Cinematics

[Tarzan]

How does one make cinematic bars as a map is loading? I tried some scripting commands that should have done it, but it didn't seem to do anything. I was using (cinematic_show_letterbox <boolean>) and some other assorted commands. And yes, I did make sure to include the camera_control true line...

any ideas? BTW... this is for a multiplayer map if that makes a difference.

[Inferno]

(script startup scriptname
(cinematic_start)
(sleep 200)
(cinematic_stop)
)

that would make the movie bars stay up for around 5 seconds.


btw it dosent matter scripting works just fine in MP. it dosent sync properly but it works.

[Con]

cinematic_show_letterbox should work just fine, not sure why it wont for you.

[Tarzan]

How unusual... this script didn't do diddly-squat - there was more... that's why it's not complete... but actually, none of it happened at all. I was pretty pissed.

(script startup special_fx
    
    (camera_control true)
    (show_hud false)
    (cinematic_show_letterbox true)
    (fade_in 0.0 0.0 0.0 116)
    (cinematic_show_letterbox false)

And as a side note... how do you tell the engine what to set as the title? I assume you can do it as HUD help text or a chapter title... But what format does the <cutscene_title> need to be in for this command: (cinematic_set_title <cutscene_title>) ??

[Gamerkd16]

You can assign the chapters/titles in the scenario tag. Then you need to assign it a unicode_string_list.

[Tarzan]

'k - that sounds simple enough... and what about a watermark like CMT did with their SPv2 Beta?

[Inferno]

you mean like a bit of transparent text at the bottom that says "beta build" or what not?


easy just make a cutscene chapter title that lasts for 9999 seconds and make and in the color for the text make the A 100 instead of 255

(im pretty sure A is transparency)