SEQ file creation and such

[Kawa]

Technically you don't "import" SEQ files like you would other resources, no?

*studies ScummVM's seq_decoder.cpp*

Edit: Full frames would be the easiest to get started with. The other option is RLE.

[lskovlun]

The LSL6 interpreter does not support the ShowMovie kernel call. So we'd have to switch interpreters (again) to get it.

[Kawa]

Guess I was right about kSeqFrameFull being easy to work with.

Edit: I can play RLE frames now. The entire file renders perfectly as far as I can tell.

[Collector]

Technically you don't "import" SEQ files like you would other resources, no?

*studies ScummVM's seq_decoder.cpp*

Edit: Full frames would be the easiest to get started with. The other option is RLE.

Well the SEQ files were generally outside of the main resource/map files if that is what you mean, but there has to be a way to create the SEQ files, whether frame by frame in an editor (perhaps like the VIEW editor for each frame) or by conversion of an external file encoded with a standard video format, hence "importing". The interpreters that support SEQ have a flag for the path to the SEQ files called in the RESOURCE.CFG.

[Kawa]

I know enough to make SEQ files now. A converter that does naive fully-uncompressed output is easy at this point. Maybe dirty rectangles too.

[Kawa]

Gentlemung, I present you... a custom-made SEQ file, confimed to run equally well in ScummVM and my player. It's this big because it's naively-made, as described above. Next challenge is cropping out the changed bits. But as far as proofs of concept go...

Update: now does top/bottom clipping, reducing theend.seq to only 229 KB.

[lskovlun]

Cool!

[Kawa]

Cool!

I'll do you one better. Here's the actual program, with the bitmap source data I used to make that seq file.

It's .Net, but I don't think it does anything untoward that would prevent any ol' Mono installation from running it. In fact, I just tested both it and my player in a Mint VM to resounding success.

[MusicallyInspired]

Sweet! This deserves its own thread, really. Can a mod split it?

[Kawa]

Sweet! This deserves its own thread, really. Can a mod split it?

I am a mod.

[Collector]

Source?

[Kawa]

Man, between this and the old OpenPok? map editor, I'm on a source-releasing roll here.

[Collector]

Thanks!

[MusicallyInspired]

Sweet! This deserves its own thread, really. Can a mod split it?

I am a mod.

Oh! So you are...

[Kawa]

Here's an interesting twist.

As Iskovlun suggested, the LSL6 terp doesn't do ShowMovie. So I dropped in all the files that came with KQ6CD -- not just SIERRA.EXE, but all the drivers and other such files too, and the config file for good measure. Given two testing videos -- FS1 and my THEEND -- I get a pretty weird result. It's all tiny and staggering. Whereas if I do the opposite, replacing KQ6's FS1 with THEEND, I get a color problem.

Neither of these things happen in ScummVM, be they Template or KQ6. The part where it takes so freakin' long to get FS1 to play in KQ6 doesn't make testing for fixes any easier.