Editing Help and Information

[OFPWiZard]

Hello Everyone,

I played a mission a long time ago and i always wanted to ask this question(s).  Also other missions for different questions.

How would you make it so you could have a trigger and have the person you are be a different person when that trigger is active.

Example:
(I am making a intro for a mission i am working on)
Beginning i have myself a Civilian.  After a while the Civilain is going to walk into a house to get ready for some action.  Blackfade starts and i want a Resistance person with the same face as me to be coming out.    So it looks like i changed my cloths.  

Text is going to show (One Year Later - May 19th 2004)
Have me with different cloths in a Civilian body walking around the area of his old house but its destroy (Desert Island).  Talking with his friend... stuff like that and more after.

Here are some of the thins i need to do this:
        *Don't need to give me everything, if you could i would be very happy and i would get my mission created.
1- How to make a person's body change into a different body.  Like i said above.
2- How could i have small text and make different colors for the text, like in the campign for Resistance.
3- Whats a good tool to make my voice recorded so i can have my voice and others in the mission (Campiagn).  (You only need to give me the information about the tool)
4- How to make the month of a person move so it looks like his talking.  (I had it once but can't find where i got it)
5- For different people, have the person have the face i would pick.  Like Victor T.  has the same face in every mission but thats not the face you really have. (Script)
6- Could you email me a page of Switchmoves and EffectStand... stuff like that at grxboxwizard@netscape.net please.  I have most of them but i know theres more.  I had a document that had all of them and the website i got them from but there are on my other computer that doesn't work.  
7- Whats a good Music Converter to convert a MP3 into a OGG format music file?  I have ACE-HIGH MP3 WAV WMA OGG Converter, but the KB is still too big.  It works but i don't like the KB.  Could you tell me a very good one that i could maybe buy form somewhere.  Also the voice recorder.
8- Scripts for having Camera views.  Example:  Showing me how to write the script for the camera view, fading, text, and more in a SQS file.

I know how to make my own music into a mission, making respawn for people in different formats, team, single, base... also vehical respawn.  

If you could do most of the things for me (getting the information) i would be very very happy.  If you can't could you give me an email or someone's sn, or even an website where i can get this stuff and info.

Thanks for your time.

Name;  Adam Thorman
Email:  grxboxwizard@netscape.net
AIM:  StealthyTemper
Website:  www.uafclan.cjb.net (Working on the clan site after i get everything ready for it)

Pe@cE

~Auto~

[macguba]

OK, the first thing is that we ask questions here and we get answers here where everybody can see them and benefit from them.    No need for email.

The fundamental answer to your fundamental question is no, you can't change identities halfway through a mission.   However, it may be possible to fake it.   You could do it by making your mission multiplayer (player is killed as one loon and respawns as another) or you could make it a mini-campaign, using the transition from one mission to the next as the opportunity to change clothes.

2.  There is a tute
3.  no idea
4.  lip synch tute in Ed Depot
5.  use the command setFace
6.  check the unofficial command ref in the Ed Depot for the older ones, search the forum for the newer ones - somebody did a list
7.  no idea
8.  read snYpir's camera tute and then messiah's camera.sqs tute

Everything you need to know is somewhere on this site.   Learn your way around the tutorials - we have over 150 now so it takes a while to figure out what is there.    Search the FAQ and search the forum.      Skip through the official and unofficial command refs - many's the time I've solved a problem just by looking through the command ref to see if there was a command that would do what I wanted.

HA!  I've just re-read your post and what you want to do is easy, since it is in an intro and we don't have a player unit to worry about.      You just have two units, each one dressed as you will, and use setFace to give them the same face.   (Make it one of the more distinctive ones, I'd recommend a beard or glasses, so that the player knows it is the same bloke.     If you need to get one out of the way use setPos to teleport it to the other side of the island ... getPos may come in handy too.

[OFPWiZard]

 Hello

Thanks for answering.

I was thinking about that with the two people but i saw in a mission...

MISSION:
Beginning, you are flying in a Mi17 as a Civilian and you land (Dark Time) and get out.  You walk to a house then a black fade starts.  You are a pilot now.  WAIT!  Ya, derr    they maybe did that setPos thingy and had the two people switch.  I don't remember if it had a specific face but oh well.

