Drum roll intro text music

noyhcat

Was wondering where I might obtain the drum roll intro music found playing during the original EV Intro text. I'm now a PC user and have downloaded the EV Original add-on to nova. Oddly, I heard no drumroll while viewing the intro text. I then concluded that perhaps there was something wrong with my software, or the PC version lacked a drum roll background. I used the editor to search EV sounds.rez for the afore mentioned, without success.
Could someone tell me the name of the "piece", or where I might find it?

Thanks!

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EV for EVer

In the original EV the drumroll is actually two pieces of sound. In snd resource the EV music File. It is "Drum Intro" which is 30001 and "Drum Loop" which is 30002.

Guy

The Nova engine no longer supports sounds during the intro except in the form a movie. But a movie of the whole intro text scrolling along would be pretty huge, so it really isn't practical to have the drumroll from EV.

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seant

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Originally posted by Guy:
**The Nova engine no longer supports sounds during the intro except in the form a movie. But a movie of the whole intro text scrolling along would be pretty huge, so it really isn't practical to have the drumroll from EV.

**

That is exactly the way some other folks were doing it in a pre-official EVC port to Nova

-STH

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Dr. Trowel

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Originally posted by Guy:
**The Nova engine no longer supports sounds during the intro except in the form a movie. But a movie of the whole intro text scrolling along would be pretty huge, so it really isn't practical to have the drumroll from EV.

**

The trick would be to put the text into QuickTime as text , rather than as images. Not that I'd know how to do it, mind you, but QT does have some text-handling abilities, and I think a QT .mov can contain Flash tracks, too.

orcaloverbri9

You could also just use an SWF, which Quicktime can read, and which can handle text. Flash also has a wonderful feature to automatically create the intermediate frames when something is moved, so it would be extremely simple in Flash.

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SpacePirate

As I mentioned when I was trying to do it, it was a major pain in the rear.

While displaying a dësc, it's not possible to play background music. My tests played the BGM with a black screen, and then displayed the text. Not great at all.

Further, a movie requires a dësc. So, if you display an intro text movie, you still need a dësc of sorts. This was/is solved by saying "Prepare for launch!" or something equally incoherent.

Finally, the matter of putting the movie together from the STR# resources. I started a program to do this, but it was, again, a major pain, and not as easy as I had hoped. If I ever get the time, I may add such a feature to SpacePort 2.0.

~ SP

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orcaloverbri9

Hmm...the hardest part is getting the text to fade rather than just disappearing. You might have to abandon this effect, unfortunately.

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Windows users: stop asking for plugins. (url="http://"http://www.aznt.com/EVN/EVNEW/")Make one yourself.(/url)
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Andcarne

Can the desc just be blank and have the movie load instead?

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Dr. Trowel

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Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
**Hmm...the hardest part is getting the text to fade rather than just disappearing. You might have to abandon this effect, unfortunately.

**

I don't know a thing about Flash, but.... Instead of fading the text itself, will either QT or SWF let you put a black layer in front of the scrolling text that has a gradient going from fully opaque at the top and bottom of the screen to fully transparent in the middle?

SpacePirate

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Originally posted by Dr. Trowel:
**I don't know a thing about Flash, but.... Instead of fading the text itself, will either QT or SWF let you put a black layer in front of the scrolling text that has a gradient going from fully opaque at the top and bottom of the screen to fully transparent in the middle?

**

That would work great for flash- good idea.

~ SP

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orcaloverbri9

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Originally posted by Dr. Trowel:
I don't know a thing about Flash, but.... Instead of fading the text itself, will either QT or SWF let you put a black layer in front of the scrolling text that has a gradient going from fully opaque at the top and bottom of the screen to fully transparent in the middle?

Actually, I thought of that, but there's one minor thing: the entire line starts to darken. I can think a way around this, but it would totally obliderate any chance of taking advantage of the "tween frames" feature of Flash. And I really don't want to do it without it, especially considering the nature of my idea. Of course, we could always just forget about that minor detail, since it would probably look better the way Dr. Trowel described anyway. I'll take a look in Flash and see if I can find a transparency feature.

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The programmer's code of entomology: there's always another bug.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who have friends.
Windows users: stop asking for plugins. (url="http://"http://www.aznt.com/EVN/EVNEW/")Make one yourself.(/url)
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