tell us what you want to code and we could give you guidelines.

[Melch]

I plan on using multiple pictures for a simple movie.

I will be using a background picture for the....background.

Then, I plan on using a chipset to do my moving parts. Having the base tiles to make the solid parts, and then events to make things change.

Lastly, I will use more pictures for the foreground or the focused action.

Example....
First, a background of a Server Room, a large clean room with many Servers. If you've seen Hackers, then you know what I'm talking about.

Then, using a chipset, make a "map" of a Super Computer in the center of the screen. It would have many flashy lights and visuals.

Then, using a charset, have events that alternate between lights or whatnot. For example, one group of four lights in a single tile would have the top light on, then the right light, then bottom, then left. The event would be non-continuous, so it stands still, but rotates in place. Each turn would alter the lights. (You could use variables and the move event to alternate between a total of 12 frames for a longer animation.)

Then in the foreground, I'd have a picture of people talking. Or, fires and electrical discharges. Or like a small rat running quickly past the bottom of the screen, or whatever I want.

So that is how I plan on doing my "movies" so that it takes pictures to do the work, and takes up less space. It won't be as smooth as a video would be, but if you are looking for graphics, RM might not be the best solution...  

[yanta]

i was thinking of like a simple movie sequence using the maker and the stuff with it. if you know nething on that then plz tell me.

[Vidian]

I was trying to make some nice looking movie scene a while ago.

I made Pictures of my Characters like that Batman game that used Pictures as his people.

But doing battle animations can be really cool but they don't usually
last long. But if you use pictures they can stay up there for entire dialog scenes.

[yanta]

Originally posted by Vidian
I was trying to make some nice looking movie scene a while ago.

I made Pictures of my Characters like that Batman game that used Pictures as his people.

But doing battle animations can be really cool but they don't usually
last long. But if you use pictures they can stay up there for entire dialog scenes.

but the problem with that is that its really old and not as exciting nemore. im looking for events that i can use to make a better movie sequence.