Someone explain to me the cutscenes in JK2

[bigDAN456]

Ok, this is what I don't understand, the cutscenes are premade, right? (wrong?) then how come If I change the SP skin of kyle to, say for instance, Desann, then how come all of the cutscenes with kyle are changed to him looking like Desann?

[Xcom]

They are not premade. That's why.

[TheTruePoopoo]

The aren't FMV, they use real time graphics.

[j0shy]

yeah, if uwere to play the second level, the last screen shot with fyyar u would notice that kyle's defualt skin is there in the picture and not whatever u had it to be....

[SingledOut]

its not premade heh. i was playing the demo level and spawned some friendly npcs (about 5 other jedi =P) and at the end when me and jan got in the ship and flew off the jedi i spawned were in the hanger still fighting the stormtroopers.

[Badakku]

but some of them are premade, e.g. when you see the Lady Luck from outside flying to Bespin.

 

The non-premade cutscenes are made with the ICARUS scripting system.

[Darsha Assant]

Thats not right Badakku, if you use noclip and fly outside the level you se the LadyLuck and Lando and Kyle inside so it isnt a fmv!!!!!

[bigDAN456]

I still don't understand!

[Madjai]

Darsha Assant, hes talking about when you see from OUTSIDE of landos ship, not inside when they are talking and kyle sleeps.

[volrathxp]

yeah Badakku was talking about the planetary shots and whatnot. Those are roq files. Premades if you will. All the other ingame scenes are real time rendered.

 

volrath

[kyle_katarn421]

any idiot with half a brain should be able to tell the difference between in-game cut scenes and fmv's

[lightsaber6458]

The cutscenes aren't premade because in their duel, Desann can sometimes cut Luke's limbs off (again) but Luke keeps fighting with a stump.

 

[Akshara]

There are two types of cutscenes...

 

1) ROQ files, which are prerecorded movies that can not be edited in anyway without the proper software. These consist of the ship flying scenes, MonMothma's little hologram, the opening StarWars text, etc. They can be found in the videos\ folder of the assests0.pk3.

 

2) Cinematics, which are scripts that run map entities, like Kyle and Jan, Luke and Desann, etc. These scripts use camera moves, zooms, and soundbite/strip recalls to create an animated scene. The cinematic scripts are spread out through the scripts\ folder of the assests.pk3 file.

 

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