MaNiac wrote:Now then, I understand that the original source FMVs are quite old and that this might be quite hard to do but would there be any chance to improve the quality of the Cut Scenes?
Don't get me wrong, I was thrilled when you had added them to the game, along with the music because without out them it wouldn't be the same.
If you could make the scenes the same high resolution as the game play has (1680x1050) then I think it would give the game a bit more up-to-date edge.
We need someone to re-encode the vids, but we don't have the source material.MaNiac wrote:Now then, I understand that the original source FMVs are quite old and that this might be quite hard to do but would there be any chance to improve the quality of the Cut Scenes?
Don't get me wrong, I was thrilled when you had added them to the game, along with the music because without out them it wouldn't be the same.
If you could make the scenes the same high resolution as the game play has (1680x1050) then I think it would give the game a bit more up-to-date edge.
I always wondered why the vids were not made open source like the rest of the game. :-SBuginator wrote:
We need someone to re-encode the vids, but we don't have the source material.
All we got is 320x200 and 160x200 original vids, so stretching them to 1680x1050 makes them look VERY ugly/blocky.
That is why we have the option for original size, double, and full screen...
Might I enquire as to this FMW in the source release? I have gotten up to Beta 3 in the 2.2 Release Candidate 1 version and was rather happy to see more Cut scenes included between Alpha 12 and Beta 1 regarding NEXUS and Team Beta falling under attackwhippersnapper wrote:.
The original FMVs were done in 3DMax and when it came to liberating the source the Max Project files could not be found... apparently
lost in the transition from Pumpkin to Pivotal long before 2004. At least that is what i was told when I asked the head programer
oh so many years ago.
They did find one FMV that was NOT in the retail release and they included that in the source release. It was nothing really
special, just a curio for die-hard fans.
IMHO, all other things being equal (adequate time, skills, a powerful inclination to re-create an others work), I think the most challenging
element to re-making them at a much higher GFX quality is good voice acting - & in multiple languages to boot...
Regards, whipper
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That was awesome. At least I got to keep my units between campaigns 
Likeiwse, just checked the 2.2 files on my Laptop and couldn't see them and I did check the download links on here to get the vids by themselves and couldn't find a link, otherwise I'd test it too.hjhjhj wrote:Did research a bit, how about this program for better video res.:
http://www.vreveal.com/
Didnt try it because i dont have the videos in a playable format :-S
Well, it is. In a way. Just use the fullscreen option.Revelo wrote:It's a shame really, I figured that the task of resizing FMW scenes to fit more resolutions would have been easy to boot.
Hmm, puts a big enough wrench in my plan that I don't know what to suggest. I do use the fullscreen option.cybersphinx wrote: Well, it is. In a way. Just use the fullscreen option.
But with better quality? Where do you want to get that from? The originals have a resolution of 320x240, there isn't more quality.
If you want to try some upscaling software, get http://download.gna.org/warzone/videos/ ... i.tar.lzma and try it (though I doubt the result will be really better, just a different kind of blurry).
Yep... I tend to agree.cybersphinx wrote:
But with better quality? Where do you want to get that from? The originals have a resolution of 320x240, there isn't more quality.
If you want to try some upscaling software, get http://download.gna.org/warzone/videos/ ... i.tar.lzma and try it (though I doubt the result will be really better, just a different kind of blurry).
I will have a look when I get home from Uni in a couple of weeks and I have no assignments or work to put me offwhippersnapper wrote:
Yep... I tend to agree.
BTW - you have to buy those apps if you wanna generate output without a watermark.
All those apps are doing is what is called "Pixel Warping towards the edges" (being 1 of 2
techniques. The other is called "Pixel Convolution"... In the case of the FMVs, warping
would be better, relatively speaking)...
Instead of those commercial apps - get the free OSS "VirtualDub" and run the "Pixel Warping" Filter.
Free of watermarks and you'll see if it produces a better "blurry"...
Regards, whipper
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It's not like there's anything to lose anyway 
I'm not going to go on a rant against the Project, it's good they got them in there. At least some of the blurriness comes from the Theora encoding. That will be better once the new Theora version ("Thusnelda") is released, and the videos are encoded with that.If it cleans up the blurriness somewhat then that's something anyway. :)
Well, currently, the FMVs that come with Warzone are much worse than the original 320x240. After all, they've been compressed from 1GB down to 180MB. And a good upscaler could work wonders.cybersphinx wrote:But with better quality? Where do you want to get that from? The originals have a resolution of 320x240, there isn't more quality.