Proper way to add a background movie behind sprites?

[AHAKuo]

I have already tried to do this by adding this command:

image movie = Movie(size=(1920, 1080), xpos=0, ypos=0, xanchor=0, yanchor=0)

play movie "/videos/corruptedscene.avi" loop

show movie with dissolve

After adding that code in, everything was working ok. However, let's say I were to save the game and exit while a video was playing in the background by that command, the next time around when I load up the save, the video wouldn't be there anymore. It's as if the game code doesn't remember playing it.

Is that supposed to happen?

Or is the code faulty?

Big thanks!

[irredeemable]

That's not how the movie displayable works. In your defense, the documentation isn't exactly clear on this and many of the examples you'll find elsewhere are just plain wrong (I didn't realize this until recently either and my game uses movies extensively). The 'play' statement doesn't take the name of a displayable, it takes the name of a channel. Basically 'image movie..." and "show movie..." are doing nothing here as you haven't specified a file in the definition of the displayable, your movie is only playing because the play statement has been told to play a particular file on the channel 'movie'.

This code should work for what you're attempting:

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image whatever = Movie(play="/videos/curruptedscene.avi")

label start:
    show whatever
    "Save and reload here, movie should still be playing."

[AHAKuo]

That's not how the movie displayable works. In your defense, the documentation isn't exactly clear on this and many of the examples you'll find elsewhere are just plain wrong (I didn't realize this until recently either and my game uses movies extensively). The 'play' statement doesn't take the name of a displayable, it takes the name of a channel. Basically 'image movie..." and "show movie..." are doing nothing here as you haven't specified a file in the definition of the displayable, your movie is only playing because the play statement has been told to play a particular file on the channel 'movie'.

This code should work for what you're attempting:

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image whatever = Movie(play="/videos/curruptedscene.avi")

label start:
    show whatever
    "Save and reload here, movie should still be playing."

OMG! Thank you so much! This is perfect! I can't thank you enough