i am trying to include a movie at the beginning of my game called "Initial.wmv" and i have used the following script:

// main game loop
while(1)
{
if(gid01_level_state != gid01_level_loaded)
{
freeze_mode = 1; // pause the game
while(gid01_level_state != gid01_level_loaded) { wait(1); }
freeze_mode = 0; // resume the game
if (vid_played == 0) {
media_play(video_start, NULL, 80);
vid_played = 1; }

}
wait(1);
}


and also included a string which defines video_start as the movie file and also declared the vid_played variable. When i load the level, it runs as normal but without the video.

can anybody point me in the right direction ?

I dont know about the Template system but this worked for me;

var movie_handle;

function play_opener()// opening movie
{

movie_handle = media_play("titleintro.avi",null,100);
wait(32);
freeze_mode = 0;

}

...and in Main before freeze mode = 0;

play_opener();

Hope this helps,

Cheers.

ahhh damn this is frustrating me. when i tried this the same thing happened as before when i used my code. if there was something wrong with the code i thought it would get an error but apart from that the game runs normal :S:S

so confusing, does anybody else have any ideas ?

Where are you placing the movie? It will not run from a path. It must be in the same folder as your main wdl code. Hope that helps.