Is there a way to play a video inside a level - eg. have a tv screen playing a video inside the actual level. I know how to do an animated sprite but I wanted to play an actual video file inside the level. I seem to remeber seeing a tutorial showing how to do this but can't find it now.
Please help!

Paul

I've never done it, but I would imagine it involves the pro only feature render to texture. I don't know if turning the movie file into an animated sprite would work or if you'd run into a huge, unusable or inefficient for use animated sprite file, though. Maybe, with luck render to texture will trickle down to commercial when A7 arrives (c'mon Conitec that would be great, but what would we have to sacrifice to get this...BSP had to go pro to get unlimited physics in commercial).

you can do a avi or mpeg on an entity (like tv screen), you dont need pro, it can be done with a script. look in help search for media_play, it gives a scripted example for it, and one of the AUM's give code for it too.

Thanks for the help. Found a short example in AUM29 of playing an avi on a sprite which I've tried. I imagine I could do the same thing on an entity in the level.

That's right, I was thinking of render to texture and realtime monitor display within the level.