Splash Screens/Default Text

[Arrow]

I guess my search skills are lacking, as I'm sure this MUST have been asked before...

What I want to do is (A) Make a splash screen appear before the title (or more preferably, a small video clip), and I want to change the default text in the game. I.E: New Game would become Beginning or something of that nature.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, as I'm sure it is.

[Naphe]

Alright I know how to do the last part.
Though the first part your going to have to work with me to get it done.

I'll post a tutorial on how to do it.

[Arrow]

Thanks, amigo. Kind of embaressing I can't figure it out on my own. Does it involve editing the script for Scene_Title?

[Naphe]

MAJOR BREAK THROUGH!

I found out how to do the video, *was playing with FF7*, but one thing, the player must go through the whole movie before being able to play. Could someone make me a small insertable script like the following:

If Esc key is pressed
Jump To Title Scene
Else Do Nothing

[Arrow]

Actually, I don't want them to be able to skip, as it's a very short intro to the title screen. Could I have the non-skippy version?

[Blizzard]

If you want an intro scene before the Title, I suggest two scripts: My credits script can easily be used as an intro script OR get an .avi player script.
But if you need a real splash screen, I suggest you find a program that implements a splash screen into your .exe.

[Doctor Professor Nikolai]

Hey, I need a splash screen, too >_>

[Naphe]

MAJOR BREAK THROUGH!

I found out how to do the video, *was playing with FF7*, but one thing, the player must go through the whole movie before being able to play. Could someone make me a small insertable script like the following:

If Esc key is pressed
Jump To Title Scene
Else Do Nothing

Blizzard can you do this for me?

[Blizzard]

In the main method of the scene should be somewhere this part:

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    loop do
      Graphics.update
      Input.update
      update
      if $scene != self
        break
      end
    end

Replace if with:

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    loop do
      Graphics.update
      Input.update
      update
      if $scene != self
        break
      end
      if Input.trigger?(Input::B)
        $scene = Scene_Title.new
        break
      end
    end

Note that I assume the next scene is the Scene_Title so I put there $scene = Scene_Title.new . Of course you can change that if you like.

[Arrow]

What I did was I took the movie script (see the AVI insert topic on the first page of this section) and named it Scene_Movie.

I replaced Scene_Title (in the Main script) with Scene_Movie.

I got this message:



It puts me at this line when I open the script editor back up (in bold for easier viewing):

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#==============================================================================
# ? Main
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ???????????????????????????????
#==============================================================================

begin

  # This variable determines the default font type
  $defaultfonttype = "Tahoma"
  # This variable determines the default font size
  $defaultfontsize = 22

  # ?????????
  Graphics.freeze
  # ????????? (??????) ???
  $scene = Scene_Movie.new <----THIS ONE
  # $scene ?????? main ?????????
  while $scene != nil
    $scene.main
  end
  # ???????
  Graphics.transition(20)
rescue Errno::ENOENT
  # ?? Errno::ENOENT ???
  # ????????????????????????????????
  filename = $!.message.sub("No such file or directory - ", "")
  print("File #{filename} not found.")
end



So what do I do now?

[Lord Cloud]

im pretty sure i remember seeing this posted int the fourms a long hwile back. ill see if i can dig it up

[Arrow]

Thank you man.

[Lord Cloud]

http://www.dubealex.com/asylum/index.php?showtopic=4227&hl=splash+screen

here you go, i believe this is what your looking for.

[Blizzard]

Post the movie script. I need to see what argument he is missing when calling main.

[Arrow]

###########################################################
class Scene_Movie
###########################################################
#Created by SoundSpawn
###########################################################
#Fixed by Popper
###########################################################
#Instruction
#  1) Movies must in in a new folder called Movies in your directory
#  2)If you call this script from and event (EG:    Call Script: $scene = Scene_Movie.new("INTRO") )
#  3) Have fun playin movies with this script!!!
###########################################################
###########################################################
###########################################################

def initialize(movie)
@readini = Win32API.new 'kernel32', 'GetPrivateProfileStringA', %w(p p p p l p), 'l'
@movie_name = Dir.getwd()+"\\Movies\\"+movie+".avi"
main
end

def main
game_name = "\0" * 256
@readini.call('Game','Title','',game_name,255,".\\Game.ini")
game_name.delete!("\0")
@wnd = Win32API.new('user32','FindWindowEx','%w(l,l,p,p)','L')
@temp = @wnd.call(0,0,nil,game_name).to_s
movie = Win32API.new('winmm','mciSendString','%w(p,p,l,l)','V')
movie.call("open \""+@movie_name+"\" alias FILE style 1073741824 parent " + @temp.to_s,0,0,0)
@message = Win32API.new('user32','SendMessage','%w(l,l,l,l)','V')

@detector = Win32API.new('user32','GetSystemMetrics','%w(l)','L')
@width = @detector.call(0)
if @width == 640
fullscreen
Graphics.update
sleep(0.1)
Graphics.update
sleep(0.1)
Graphics.update
sleep(0.1)
fullscreen
end


status = " " * 255
movie.call("play FILE",0,0,0)
loop do 
sleep(0.1)
@message.call(@temp.to_i,11,0,0)
Graphics.update
@message.call(@temp.to_i,11,1,0)
Input.update
movie.call("status FILE mode",status,255,0)
true_status = status.unpack("aaaa")
if true_status.to_s != "play"
break
end
if Input.trigger?(Input::B)
$scene = Scene_Map.new
break
end
end
$scene = Scene_Map.new
end

end

[Blizzard]

Ok, in main it shouldn't be

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$scene = Scene_Movie.new

but

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$scene = Scene_Movie.new("NAME_OF_YOUR_MOVIE")

where NAME_OF_YOUR_MOVIE is the name of your movie without the extension .avi .

[Arrow]

Ah. KK.

[Kakashi0978]

I'm getting an error:

????? 'Spriteset_Map' ? 21 ??? NoMethodError ????????
undefined method 'tileset_name' for nil:NilClass

[ChaosSpartan28]

lol, you bumped something from 6 months ago. Well if you havent noticed, Naphe has been banned and Blizzard has gone on a break. Im not sure but I think there is already a better script in the Script Database.

Please try not to bump something this old.

[Kakashi0978]

Sorry, I didn't realize how old it was. I was just searching and this thread seemed to meet my needs.

[bublet]

to change your font.... add this code to your Game_Temp script (the first one)

Font.default_name = 'YOUR FONT HERE!!!'
 
I do not take credit for this. Anyway, make sure everyone that plays your game has the font!!
(I put the font sydnie cuz it's an rpg font..all pixely...)

[Irock]

You posted in a really old thread...don't do that again.