Suggestion for Backgrounds

[z_killemall]

While making the Military Base background the other day I came with an idea that maybe is possible to add in a later version:

Do you remember games like Tekken or Virtua Fighter where the camera was moving in circles instead of a fixed background? I don't talk about making 3D backgrounds since it'd be probably hard as hell to code (if possible) and resource eating, but here's what came to my mind: pre-render a 3D or 2D background and make a video where the last frame is exactly like the first frame and the camera controls the video giving the moving feeling. In case it's possible it probably should be a standard (number of frames and length for example) for the videos used, thought.

I'll upload a video to explain what I mean as soon as it finishes rendering to show better what I mean.
Cheers

[Rod F]

it's an interestng idea.. however it lacks simplicity for everyone to make them...

they could be an option of a style of backgrounds. however it will probably suck a lot of CPU having a 'maybe' contantly rotating background that is handled frame-by-frame.

[Quake]

I don´t know how hard or simple this is but...it would be great if you could make your own background inside rumblah like short fuse uploading a picture and selcting and separating the floor area from the rest of the background.It doesn´t seems to be very difficult for m but you may know

[Rod F]

Yes, I'm planning on adding Backgrounds to the shortfuse idea. When I get the time to do so it will be one of the first things i'll add to the engine.

[z_killemall]

it's an interestng idea.. however it lacks simplicity for everyone to make them...

they could be an option of a style of backgrounds. however it will probably suck a lot of CPU having a 'maybe' contantly rotating background that is handled frame-by-frame.

In fact I was thinking about something like a flash video player, I can see in youtube-like sites that Flash seems to be capable to move through videos without eating a lot of resources.

However, this kind of video tends to be extremely compressed and in order to have a decent image quality while the video is paused in any frame the video bitrate should be a bit high, maybe that could eat too much CPU, thought.