Any new background loading screens out there?

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I'm getting absolutely sick of seeing the same old ugly loading screens every time I load up a new match!

If there's not many of them, what folder are they stored in so I can change them myself (and how does one go about changing them, too?)
 
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Growler said:
I'm getting absolutely sick of seeing the same old ugly loading screens every time I load up a new match!

If there's not many of them, what folder are they stored in so I can change them myself (and how does one go about changing them, too?)
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Well, technically, the loading screens are Bink movie files, so in theory, you could change them by encoding some video to bink video... although I have no idea how you'd do that, or how happy the game would be with your changes.
 
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Dark Pulse said:
Well, technically, the loading screens are Bink movie files, so in theory, you could change them by encoding some video to bink video... although I have no idea how you'd do that, or how happy the game would be with your changes.
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You mean these loading screens aren't actually background images?!

[SCREENSHOT]http://videlais.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/loading.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

Boy, they sure know how to make things complicated to change :mad:

Unless you're referring to something else here?
 
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I dont even see them; instead, black screen and PRECACHING. I dont know what caused it, but I'm happy with this.
 
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UT2003/4 used textures for the loading screens. You had to import the images into the editor and DXT compress them to create a texture file. I only assume a similar method can be used for UT3. I'll check on it this weekend if I have time.
 
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Growler said:
You mean these loading screens aren't actually background images?!

[screenshot]http://videlais.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/loading.jpg[/screenshot]

Boy, they sure know how to make things complicated to change :mad:

Unless you're referring to something else here?
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Correct. UT3 Install Directory/UTGame/Movies, UT_loadmovie*.bik where * is 1-8.
ne_skaju said:
I dont even see them; instead, black screen and PRECACHING. I dont know what caused it, but I'm happy with this.
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You probably disabled or deleted all the movie files. :p
 
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I believe there is a free bink encoder. Can't be bothered checking though.

Anyone have any theories as to *why* they'd do it this way? Sounds horribly clunky. At least ut2k3's way of textures made a little sense.
 
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Oh yeah, Epic did it that way so that they have that cute little rotating U Shield.

Edit:/Here is a link to download the Bink encoder from RADTools. I'm not sure if it provides all the options needed to make the Bink video files that can be used in UT3.
 
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