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Offline macguba

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Outro weirdness
« on: 30 Aug 2004, 16:47:26 »
I'm making an Outro. (groan)     It works fine when I watch it as a "player":  it works fine if I watch it via camera.sqs.     But when I watch it through the camera script, two wierd things happen.

Firstly, there is an unexplained explosion.   This seems to be related to a bunch of setdammage1 commands at the start (which work fine).    In the camera script you don't hear the explosions (because you are elsewhere at the time) so its almost as if the game has noticed that you haven't heard them, and plays the sound later.    

Secondly, I have a loon throwing a smoke grenade.   Works fine normally, but if script is running he doens't through it.

The camera script does virtually nothing except run the camera.   It has no commands relating explosions or setdammage or throwing smoke grenades.

Anybody experienced this kind of thing?
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Re:Outro weirdness
« Reply #1 on: 30 Aug 2004, 17:48:25 »
OK well I'm making progress.   It appears the explosion thing was to do with when the camera was allocated its first shot:  the vehicles appear blackened immediately but the sound happens a few seconds later.     The trigger that does the exploding doesn't fire (or at least take effect) till the camera has that first shot:  simply creating the camera isn't enough.
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Re:Outro weirdness
« Reply #2 on: 01 Sep 2004, 19:53:22 »
It turns out the initial explosions don't occur till the camera is near the area, or after about 15seconds in any event.    The answer is to make a shot in the relevant place (under blackout obviously) and use a fadeSound command to hide the noise.

The smoke grenade problem is related to a saveStatus command.      The commands in the units init line were not (or could not) being carried out.   Fixed that.

Still have a saveStatus problem but I'll make a specific new thread about that if I need to.


Edit:  I never thought I'd be responsible for a thread where I was the only poster.   ;D ::)
« Last Edit: 01 Sep 2004, 19:53:52 by macguba »
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