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@refl3ks Thanx to @HMart there is a silhouette option now: Add this to the material file: Decreasing the resolution and bitrate seems to help a lot with preformance, also the video length matters.

@HMart That sounds promessing. Is there a website where I can find all these opengl blend options that work for TDM?

@Geep Doesn't seem to do anything indeed ...

@STiFU That not a bad idea : ) A wiki can always be made once it's all sorted out.

@Geep Seems like the hickups are the same with a transparent and non-transparent screen, also framerate is the same. @grayman I tried converting the Owl to 480p 16:9 and then I notice NO hickups anymore, and the quality doesn't seem to be changed in game, so that's good news!

That got really wrong : D Also there are these hickups ... Seems these video screen fx (indeed @stgatilov) draw a lot of recources. I Looked at the fps in my diorama map, and is was 13fps, facing the diorama, when I turned around (hickupy) it got to 60fps. So be carefull!

Exactly .. that sucks .. but I might have cunning a plan to solve that, but I doubt if having a camera "seeing" the video in a seperate room and showing it on a Camera Gui will solve it ...

Hmm ... I found out that I get hickups looking around, when walking/running around a room with 1 videoscreen in it. With the 55 second OwlLoop it's far worse then with the one second goat loop, where It's barely noticable, but it's also there. @grayman I was just gonna post this. Can you try running and looking around in your map and see if hickups appear?

@refl3ks The problem with silhouettes is that they are usualy black .. and that is the color that gets fully transparent, but you could use the non-transparent with a background behind the silhouette. You have to animate the silhouette in the video already, since the background (usually) is stationary. But, there are a lot of things thinkable within the possabilities.

@HMart Well, making alpha masks for each frame and so on sounds complicated and I didn't get the material sugessted there to work BUT ... I did find a way to make the video transparent in a way that no stange things happen when there is a skybox in the background, with "blend add" !! So that makes the material a lot better! @grayman Improved material file for the transparent video: If you want to replace the code in the mtr you're already using, without changing video name and texture, use the following: For everyone who wants the video material for non-transparent and transparent video download it below: videoscreen.mtr

@grayman Let's test preformance with 1 video and multiple screens in a test setup: 252 screens - 23 fps 18 screens - 36 fps 6 screens - 37 fps 0 screens - 40 fps //Since it's the same video, having 1 or some screens doesn't really matter it seems. 4x6 screens, 4 different videos - 17fps 4x1 screen, 4 different videos - 17fps //Using more videos ( in the same location?) really seems to be a bad idea.

@grayman Never heard of that and I certainly don't think it would be something that can be done with an mp4. In a video editor you can, but you can't export it as such. Have you tried putting more patches behind eachother? Left is 1 patch, right 6 patches 0.125 behind eachother

@stgatilov That is also something to keep in mind. Maybe if you want to have 4 different small scenes you can make a "multiview" setup so only 1 video is playing, and you can enlarge/shift the texture to the show the desired scene.

Delete "blend gl_dst_alpha, gl_one" from the material file: video/video { qer_editorimage textures/editor/video nonsolid translucent noshadows { videoMap loop video/video.mp4 // with separate sound file remoteRenderMap 512 288 red 1 green 1 blue 1 scale 1, 1 translate 1, 1 } } You can also copy the code, paste it below below and call it video/video1 and link to video/video1.mp4 If you want to use more then one video you also have to make more of these materials. > !!See @stgatilov's comment above!!

Woman standing in front of a window with a non-transparent video screen. video

You can stretch the texture a bit I guess ..

@grayman I saw that it doesn't like the skybox, and put that in the edited Owl post also. If you find something to make this work, that would be very nice. Also I found that when no light is hitting the patch you see no image at al. Maybe that could also be fixed in the material file. I only fumbled around with it not really knowing what I was doing : ) As for the sound, I didn't expect it to play and forgot to remove it from the video. In @Geep 's wiki there should be a separate audio channel added also. https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Full-Screen_Video_Cutscenes

@grayman Ah ok, in the download the audio is still there. I don't know. I got that video from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2YeATxQyw

@grayman You mean in the goat video, before it goes moonwalking? Thats from @R Soul's button:

@HMart You are totally right. I can see that owl sitting somewhere in the distance, where you can't reach it indeed, but that goat, even if it's a 3d goat, I wouldn't put in a mission. You can ofc record a scene from your map with OBS and use that. About shadows; in the case of this transparent material: black is transparent.

An other example of what can be done with thes transparent video screens. It doesn't like skyboxes though (see end of video). video A loop of the owl, shoud be downloadable here: Owl Loop Otherwise here: OwlLoop Attached the .mtr file I use. Just put it in your materials folder and make a video folder and put a video named video.mp4 in there. Then make a 16:9 patch and give it the video texture. videoscreentransparent.mtr

Transparent video screens: video

@grayman It's lame I know, but something that can be done with looping video's on a transparent videoscreen : )

Videoscreen goat ^^ https://streamable.com/bvftb

I have, with the wiki of @Geep, made a video playing in game ... but I can't find a way to get the video to loop ... Does anyone know how to do that? Here is my setup: https://easyupload.io/7g1ci6 // Never mind, I found it .. just add "loop" in the material file: videoMap loop video/video.mp4