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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
Your idea sounds a lot like my Girl In Every Port application. I could modify it to do what you are looking for but with movies instead of pictures. The only problem I see would be finding enough intro movies to make it worth doing programmatically.
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Yes, GIEP was what got me to thinking about this.
[[[ BTW, while I am at it, I haven't gotten GIEP to work for me. I thought I correctly followed the installation instructions, and set Hot Key as CTRL-ALT-G and run minimized. When I start SH4, go to career, start new career, at what point should I use the Hot Key? ...I've tried right after I get my orders to report to Pearl, before I hit the Proceed button, but when I get to the office, I have the default captain's pic showing.
I've tried starting Giep before I start SH4, but I get an error message saying "error copying picture into game". I've tried starting SH4 and then Alt-ESC and then running Giep from desktop shortcut but I get the same error. Any ideas what i am doing wrong? ]]]
As for the "Movie batch Mod", I can't set a timeline yet, but I have a very good lead on getting a lot of WWII sub footage such as the 1950's "Silent Service" TV series, and excerpts of other Hollywoodized dramatic footage are available. My concept would be to prepare a set of 2-3 minute long clips which could be put in a folder for random selection. If I were to create 15-20 of such clips, that might provide a good bit of variety upon starting SH4...enough to get one's 'immersion-adrenaline' pumping before jumping into the game.
It would be a sizable initial download, maybe 300MB initially, but I could add movie clips a few at a time afterwards as I produce them. Eventually, if there is interest, I could write a tutorial on how to make the clips and others might want to produce some of their own to drop into the "Random" Folder and/or offer for downloading.
This is a long term project...merely in its concept forumulation stage at the moment.... Therefore my question about the feasibliity of batch programming.