Starting Movies

[Valiant]

Hi folks 

I would have a question about starting movies. Does anybody know the exact offsets of SOA and TOB starting movies in BGMain.exe (TOB of course) ?? All of them. I would like to change the starting movies to something else, call it a little experiment... I know that most of the movies are hardcoded in exe file (except flythrough movies I guess, correct me if I´m wrong), so I need to patch the correct offsets.

Also, do I have to put the new movies into the same biff as the original starting ones, or create a new biff will be enough??

Thanks 

[Kulyok]

Hey! Ever since I've seen your first post, I wanted to ask: you're THE Valiant, right? Tower of Deception, cool movie and everything?
In both cases, welcome to PPG user list, and thank you for registering.


As for your question, alas, I've never worked with exe patching, but I hope other folks have. I wonder if Classic Adventurers changes the starting movies - it is a total conversion mod, after all.

[the bigg]

Seems like these ones to me:

COPY_EXISTING ~bgmain.exe~ ~bgmain.exe~
   WRITE_ASCII 0x7429c8 "DEATHAND" #8  // bislogo
   WRITE_ASCII 0x7429d0 "DEATHAND" #12 // bwdragon
   WRITE_ASCII 0x7429dc "DEATHAND" #8  // wotc
   WRITE_ASCII 0x742b70 "DEATHAND" #12 // intro15f - SoA start
   WRITE_ASCII 0x742bb0 "DEATHAND" #8  // intro    - ToB start


The exact BIFF file doesn't matter.

In general, you can open bgmain.exe in an hex editor and look for the file name if you know it.

[Valiant]

I wanted to ask: you're THE Valiant, right?

That I am    And thanks for warm welcome... About the Tower Of Deception, now I cooperate mostly with Razfallow, from Sigil forum (Czech forum).

So I must take a look on Classic Adventures, then... Still, if somebody know the answer, I would appreciate it.

EDIT: the bigg was much faster than me, thanks...

[Jarno Mikkola]

I wonder if Classic Adventurers changes the starting movies - it is a total conversion mod, after all.

For CA, nope, although they do other BGMain.exe changes like the "product version" number, but no movies... but the biggs answer might help.

And yes, welcome Valiant.

[Valiant]

Thanks Jarno, but I figured out that myself, already... CA downloaded and checked, only small exe patches.

And thanks for welcome, too...