Modding: Custom Intro Movie and Splash Screen

This guide will show you three things: making your own intro movie, making a custom loading screen, and a workaround to problems that arise when making an intro video. As with all custom content, extract your .DAT or use Modder's Edition before attempting this or any tutorial.

## **Custom Intro Movie**

Tools Required:

Video Editor, RAD Video Tools

Step 1: Create or download your chosen video file, and save it in MP4 format.

Step 2: Download the RAD Video Tools, if you have not already.

Step 3: Open up the tool and select your video file; then press the "Bink it!" button to convert it to a ".bik" file.

Step 4: Rename your video file (whilst retaining the new .bik file extension) to "Bionicle\_IntroV3\_PC\_1109" (names of other intro videos will work too, but this one is used for the narrative intro movie and is the most obvious one to replace. Do not include the quotation marks.)

Step 5: Place it into your "Movies" folder, replacing the file already there if so.

On start-up, your mod will now display the custom intro movie!

### Workaround To Copyright Text Overlay

Tools Required:

Text Editor, Image Editor

If no intro movies are being used, copyright text does not display on the splash screen. However, if you are using an intro movie, it does. If you have also modified the splash screen to add custom text, this will create an overlapping issue with the copyright text and your splash screen. This is, however, simple to fix.

Step 1: Navigate to the "gui" folder, and locate "strings\_bio.csv".

Step 2: Open "strings\_bio.csv" with a text editor like Notepad++, **NOT** Excel. This is the default program to open it with in Windows, but Excel does not correctly save the file so you must use a simpler text editor to modify the file.

Step 3: Navigate to the entries beginning "WORLD\_LEGAL\_1" through to "WORLD\_LEGAL\_7", and after the first comma in each entry, remove the contents of text between quotation marks and commas. Once all is removed, it should appear like this:

```
"WORLD_LEGAL_1","","","","","","","","","",""

```

```
"WORLD_LEGAL_2","","","","","","","","","",""

```

```
"WORLD_LEGAL_3","","","","","","","","","",""

```

```
"WORLD_LEGAL_4","","","","","","","","","",""

```

```
"WORLD_LEGAL_5","","","","","","","","","",""

```

```
"WORLD_LEGAL_6","","","","","","","","","",""

```

```
"WORLD_LEGAL_7","","","","","","","","","",""

```

You can also copy this text but double check formatting is the same as the image displayed.

Step 4: Save your changes (again, using a text editor, not Excel.)

Step 5: Navigate to "gui\gfx" and open "lego\_logo.dds". Make this DDS completely empty and transparent, and then save.

Step 6: Navigate to "gui\gfx\splashscreen" and open "bink.dds". Make this DDS completely empty and transparent, and then save.

When you start up your mod with a custom splash screen and intro movie, it will now display both without overlapping issues.

## **Custom Splash Screen**

Tools Required:

Image Editor

Step 1: Navigate to "gui\gfx\splashscreen" within your Bionicle Heroes folder.

Step 2: Locate "pegi.dds".

Step 3: Open "pegi.dds", make your changes, and then save.

Upon start-up, your mod will display a custom splash screen before the menu!

## Tips & Notes

* The Movies folder was removed from Modder's Edition, but you can create it in the main folder should you choose to use it.

* The pegi.dds file is always shown on startup, as it is used as a loading screen. Make it look interesting so your mod's users get a good impression!