I know halo PC can. The videos when you start Halo PC. Those are bik files being played. Can I have those be played at a certain point in a SP map?

Halo CE can play them at the start; but you can't script them to play at any moment

Dang. Oh well.

You can script them in apparently with Open Sauce, though I have no idea how to use that.

Oh, would anyone have to have it installed to play whatever map is made with it?

I would imagine that would be the case, at least the DLL files.

Just make a box that takes up the whole screen and give it an animated texture which is the BIK you want, and have a cutscene start andthe camera fix itself at the box.
Shading problems probable.

Not possible.

I quit Halo.

the only real way you can make movement is by doing like a flip book with a slide show of Tiff. files changing back and forth.

Yes, that would happen to be the case.

Edit: UNLESS you use clever scripting. For example, use a script to set f0 to, say 1. if it changes to 1 then OS is running. If it's 0 then no OS. Then, you don't call any OS-Specific globals or functions.
Edited by Dwood on Jan 20, 2011 at 05:26 PM

it can play bik files. Just provide appropriate video settings and such and the least you can do it change the intro video. But I don't think halo custom edition is set to play the bik video.

hhmm

You can change the intro definitely.

I got the BIK intro from CoD4, and renamed it to gearbox.bik, and was able to get it to play.

http://www.xfire.com/video/1cd5af/

HCE doesn't include the BIK videos by default for the intro, so you can copy it from the HPC.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TMT6D0BW
download this and rename it into bungie.bik
its Halo reach`s splash
and you also need the bink dll which you can find it in Halo PC dic or i can just upload if you want..

i tried that and i keep getting an exception everytime i load it up.

yeah,i see that
it seems like i have to change the settings of the recording to be the same as the original file... maybe then it would work.

What is the size of the orignal files?

binkw32.dll 367 KB
bungie.bik 8.88 MB

odd i dropped my vid below 8.88 and it still didnt work.

How exactly can I make that Reach bungie.bik play on custom edition startup? I get exceptions and stuff.

i was able to make H2 intro work
but with low resolution... il upload it soon

Its because the Halo Reach one is higher resolution than the normal ones.

I'm assuming I just need to copy the bink dll from halo PC, put it into the CE folder, and put one of these .bik files into the Halo ce folder. And that it needs to be named bungie.bik.
That's what I did and got an exception, just want to know if I'm doin' it wrong.

You`re doing everything allright.
i just need to know which resolution i have to apply to the video to prevent the game from crashing...
i guess il just check the original file properties
EDIT:
I checked it- it works :D
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=POAQOJPM
Edited by Xander92 on Jan 22, 2011 at 07:25 PM

so wat eaxactly was the resolution?

Because nothing happened to the bik format after 10 years right?

The formats are entirely different. Such as the halo reach credits which have alpha channels.
Yes, alpha transparent videos.

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Awesome, but what does the ending.bik do?

^ that's after the credits.. Or in Halo Pc/xbox case, the scene where the monitor flys away from Halo's debris cheerfully humming away..

too lazy to play thru d40 and or dowload bink player again did the eding.bik get modified?

well, maybe you can try to make it like a flip book, here you may try to google search and find some useful tool. You may try to visit my homepage in my signature and get the software!
Edited by merryflip on Nov 5, 2012 at 09:07 PM
Edited by merryflip on Nov 5, 2012 at 09:08 PM

Get outta here.

Dear Sir, please look no further:

May I remind you that that post was made in early 2011?

lol I used to have the Reach one. Too bad I lost it in the hard drive crash.