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Geek Culture / How do you make a cutscene?

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Storm4
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what program do I use? How do I use it?

If this isn't on the right board, could a mid please move it to the correct one. Thanks.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 15th Oct 2009 00:31
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It depends on what you want to do with cutscenes. The easiest way is to just animate your game models in a 3D animation package and then save the file as an AVI, then load it into DarkBASIC and play it.

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Jeku
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I would say nowadays it's even easier just to have the cutscenes take place in the game engine. You can setup nice camera angles and have your scenes take place inside the game itself, with all the models. Just make it play out like you would any animation in your game, and you can try different things like removing player control, adding widescreen borders, etc.


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I watched a video review on Uncharted 2, and they way they do cutscene's is fantastic! They start but when they finish it looks like they take you straight back into the action without even having to load more of the game!
Awesome stuff!

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Yodaman Jer
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Quote: "I would say nowadays it's even easier just to have the cutscenes take place in the game engine. You can setup nice camera angles and have your scenes take place inside the game itself, with all the models. Just make it play out like you would any animation in your game, and you can try different things like removing player control, adding widescreen borders, etc. "



I definitely agree. Coding the cutscene is not only cool, but fun. The only thing I've had trouble with is getting audio to play at the correct time... I'm thinking there's got to be a way to fix that with the use of integer variables. You can increase the variable, and then have the audio start playing when the variable reaches a certain number.

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Jeku
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Posted: 15th Oct 2009 06:48 Edited at: 15th Oct 2009 06:49
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Quote: "You can increase the variable, and then have the audio start playing when the variable reaches a certain number."


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Oops--- I just gave a completely ridiculous alternative way to do this, and then realized it probably won't work. I'll think of something else then put it in


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Drew Cameron
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Quote: "Coding the cutscene is not only cool, but fun."


That STONGLY depends on the length of the cutscene lol

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Yodaman Jer
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Quote: "That STONGLY depends on the length of the cutscene lol"



Lol, yeah. The most I've ever done is 20 seconds, and it was just for an establishing shot with the camera zooming down to the player and then traveling through a certain area of the level. I wanted to make it longer but never got around to it.

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Agent Dink
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You could program a cutscene program to automatically take care of camera movements and cuts. You could add options to place your actors and trigger sound effects and dialogue.

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Quote: "I would say nowadays it's even easier just to have the cutscenes take place in the game engine. You can setup nice camera angles and have your scenes take place inside the game itself, with all the models. Just make it play out like you would any animation in your game, and you can try different things like removing player control, adding widescreen borders, etc. "


I definitely agree with this. I think that it gives you the opportunity to be seamless in your transitions, too (Final Fantasy X is a good example of shifting from regular moving around the screen into another event, be it battle or a cinema, seamlessly). If the game stops to go to a movie, I think it is a little less immersive. Depends on the results that you want and your priorities for those results, though.



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