Attract videos, Mamewah & snaps

[Scoobie]

I just installed the attract videos and let me start by saying, these are awesome!  

Now, is there a way to have the attract videos and snaps show up in MW (in different artwork #'s of course)?  Since there are not attract videos for all the games (this would be WAY too much work ), I'd like to have the snaps show in a different artwork number.

When I have videos and snaps listed under different artwork #'s, only the video show up in MW and the area for snaps is a black screen.

Are both possible?  If so, what should I change?

Thanks!

[papaschtroumpf]

what I did is that I have both snaps and videos attached to the same artwork number.
This way when you scroll down the list it only shows snaps, but when you stop on a game is starts showing the video instead of the artwork ("over" the artwork). The delay before the movie starts is configurable in the ini file. I find 2s to be just about right.

Sorry, nit quite the naswer to the question you were asking but you might want to try it that way if you can't get it working the way you want to.

[Scoobie]

what I did is that I have both snaps and videos attached to the same artwork number.
This way when you scroll down the list it only shows snaps, but when you stop on a game is starts showing the video instead of the artwork ("over" the artwork).

How did you do this exactly?  I tried:

artwork_1_image_path                      c:\mame\previews
artwork_2_image_path                      c:\mame\marquees
artwork_3_image_path                      c:\mame\cabinets
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\mame\snaps

This didn't work, so then I renamed "artwork 1" above back to "artwork 4", then physically moved "artworkd 4" over "artwork 1" in the layout designer.

This also didn't work...
Help?  

[Minwah]

How did you do this exactly?

Easier than you think:

artwork_1_image_path                      c:\mame\snaps
artwork_2_image_path                      c:\mame\marquees
artwork_3_image_path                      c:\mame\cabinets

(down a bit)

movie_preview_path                        c:\mame\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1

The last bit is the crucial one - just tells MW to display the movies in Artwork #1 (after a couple of seconds - this can be set in delay_before_movie_preview within mamewah.ini).

[Scoobie]

That was it, thanks!