cshawnsmith
10-31-09, 11:26 AM
Howdy everyone. Although this is my first post, I've been a hidden lurker for awhile now. I'm a 3d hobbyist, and love to see all the wonderful creations everyone's done here. Hopefully one day I'll post some of my work, but for now, I'd thought I'd drop a quick and easy way to make your Zbrush movie (or any movie for that matter) into a screensaver. (Hope this is the right place to post this :o
You will need a Zbrush video, and the Bink/Smacker tool you can download from www.radgametools.com.
Create your Zbrush movie, and then load the Bink tool. Your first screen will look something like this:
step1.jpg
Navigate to your movie, and click the Bink It button at the bottom left. The next screen will give you your compression and size attributes. step2.jpg
Try different compression rates to get a happy medium between file size and quality. In the example image above, the original file size was around 30 MB, and when binked at 15%, it dropped to somewhere around 5 MB. Then just click the Bink button at the upper right, and wait for it to finish.
Next, we want to turn the Bink video into an executable file. Select the Binked file and then click the Advanced Play button from the first screenshot. The next panel will look like this:
step3.jpg
You'll want to make certain you loop it for infinite playback, or else the screensaver will exit on you. You can play with the other settings here too. Then just click on Make EXE.
In Windows, navigate to the executable file, and change the extension to .scr, and drop that file in your System32 folder. Load up your screensaver, and voila!
If you name multiple movie files 1.avi, 2.avi, etc, Bink will detect it's a series, so you can attach multiple movies and compile into a single. The only drawback to this is that there won't be any settings options in the screensaver control panel. Also be aware that the larger the screensaver size, the longer it might take to load.
Enjoy!
You will need a Zbrush video, and the Bink/Smacker tool you can download from www.radgametools.com.
Create your Zbrush movie, and then load the Bink tool. Your first screen will look something like this:
step1.jpg
Navigate to your movie, and click the Bink It button at the bottom left. The next screen will give you your compression and size attributes. step2.jpg
Try different compression rates to get a happy medium between file size and quality. In the example image above, the original file size was around 30 MB, and when binked at 15%, it dropped to somewhere around 5 MB. Then just click the Bink button at the upper right, and wait for it to finish.
Next, we want to turn the Bink video into an executable file. Select the Binked file and then click the Advanced Play button from the first screenshot. The next panel will look like this:
step3.jpg
You'll want to make certain you loop it for infinite playback, or else the screensaver will exit on you. You can play with the other settings here too. Then just click on Make EXE.
In Windows, navigate to the executable file, and change the extension to .scr, and drop that file in your System32 folder. Load up your screensaver, and voila!
If you name multiple movie files 1.avi, 2.avi, etc, Bink will detect it's a series, so you can attach multiple movies and compile into a single. The only drawback to this is that there won't be any settings options in the screensaver control panel. Also be aware that the larger the screensaver size, the longer it might take to load.
Enjoy!