Cutscene ACS beginner questions

[Leon_Portier]

Reading a recent thread about the troubles of implementing video cut scenes has reignited my interest in making cut-scenes in ACS.

I´m making some introductory cutscenes and mission briefings with the ACS scripting language. Now I am at the point where I feel the need to ask some questions regarding camera zoom, lighting, movement, sprites of actors and I´m also happy to be given general tips.
Thanks to the tutorial on the wiki I got pretty far! https://doomnexus.drdteam.org/Tutorial/cutscenes.html

Regarding the camera zoom, in the following image is a briefing depicted. It was made using a aiming camera, a wall texture as the picture and text thanks to the hudmessage function. I made the picture fit into the camera frame by moving the camera and stretching the texture, but I would find it easier just to zoom the view, that would also be very nice with a landscape shot. Is it even possible to zoom the camera?
Also, I noticed many players like to use darkening mods like Dark Doom, which make the picture hard to see, is there a way to force a single line to be fullbright?


Regarding animating a sprite I´m using a puppet actor with states calling different frames of animation, which I can set with the ACS function [wiki]SetActorState[/wiki].
For precise movements it seems the best to use the [wiki]ActorMover[/wiki] for movement and [wiki]SetActorState[/wiki] for a walking animation, whats your opinion on this?

---

Code: Select all

//DANCE FLOOR
ACTOR Dance_Puppet 8052
{
  Health 80
  Radius 20
  Height 34
  Speed 6
  Monster
  +DONTHARMSPECIES
  +FLOORCLIP

  States
  {
  Spawn:
    GGWV N 1 
	loop
	
	Anim_N:    //SetActorState (tid, "Anim_N"); For animation frame N
	GGWV N 1
	loop
	
	Anim_O:
	GGWV O 1
	loop
	
	Anim_P:
	GGWV P 1
	loop


  }

[kodi]

is there a way to force a single line to be fullbright?

Provided you're in UDMF, you can select a line and force a brightness level on it in GZDoom Builder. Same tab where you choose the texture. That should take care of mods that darken all sectors, but not any that deviously darken every single linedef if zscript can even do that.

Is it even possible to zoom the camera?

SetCameraToTexture has a FOV argument which you can change.

[Guest]

You can show an image using a hudmessage, no need to go the way around textures on walls:

SetFont("MYIMG");
HudMessage(s:"A"; HUDMSG_FADEOUT, 0, CR_UNTRANSLATED, 0.5, 0.55, 0.0, 0.0);

Just define a graphic, use SetFont to load it as a 'font', and print the letter 'A' using a hudmessage. Important is to have it 'CR_UNTRANSLATED' for some reason...
And voila, here is your image

[Leon_Portier]

is there a way to force a single line to be fullbright?

Provided you're in UDMF, you can select a line and force a brightness level on it in GZDoom Builder. Same tab where you choose the texture. That should take care of mods that darken all sectors, but not any that deviously darken every single linedef if zscript can even do that.

Is it even possible to zoom the camera?

SetCameraToTexture has a FOV argument which you can change.

Ah, found the brightness of lines, Ill try the camera to texture one out, thank you!

You can show an image using a hudmessage, no need to go the way around textures on walls:

SetFont("MYIMG");
HudMessage(s:"A"; HUDMSG_FADEOUT, 0, CR_UNTRANSLATED, 0.5, 0.55, 0.0, 0.0);

Just define a graphic, use SetFont to load it as a 'font', and print the letter 'A' using a hudmessage. Important is to have it 'CR_UNTRANSLATED' for some reason...
And voila, here is your image

That sounds amazing, I have to try that one out!