Is it possible to put images on a TV screen within game

[undercoverbrother 10]

G'day everyone,

Something tells me this is maybe a little to ambitious or may not be possible, but can you create a video or image to play on a TV screen or any other surface within the game.

Cheers,

[nuxil 2]

wait until patch 1.56. then you will be able to make dialogs playing videos. ogv format.

at the moment there is no way to create a video ingame.

only way to simulate videos ingame now is to make x numbers of images and make a dialog that cycles through them.

maybe its possible doing the same on the tv with settexture but i doubt it.

Edited November 29, 2010 by nuxil

[undercoverbrother 10]

Thanks anyway, and where would I find patch 1.56 when it comes out?

Edited December 1, 2010 by undercoverbrother

[Egosa-U 10]

...in the interwebzz. :rolleyes:

[DnA 5154]

I'm sorry to say that the 1.56 patch will not allow you to play video on 3D surfaces in the game world ... only in the GUI layer (which still is awesome!).

The only thing you could do is use the setObjectTexture command to apply a dynamic texture to a model which is prepared to work with it. Potentially you can make a simple animation using this command by cycling through textures, as suggested above :)

[[frl]myke 14]

If an object supports setObjectTexture, videos can be displayed although only as a series of switching textures. Used this for the MFD's in the F-16:

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I've made an addon some time ago for ArmA 2 which includes different signs which can be setObjectTexture'd and therefor used as cinema screen.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=8588