Another quick BoA Status report.

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Spidweb
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Member # 1
 written Wednesday, August 13 2003 13:59 Profile Homepage #0
Spent this afternoon adding cutscene capability.

Here is a simple cutscene script. It move the party to a certain location and has them walk east a little while chatting.

beginstate 32; // a sample cutscene
force_view_center(28,10);
set_character_facing(0,6);
set_character_facing(1,6);
set_character_facing(2,6);
set_character_facing(3,6);
relocate_character(0,28,10);
relocate_character(1,27,10);
relocate_character(2,26,10);
relocate_character(3,25,10);
text_bubble_on_char(0,"I am talking!");
force_instant_terrain_redraw();
pause(15);

force_view_center(29,10);
relocate_character(0,29,10);
relocate_character(1,28,10);
relocate_character(2,27,10);
relocate_character(3,26,10);
erase_text_bubbles();
text_bubble_on_char(1,"So am I!");
force_instant_terrain_redraw();
pause(15);

force_view_center(30,10);
relocate_character(0,30,10);
relocate_character(1,29,10);
relocate_character(2,28,10);
relocate_character(3,27,10);
erase_text_bubbles();
force_instant_terrain_redraw();
pause(15);

block_entry(TRUE);
break;

It requires a bit of finicky placing of the individual characters, but it should be able to do most anything you will want.

- Jeff Vogel
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Drakefyre
Triad Mage
Member # 7
 written Wednesday, August 13 2003 14:11 Profile Homepage #1
This looks very promising, especially the text on characters. Say goodbye to frame animation and hello cutscenes!

What happens if the player uses a singleton? And can NPCs be used in this too?

[ Wednesday, August 13, 2003 14:12: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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demonslay3r
Guardian
Member # 2238
 written Wednesday, August 13 2003 16:32 Profile Homepage #2
Great! This is yet another wonderful addition, and warmly welcomed in my book.

The chat sounds great, reminds me of the old Exile cutscenes.

Questions: (Drakey's), and the text would be limited to about 6 words, right? Otherwise it wouldn't quite fit over the characters correctly.

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The Immortal
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Member # 4
 written Wednesday, August 13 2003 20:01 Profile Homepage #3
Will the designer be able to place multiple explosions/sounds at one time? Will creatures be able to move on their own, or will the designer have to create different encounter groups? (The last one isn't a very big complaint, but it could easilly make some types of cutscenes be overly painful if you're having a large battle or somesuch.) Will both explosions and sounds "refresh" the screen, or will it be like BoE (ie only explosions refresh the screen)? More questions as I think of them. And yeah, thanks loads for giving us designers more convenience in doing this.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Thursday, August 14 2003 00:37 Profile Homepage #4
Yay! :D

With this, one could even make an intro movie sequence! :D

Good point about the multiple explosions - I don't know if this is what you mean, but I think simultaneous effects would be quite nice. For example some sequence where a demon is summoned would look nice if there was a ring of simultaneous explosions all around it. And it would allow for a group of people to 'teleport' at the same time, like in the Exile III intro sequence. :)

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Desert Pl@h
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Member # 1768
 written Thursday, August 14 2003 06:55 Profile #5
I've had a nifty little idea for multiple explosions for BoE.

Place invisible monsters over blocked terrain, and have an "Explosion on space" node, with a large enough radius to get all of them.

It would also do damage to the party, but that just adds to the realism.

I think I'll go test that…

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Morgan
Shaper
Member # 22
 written Thursday, August 14 2003 08:34 Profile #6
This *does* look promising. No more fiddling around with movies which BoE was never meant to make anyway.
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Shock Trooper
Member # 1723
 written Thursday, August 14 2003 16:53 Profile #7
¿Question?

What direction is 6? Wouldn't it make sense to have 0,1,2,3? Since there are 4 directions, right? This is my utter lack of experience speaking, but could someone explain this to me?

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Trogdor the Burninator
Warrior
Member # 3251
 written Thursday, August 14 2003 22:44 Profile Homepage #8
Well, you can move in 8 directions (up,up-right, right, down-right, down, down-left, left, up-left) but there's only 4 directions for each graphic, right? This is kinda confusing. Or ARE there 8?

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Drakefyre
Triad Mage
Member # 7
 written Friday, August 15 2003 02:09 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Desert Plah:

I've had a nifty little idea for multiple explosions for BoE.

Place invisible monsters over blocked terrain, and have an "Explosion on space" node, with a large enough radius to get all of them.

It would also do damage to the party, but that just adds to the realism.

I think I'll go test that…
It shows the amount of damage done, so make them fire immune.

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The Almighty Doer of Stuff
Shaper
Member # 73
 written Friday, August 15 2003 03:03 Profile #10
Can we make the PCs draw their weapons in a cutscene? That would be good.
Oh! Even better! Can we make them die? Seriously, like in that animation in the Main Menu in E3, where Throg died, and they brought him back to town, and brought him back to life?

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The Creator
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Member # 112
 written Friday, August 15 2003 22:10 Profile #11
quote:
Originally written by Desert Plah:

I've had a nifty little idea for multiple explosions for BoE.

Place invisible monsters over blocked terrain, and have an "Explosion on space" node, with a large enough radius to get all of them.

It would also do damage to the party, but that just adds to the realism.

I think I'll go test that…
Been done. See Isle of Boredom.

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Desert Pl@h
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Member # 1768
 written Saturday, August 16 2003 09:56 Profile #12
I tried to play through that once. I used a 1-PC megaparty, and got stuck at one of the last tests. (Darn reuniting nodes.)

Perhaps I can get back the way I came…

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In Nature's family all are brothers.
Puff and blow and wheeze and hiss;
You can't frighten Shingebiss.
Bring your frost and ice and snow;
I'm still free to come and go.
You can never frighten me,
One who never fears is FREE!"
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The Creator
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 written Saturday, August 16 2003 20:49 Profile #13
Ah. Yes. The latest version should work - though I wouldn't be suprised if you decided it wasn't worth it.

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