I'm thinking of removing this feature from v1.3. I don't think I've seen anyone using it (but I haven't played many mods). It's purpose was to give the gamers a short preview of the map before they decide to play it or not.

Are people using it?

I cant imagine that it greatly increases file size, so why cut it. If you do give it the ax, what would you put in its place, or would you just slim down 1.3 to the basics.

Since I lost the source, I'm trying to recreate v1.3. Getting movies running was one of the harder things to do. I have some of the movie code from the older Era Mod, but it's still incomplete.

Not having the preview window means there's more room for buttons. Though, I'm not sure if some of the buttons I'm thinking of will work out (so I won't get your hopes up by telling you guys what they are yet). Of course, I could also just squish the movie to make room, but why bother if no ones uses it?

[RDH]Zerted wrote:Since I lost the source, I'm trying to recreate v1.3. Getting movies running was one of the harder things to do. I have some of the movie code from the older Era Mod, but it's still incomplete.

Not having the preview window means there's more room for buttons. Though, I'm not sure if some of the buttons I'm thinking of will work out (so I won't get your hopes up by telling you guys what they are yet). Of course, I could also just squish the movie to make room, but why bother if no ones uses it?

AFAIK only person who used it was Mav for the taris contest. All for axing it.

I never saw anyone using it, so I think you can cut it.

If it's a lot of work for little gain, cut it. It's a neat feature to have available, but nobody really uses it because of the added work and added file size that goes into the mod.

I think it's fine to axe the preview movies, I never see anybody using it (I don't and probably never would myself)

May I ask, will you be making some sort of WIP or how does this work? I have some suggestions but I know this isn't the place to post them.

I'm no where near 50% done and there's a chance I'll stop and start working on Achron (a time travelling RTS) instead.

If you want to give me suggestions, you can contact me however you want. Though, I'm far behind in responding to people's emails and I still haven't put my website back online.