Help with cut scene?

[Slunker]

For some reason, when I run a cut scene, and I make my kyle npc, I can't make him lose his weapon! I can make him change weapons, a bit, but set(SET_WEAPON,WP_NONE) simply doesn't work on him. Can someone help me out?

 

-Slunker

[mli]

How do you make a cutscene?

[Slunker]

You have to have a basic idea of how to use ICARUS and BehavED, first of all, but you start one by using the

Camera(ENABLE) command, and that creates a camera in the same place that your head is, and goes into cutscene mode. Then, you use the other camera and NPC commands to move around the camera and the characters, as well as use sound to play the voices. Finally, you must put Camera(DISABLE) at the end of your script. (this is very important! If you don't, there's no way to exit your level or anything- I have to restart my computer if I get stuck in cut scenes) Get the SDK package with BehavED- it comes with a manual for ICARUS scripting.

 

-Slunker

[Slunker]

Okay! After a lot of experimentation, I've found out a very odd problem: the NPC simply does not respond to any "Affect" commands coming from the script for the cinematic! Remove() works just fine, but when the script runs, any affect()'s are skipped over immediately! Can anyone tell me why this is happening?

 

-Slunker

[jipe]

Are you giving all the NPC's targetnames? You need to manually enter them in the entity editor (hit N with an entity selected) in Radiant, except for Kyle's, which is automatically "kyle".

[Slunker]

Uh, thanks... the problem turned out to be an odd combination of things- I'm not sure what exactly caused the problems, but I changed a few points to be like kejim_post's cinematic, and my guy started working! Now I have another small problem- to test speaking temporarily, I used a sound file from assets1.pk3... he speaks, and his mouth moves, but it doesn't wait for the sound to end before going on! Here's the snippet that handles the speaking... tell me what I'm doing wrong?

 

 

affect ( "cinek", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ FLUSH )

{

 

task ( "line1" )

{

sound ( /*@CHANNELS*/ CHAN_VOICE, "sound/home_mines/clint/line1.mp3" );

}

 

do ( "line1" );

wait ( "line1" );

}

 

-Slunker

[MilesTeg]

I´m not sure if this makes any change, but you should try

 

dowait ( "up" );

 

That´s the way I do it. I can´t see anything else that could be wrong.

[Slunker]

I've tried it using dowait instead of do, wait... anyone else?

[Catscratch]

find the wav's length with winamp and give a wait(delay) command to make the script wait

 

never tried but might work.