I'm having the nastiest kind of problem for debugging, at least in my experience. It only happens around once in 20 testings, so when I change something, I never know if I corrected it. Today it happened again, but on the next test, without changing anything, it didn't. I know it isn't fixed if I didn't do anything to fix it...
It's about camera position that gets set in the beginning of a cutscene. Most of the time, it faces the same way, in the direction I want it to, but once in a while, just when I was hoping everything is right, it looks maybe 90 degrees to the side, and I get to watch a rat instead of my NPCs speaking strings...
Ideas what this could be?
Before the cutscene, the player gets a conversation. The camera is free during the conversation and the player isn't in cutscene mode.
When they click on End Dialog, this script fires:
object oPC = GetFirstPC();
FadeToBlack(oPC);
DelayCommand(2.0f, ExecuteScript({this script below}, oPC));
Here is the cutscene's code without the NPCs speaking.
void HandleWeapons(object oPC, float fDur) // unequip and later equip weapons
{ // (they don't become invisible)
object oRightHand = GetItemInSlot(INVENTORY_SLOT_RIGHTHAND, oPC);
object oLeftHand = GetItemInSlot(INVENTORY_SLOT_LEFTHAND, oPC);
if (GetIsObjectValid(oRightHand))
{
AssignCommand(oPC, ActionUnequipItem(oRightHand));
DelayCommand(fDur+2.2f, AssignCommand(oPC,
ActionEquipItem(oRightHand, INVENTORY_SLOT_RIGHTHAND)));
}
if (GetIsObjectValid(oLeftHand))
{
AssignCommand(oPC, ActionUnequipItem(oLeftHand));
DelayCommand(fDur+2.2f, AssignCommand(oPC,
ActionEquipItem(oLeftHand, INVENTORY_SLOT_LEFTHAND)));
}
}
void main()
{
object oPC = GetFirstPC();
object oPCsEndDestination = GetObjectByTag("felpris_pc_wp");
object oPCPosition = GetObjectByTag("pc_posit_rav_cut1_wp");
effect eDomi = EffectCutsceneDominated();
float fDur = 80.0f;
int nMyAppearanceType = GetAppearanceType(oPC);
// defined more objects here
// ...
// store camera
StoreCameraFacing();
// set time to daytime
SetTime(14, 0, 0, 0);
// change PC's appearance type
SetCreatureAppearanceType(oPC, APPEARANCE_TYPE_INVISIBLE_HUMAN_MALE);
// unequip and later equip weapons (they don't become invisible)
HandleWeapons(oPC, fDur);
// ghost effect
ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY, EffectCutsceneGhost(), oPC, fDur);
BlackScreen(oPC);
// camera facing
DelayCommand(1.0f, AssignCommand(oPC,
SetCameraFacing(-1.0, 5.0f, 85.0, CAMERA_TRANSITION_TYPE_SNAP)));
// bring PC, dominate
AssignCommand(oPC, ActionJumpToObject(oPCPosition));
DelayCommand(1.2f, ApplyEffectToObject(DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY, eDomi, oPC, fDur-2.0));
DelayCommand(1.2f, SetCutsceneMode(oPC, TRUE, FALSE));
// some NPCs move and speak strings
// ...
// ...
// restore camera
DelayCommand(fDur+1.7f, RestoreCameraFacing());
// end the cutscene
DelayCommand(fDur, FadeToBlack(oPC));
DelayCommand(fDur+2.0f, SetCutsceneMode(oPC, FALSE));
DelayCommand(fDur+2.2f, SetCreatureAppearanceType(oPC, nMyAppearanceType));
DelayCommand(fDur+3.0f, AssignCommand(oPC, ActionJumpToObject(oPCsEndDestination)));
}
* I realize now that I put -1.0 for the first parameter in SetCameraFacing... I remember trying many things to set the camera to face where I wanted it, uh... Is this the answer?
** Tested it with the waypoint's orientation (which is 200.0) instead of -1.0. It seems to have no impact. I put 200.0 as the first parameter, then turned the WP the other way. Camera faces the same way as the WP, not 200.0.
*** I suspect the problem, given these conditions, is that PC, when jumping to a waypoint, does not always face the same way as the waypoint, even though she's jumping to a different area. But most of the time, she does. So every once in 20 testings, she faces a different way.
Modifié par Lovelamb, 24 décembre 2012 - 11:53 .
