My first release for this Halloween event is a very useful little program that my pal has cooked up for me. It all started when I tried to incorporate my intro video I created into mugen. The video was about 13 minutes long and when splitted into images that Fighter Factory could work with, it always ended up crasing Fighter Factory because the share amount of images (we are talking tens of thousands of images). So then I talked to my buddy who created this little program in Visual Basic that runs ANY program and when it's done runs ANOTHER program. This enabled me to first run my intro video file in fullscreen, quiting the video and then run Mugen, thus creating a nifty workaround running intros in mugen when Fighter Factory fails. Plus you get the added bonus to use this program in other scenarios on your computer if you like.
To download the AppChain program click the following link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vdjamp3gzbvr8h0/AppChain.zip?dl=0
Now let's start with the instructions.
1. Unzip the AppChain.zip file and place the two files, AppChain.config and AppChain.exe in your Mugen executable directory. This is very important, otherwise you will have a difficult time trying to execute Mugen.exe because AppChain then needs to know where arguments (mugen.cfg) for Mugen is located. By placing both files in the same place as Mugen.exe you will save yourself a headache.
2. Edit the AppChain.config file by right-clicking it and then use Notepad to open it up or better use Notepad++
3. The line containing "command1" is the first command the program will run and the line containing "arguments1" is what the program will do when it's done. The line containing "command2" is the first command the second program will run and the line containing "arguments2" is what the second program will do when it's done. If you need more than 2 programs in a chain please feel free to add more command and arguments lines by copy and paste the existing ones and changing them to "command3", "arguments3", "command4", arguments4" and so on.
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I pasted my setup below as an example so you get a feeling how I did it. First I pointed out the location of vlc.exe and run it under "command1" and then under "arguments1" I told vlc.exe (you don't need to use VLC, use any program that runs videos) to run my intro file Intro.mp4 in fullscreen (-f) and when the video is done playing quit vlc.exe. Then I told the program to run mugen.exe by pointing out the complete location of mugen.exe under "command2". Note that I have no value for "arguments2" as I don't need one because nothing has to be done AFTER Mugen starts.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="command1" value="C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"/>
<add key="arguments1" value="Intro.mp4 -f vlc://quit"/>
<add key="command2" value="C:\Users\merculix\Desktop\Mugen\Mugen_Multiverse_-_Cross_Generation_of_Fighters\mugen.exe"/>
<add key="arguments2" value=""/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>
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4. Save the AppChaing.config when you're done.
5. Double-click AppChain.exe and voila, your intro starts first and after that Mugen starts.
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