few questions.

[Frodo81]

Hello to everyone,

I want to make a game like SEGACD's road avenger ( for ones don't know that one then like
dragons lair ) I have nearly all figured out except on how to draw the status bar for the player,
I know 1 way to do it but is going to be hell long as i'm using 25 fps the idea is to draw it on each frame 1 by one with a paint program but sounds nuts to do it this way as later I might want to make it in to HD DVD or what ever in future so how can I do this with a video editor ?

I mean open the video and paste the statusbar in every frame at once ?

I need few status bars with 100% fuel then 95% then 90% untill 0% Fuel.

Hope someone understands me, I have a quicktime on pc and mac and imove but i never used,
also tmpgenc and virtualdub and some other editor may be.

Note: the final video output must be m2v.

I hope the solution is easy and the tools are free.

Oh and about audio does anyone know a website with free wavs ( with no problems related to royalties ) ?

Thanks

[dphirschler]

AviSynth can do it. Check out the following commands/functions:

animate
overlay
stackvertical
pointResize
subtitle

I am thinking first off, you make a function with a blank (black) clip that has a framesize of 720x30. Then you resize it smaller while adding a white border to the right edge. Use the animate command to make it happen over several frames.

If you want to put a number on it, use the subtitle command.

Then you can paste it over the current video using overlay or a combination of crop and stackvertical.


Darryl

[Frodo81]

AviSynth can do it. Check out the following commands/functions:

animate
overlay
stackvertical
pointResize
subtitle

I am thinking first off, you make a function with a blank (black) clip that has a framesize of 720x30. Then you resize it smaller while adding a white border to the right edge. Use the animate command to make it happen over several frames.

If you want to put a number on it, use the subtitle command.

Then you can paste it over the current video using overlay or a combination of crop and stackvertical.


Darryl

Any other altenative to this?

I don't understand and i'm not in the mood of learning another cli program and another programming language

[redwudz]

I would say dphirschler's method is fairly easy, especially if you don't want to pay several hundred euros for a professional program. And please use a more descriptive title in the future for your posts.