loading images during gameplay ? Created 8 years ago2015-08-02 13:54:23 UTC by komagame

Is it possible to load/show pictures(jpeg,bmp,..) in Halflife 1 engine during gameplay ?!

I'm working on an horror mod needing to show some "subliminal" images to the player in order to scare him

Like, show them on-screen?
I guess you can use a trigger_camera to take control over the player's view for a split second and put it in a room with the image as a texture on the wall.

Yeah, basically what Dr.Orange said. I don't know if you've played the Poke646 mod for half-life, but they did the same thing for screens and notes. The note was just a big texture in a hidden room somewhere in the map and then there was a simply a trigger_cammera looking at the wall with the texture on it.

The player could 'read' the note by placing a piece of paper that was a func_button which then triggered the camera.

You'd have to do the same thing.

I guess that's what they did in the BlackOPS mod; maybe check it out...
http://www.moddb.com/mods/black-ops
It basically has notes and stuff which you can come across in the game, and even a comic type-thing if I remember correctly.
I don't know how it was done, but again something along the lines of what of Urby and Dr. Orange said. Sorry for repetitions

Yeah like everyone else said, they need to be textures within a WAD.
Use a trigger_camera to quickly take over the player's view and point at a textured wall. If the resolution is too low, split the image into multiple textures, and use 4 textures instead of 1.

Other than that, you'll need to make a custom overlay and code it into the gameplay - which is far more time consuming and then you'll need to distribute the custom binaries.

thanks everybody,
pictures must be shown fullscreen to the player.. something similar seen in the movie "HouseOfTheDevil" !

Anyway I'll go the way you said