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[PJ156]

I want to do a cutscene where an npc is dragged into a vortex/portal.

I am thinking to run an animation of them reching out to the player then freeze that and move them backwards into the portal. I'm not entirely sure any of that can be done.

Any thoughts or advice?

PJ

[Lugaid of the Red Stripes]

It might be fun to mess with the scaling on a pseudo-heartbeat. Set up a strobe light to cover up the jerkiness, and then starting shrinking the NPC in some sort of irregular way.

[PJ156]

Can a npc be rescaled by script?

There have been other threads about changing the heartbeat but I think I can do this off a conversation so a set of sequenced delays could do it?

PJ

[PJ156]

The separate area cutscene is a workable idea, thank Tsongo.

I have done it for other intros etc and I know how to make that work

More food for thought.

PJ

[Tchos]

You can script the scaling of NPCs. Look at the code for the overland map, which shrinks your characters, for reference.

Also, there's an animation for the character jumping backward, which might be worth looking at.

[PJ156]

That's interesting, I will look at that jumping animation.

Thanks for the prods gents,

PJ

[PJ156]

Can't find a jumping one but did find conjourloop_major which i think will do what I need. I will look at the shrinking now.

While I was there I did fond that some of the animations don't work (which we knew) but some have an animation associated with them that is useful but missnamed. Try veiwing PRONE_DEATH.

PJ

[kamal_]

it's the custom animation "jumpback", You can play this animation backwards to make jumpforward, which is what my jumping code does.

[PJ156]

Thanks Kamal_
Thus far I have used conjureloop_maj and frozen it. I have then used a scale script.

Also I am not yet able to move the npc away from the PC. I tried move away from object but that did not work so i am going to try to jump to waypoint by increment. I am sure that this could be done more elegantly but for now I am happy to have achieved it at all

PJ

Modifié par PJ156, 02 mars 2013 - 11:03 .

[Tchos]

This is for an NPC, so this won't matter here, but it should be noted that the poses for the casting animations seem to differ between the races. Mainly only important if you're trying to get a certain pose on the player character, which may be of different races.

[PJ156]

That's a fair point.

I still have not got the movement to work, the character jumping wont work I suspect i ahve to clear all actions first because of the frozen animation but I can't do that so I need to think again.

Currently I am suffering from too many visits to the fridge to allow me to work effectivly on this any more so I am going to playtest instead.

PJ

[PJ156]

This is what I have so far if anyone has a suggestion for the jumping problem that would be very cool.

//Levitates then shrinks npc.
void main()
{
object oTarget = GetObjectByTag("test");
string taken = "mjr_conjureloop";
effect eFreeze =  EffectVisualEffect(VFX_DUR_FREEZE_ANIMATION);
object oJump;
location lTarget;
PlayCustomAnimation(oTarget,taken,0,1.0f);
DelayCommand(1.0f,ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY,eFreeze,oTarget,3.0f));
DelayCommand(1.2f,SetScale(oTarget,0.95f,0.95f,0.95f));
oJump = GetWaypointByTag("waypoint1");
lTarget = GetLocation(oJump);
AssignCommand(oTarget, ActionJumpToLocation(lTarget));
DelayCommand(1.4f,SetScale(oTarget,0.90f,0.90f,0.90f));
DelayCommand(1.6f,SetScale(oTarget,0.85f,0.85f,0.85f));
DelayCommand(1.8f,SetScale(oTarget,0.80f,0.80f,0.80f));
DelayCommand(2.0f,SetScale(oTarget,0.75f,0.75f,0.75f));
DelayCommand(2.2f,SetScale(oTarget,0.70f,0.70f,0.70f));
DelayCommand(2.4f,SetScale(oTarget,0.65f,0.65f,0.65f));
DelayCommand(2.6f,SetScale(oTarget,0.60f,0.60f,0.60f));
}

PJ

[PJ156]

In the end I kept it simple, the frozen animation one shrink then a vfx and she goes to script hideen.

It worked quite well. The problem with the shrinking is that her feet stay on the gound so it look like she gets shorter rather than overall smaller.

Like all the animations it all runs a bit quick but I can work on that.

Thanks for the hints,

PJ