My first post here... Is there any way of displaying video inside my level, such as a TV monitor or computer screen showing a movie? I have tried everything that I could imagine, with no positive results. Thanks for any help that you guys could give me..

yes, it is possible (needs the commercial or pro edition).

from the manual:

Quote:

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Code:

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// Play film"news.avi" on the tv_model entity with maximum volume
media_play("news.avi",bmap_for_entity(tv_model,0),100); 

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Edit:
with the pro edition, you can even render a diferent view onto an entity or sprite.

Thanks a lot, man. I think I should´ve read the manual with a little more attention

Forgive my ignorance since I am a complete newbie as far as scripts go (I´m a 3d animator), but, I tried to include the script that calls the video to the entity´s texture bitmap in the main script, and also tried to put the code directly in it, before de "main" function. But it doesn´t work. Maybe it has to be attached directly to the entity? If so, how do I do it?

you can put it in the entity's action, like this:

Code:

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action your_entity_action
{

// Play film"news.avi" on the entity with maximum volume
media_play("news.avi",bmap_for_entity(my,0),100); 

// do all the stuff your entity does
// ...
}

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or you can assign a pointer to the entity you want and then play the movie any time, like in the main function:

Code:

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entity* tv_model;
function main()
{
//something, something...

level_load("whatever.wmb");
wait(3);
// Play film"news.avi" on the tv_model entity with maximum volume
media_play("news.avi",bmap_for_entity(tv_model,0),100);

//etc, etc, etc...
}

action your_entity_action
{
tv_model = my;

// do all the stuff your entity does
// ...
}

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I got it to work now! I´m no programmer at all, far from it, but I´m finally starting to get the hang of it. Quite fun, to tell the truth.
Now, it there any way to limit the range of the video´s audio track? Because now, once the video starts playing, even players that are not close by or even in the same room can hear it (it´s a multiplayer level)
Thanks a lot for all your help.

hm, i don't know if there's a direct way of doing that, but one way to do it would be a function checking the player distance and adjusting the volume with media_tune() accordingly.
another way would be have the sound in a separate file from the video and then playing the sound with ent_playsound()...

Yeah, that´s what I ended up doing, separating audio and video, and starting them separately. The only problem that I´m getting now it that there´s a tiny delay between them while playing, and of course they start to get out-of-sync after a while. But I suspect that´s a hardware problem, since the delay is different among several machines, from almost none to several seconds.
Thanks a lot again for your help.