Now about the setPos thingy.
Do you name the person (c1)
Make a trigger bye anything you want.  Then put this in the Inti field:  c1 setPos ?
? would be like the place you want to put them??  Like Eb13?

Heres what i am going to do:
Intro:
Malden Island (Area of the Desert Isalnd)
Civilian walking to his house (Face of what i want).  Almost to his house as a Resistance Soldier comes out of a car and calls him.  Talks with him too.  Civilian well go into the house as the Resistance Soldier is waiting (Camera View set on him) i would have a trigger to move the two people form a civilian to a General Resistance with a Sniper rifle.  Shows them leave and Intro is over.
Missions (Text:  2 Years later)
Civilian walking around (Island Desert Island) saying stuff about what happened and why it happened... ect.  don't want to tell you everything, lol.

So you are saying that the face script is somewhere in this site?
and
The month moving to look like his talking is in here too.  which i should know, but takes forever to look for something that i want now but didn't want before.
What about the recordering voice thing?  Have any idea wherer i could find info about that?

Well sorry for me taping a lot, lol, i just want to get everything set up for this mission/campaign.

Bye

[macguba]

It's a pretty ambitious project for what I presume is your first mission.   Sounds great.

Check these links to learn about setPos and setFace commands

Online Command reference

Downloadable Command Ref and Unofficial Command ref

Spend some time looking at the Tutorials categories and sub-categories, they were designed to make it easier to find the information that you need.

[OFPWiZard]

Ok I will look around harder.

Thats the place i was looking for:  Commands  

Also maybe sometime we could play the game, if you don't mind.

Well g2g look for what i need, bye

[OFPWiZard]

Hello

If you would look at the question i have made: http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=7764

and try to find what i need left that would be great.

These are the ones u have found.

1- Solved
2- Need to still find out.  Didn't find anything about it yet.  Please help.
     Small text or and/or different style of text, also color.
3- Need to still find out.  Didn't find anything about it yet.  Please help.
4- I know there is one but i can find it, i will.  I saw it in here before.
5- Solved
6- Need to still find out how to make a person crouch/kneel like in the picture i have attached.
7- Need to still find out.  Didn't find anything about it yet.  Please help.
8- I know there is one but i can find it, i will.  I saw it in here before.

Thanks

[macguba]

I keep telling you, its all in the Ed Depot.  

2.  I don't know where the tute is, but there is one somewhere, on fonts and the like.    Never used it so don't know if its any good.

8.  If you haven't found the tutes I mentioned you just haven't been looking at all ..... I mean apart from the fact that you can search the tutes for author names, there is a camera & cutscenes sub-category.    If you need an example look in the Tutorial mission in Getting Started.  

[OFPWiZard]

Hello

I NEED HELP!

Question: How do I edit text in OFP to different colors and styles?

Info:
I have searched around this site forever (from 4 days ago).
I found something but its not helping me any.
It only shows the different styles of text, pluse different colors.

Question: Could someone give me an example of a script for cameras?

Info:
I have also searched this site from 4 days ago.
I found a beginner script (step by step on how to do it).
But i only found the beginning level script (for camera views), i want to know advanced...

Heres what i have:
camera.sqs

Quote:
titlecut ["this is a test", black in", 2]

_cam = "camera" cameracreate [0,0,0]

_cam cameraeffect ["internal", "back"]

_cam camsettarget aP

_cam camsetrelpos [ 0, 1, 1.7]

_cam camcommit 0

@camcommitted _cam

~4

_cam camsettarget man

_cam camsetrelpos [ 0, 1, 1.7]

_cam camcommit 4

@camcommitted _cam

Is this what the script should look like?  I can change the numbering and styles of each line to make the camera view .

Please give me the link or show me whats the way to do the advanced way on making camera scripts.

Thanks
Pe@eE

Bye

macguba i thought all of the post i put up was all locked or blocked, i didn't see this one.

SORRY!

I put that post up the one above about the camera scripting because i didn't see one of my post open... so i made a new one.

SO I AM SORRY!

I will use this one until the whole topic is solved.

ok

Bye

I WILL LOOK FOR MY SELF... even if it take a week i will do it myself tehn.

also macguba i updated the switchMove/playMoves to have up to date commands.  ;D