Help with Intro Cutscene and Waypoints?

[Wabbit 0]

I'm trying to fix a mission that I created about 4 years ago before I dropped off the world. Now that I'm back, I've found that my newer, faster computer does weird things to my intro cutscene.

I had made a really nice cinematic style cutscene by using waits (~5, etc.) in my script. As I understand it, this is not the right way to do this, and I should somehow use triggers and synchronized waypoints.

I have no idea how to do this and I can't find a tutorial to explain it to me. Can anyone help me?

As an example, there are about 10 different scenes in the intro. On my old PC, I set the wait in the scripts long enough so that all the vehicles were in place when the cutscene moved to the correct camera.

But now, running on a faster PC, I see that that the vehicles must have already moved on, so they don't show up.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[llauma 0]

There's a forum section called: MISSION EDITING & SCRIPTING

Try your luck there..

[Wabbit 0]

Oh, sorry... I started at the top of BI Forums and saw "Operation Flashpoint" and didn't scroll down further. Since I didn't see anything like that under that link, I thought the General page was my best bet.

[Placebo 29]

Moving to ME&S

[Metal Heart 0]

You could sync the script with the waypoints using a variable and wait command. For example, have a variable introScene = 0, on the 1st waypoint onActivation set this to introScene = 1, on second introScene = 2 and so on and then in the script:

;move camera to see wp 0

@introScene == 1

;move camera to see wp 1

@introScene == 2

;move camera to see wp 2

@ is equal to "wait until this condition is true"

[mattxr 9]

Try this page at OPEC and scroll down to the Cutscenes, Music and Custom Resources section.. really really good tuturials to get yourself well on your way.. thats how i learnt OPEC

Cutscenes, Music and Custom Resources