Memory cost of FlipBooks going insanely high? Making animated Title Screen etc

[Manatee]

@IronicParadox

Just make an FMV and play it through a widget that covers the screen… If you want to have it like an animated background, but then still have selection gfx for things like option selection, as you scroll up and down over things, then do that in it’s own layer on top of it. It’s ridiculous to expect decent performance out of 300 frames of HD PNG+alpha…

Thanks, ill give it a try. I didnt think of flipbooks requiring all of their frames worth of performance, since 1 texture is visible at a time anyway. But guess it makes sense that all frames need to be loaded in Vram all the time anyway.

And uncompressed UI-sprites seem to be the heaviest. I tried to make them Power of two 1024 with compression and they would fit memory, but the quality is way too low, especially when the rest of the screen is 3d grahics and resolution is 1440+.

Any recommendations for fmv formats? I tried avi and unreal media files couldnt open them, then .Mov but it displayed black. Ill get them to work Im sure, but before I do more bad choices, I better decide a good format from the beginning and use it.