What an interesting Unity-week... Certainly not the first controversial decision they make, but since it doesn't directly affect ATP, I'll see how things progress and perhaps return to the subject later.
Meanwhile, it’s time to once again introduce something completely meaningless with absolutely no effect on the gameplay: Mauno, the flying mediacube, who so far has entertained the audience with error screens and static, is now capable of showing videos. Its favorite subject are clips about the old ATP versions.
I haven’t figured out what Mauno’s displays are supposed to be. They’re really neither film projectors or TV screens; perhaps some kind of weird film-TV screens or something. But it doesn’t matter: as I’m after the early 1900’s style, I added a vignette film grain to the videos by loosely following the ideas presented in this great article.
Videos are rendered to texture by using Unity’s VideoPlayer-component, which is surprisingly straightforward to use. There are some potential compatibility issues with certain platforms. Importing video clips by using VD8 encoding should maximize compatibility, but I have to do some testing on this, especially on Linux.
