Hi! just an a idea for gameguru developers

Its possible to put a video (.mp4) instead a .jpg in the back menu of the Standalone games? such like Half life 2 first menu, like a background looping video... you know what they saying, the first impression of a game its really important.

Maybe creating a .PNG transparent items for the menu and a loop video in background could create some serious startpoint for gamemakers using gameguru...

i buyed gameguru via steam a month ago... found this tool fantastic, because i dont have coding skills, my thing its to think and create maps with some missions (using the smallg scripts and others, such a great help for us), GG is the only tool in the market that works for me, Unity is fair to complicated for non coding minds, but the performance of the engine its awesome...

I have faith in gameguru coders and developers, think this can be revolutionary, just hope to developers keep go with the improvements of AI and FPS jugability (for our low benchmark people!).

Just some ideas ... thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1omvkqbzU&list=PLpmG2JGHItwlH7ezG9x3XtaLw-Wt17JeR

Such a fan ...

GG its potential here... I love the TV screen conversations with the models there, its looks like a decal ... it can be done in GG? It would be great to have more decals like screens , people, animations of all type... i know its hard to make your own decal...

As far as I know it's not possible in GG as of yet. I had it working in a GG menu maker program I started working on years ago, so I'm pretty sure it would take no time at all to add in though. I stopped working on it when Lee added a menu screen which strangely enough was very shortly after I posted my menu maker program. Pity nothing has been changed on it since

I've only dabbled in C++ so I'm not sure if it's a simple addition for github possibly. It was easy as pie in DB Pro

Thats pretty amazing @DVader ! nice use of the resources! cool work

Thanks, I was pretty pleased with it at the time. The project was posted on these forums so should still be around. Not sure though if you can actually disable the current menu system to work with it. Plus it is really old and may have issues now of course. Actually, it may well be possible to edit the current menu code to include a video now as lua commands have progressed massively since I wrote that little tool.

I might have a look and see what is possible in lua now I'm probably at least 6 months out of date currently.

At a guessI think the main reason it won't work on the menus is because the variable used to locate the video points to the input field in the properties panel of an entity. If the LUA command could be changed in the global file to be able to reference a video location from within the script, without needing an entity, it should in theory work, i could be wrong though.

Yes, there is no way to actually load a video up directly. There's an enormous amount of new commands now, but nothing I can see that will help here. A command to load up a video and to loop it would be all that is needed to get this in, plus a way to delete it from memory when running the game. Also a way to scale the video to the correct resolution possibly. This would be a pretty easy addition for Lee I would imagine, and would make GG titles look that much more professional from the get go

@Lee our code champion

So many things people want, maybe we should have a voting board.... oh, wait.....

I don't think anyone has specifically asked for it, we were just discussing options. As an example though, it would take me about 10 minutes in DB Pro to add a video backdrop and that would be because I would have to install it and am rusty I'd say Lee probably already has the code needed lying around already

Regarding the voting board, it has been awhile since it was relevant. DX11 has been a long wait and lets face it non voting board stuff has been added while it is being finished already. It's been so long I'll bet many new people may not even be that aware of it.

Make a request at the github issue tracker Some guys like me maybe see it and add it without Lee´s help

I requested this about 3 years ago. We used to have it in FPS Creator x9 and I did utilize it quite a bit back then. Seen some others request this along the way as well: Example

Additionally I made a github request in February:
https://github.com/TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo/issues/62

am looking into this now while doing some other github type stuff.. will see what can be done....