Scripting Tutorial Help

[Cerez]

Does this tutorial exercise still complete successfully for you?

 

2. Your First Script

 

I followed all the steps in detail, and when I loaded the map in SP, I ended up in the room with the door unwilling to open, and as a consequence the script not firing.

 

I'm trying to find if there's a mistake I did along the line, somewhere...

[IrocJeff]

When I did it I could get the door to open but Desann had all his limbs. I found other tutorials for NPC's that helped more than this one for what I wanted to do so I just kinda let it go.

Does a message appear on top of your screen that says it couldn't find the script ? If not, only thing I can think of is the linking between the trigger and scriptrunner may be reversed.

[Cerez]

When I did it I could get the door to open but Desann had all his limbs. I found other tutorials for NPC's that helped more than this one for what I wanted to do so I just kinda let it go.

Does a message appear on top of your screen that says it couldn't find the script ? If not, only thing I can think of is the linking between the trigger and scriptrunner may be reversed.

 

Thanks IrocJeff. There's nothing that says there is something missing or went bad in the console, so I assume the script compiled and loaded successfully. About the order, it's the scriptrunner that's supposed to be connected to the trigger, right? That means the key details for the trigger link appear in the scriptrunner event/instance.

 

Do you still have links to the tutorials you've used to learn? I'm interested in learning cutscene scripting/writing in JA to the full extent.

[IrocJeff]

Thanks IrocJeff. There's nothing that says there is something missing or went bad in the console, so I assume the script compiled and loaded successfully. About the order, it's the scriptrunner that's supposed to be connected to the trigger, right? That means the key details for the trigger link appear in the scriptrunner event/instance.

 

Do you still have links to the tutorials you've used to learn? I'm interested in learning cutscene scripting/writing in JA to the full extent.

 

The one thing that is strange on that tutorial to me is that the connection between the trigger and the scriptrunner is green in the image in the tutorial. That only happens when you connect the scriptrunner to the trigger. When its trigger to scriptrunner, it's a red line. Connect the trigger to the scrptrunner, compile, and see how that works. Some of this stuff is a pain.

 

The tutorials I have are on NPC scripting and can be found here. Under Resources.

 

http://www.student.oulu.fi/~lvaarisk/

 

Here is a link on some player animations which I found a few weeks ago from Lucasforums. Its not a tutorial but it helps a bit.

 

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=97551

 

I'm in the same boat you are with the cutscene stuff. If you want to spend the time, go to Lucasforums old site and go page by page and see if you can find stuff. That's how I found out how to do the opening crawl from the movies. If its not written or pasted in the threads, though, the chances of those links being active are really slim.

[Cerez]

Thanks, that would explain my problem. The line is red in my tutorial map; I'll try to get it green and see if that does something.

 

In that case we should keep in touch and help each other out. Two heads are better than one. We should collect all that we can gather about cutscene scripting and place it in a collective resource for everyone who wishes to learn the quirks of the trade.

 

I have found the following tutorial series from the past:

http://web.archive.org/web/20091022065706/http://geocities.com/kengomaps/tutorials.html

 

It goes into a little more detail.

 

By the way, you can use the Wayback engine to find content from old links now gone from the web. It's a giant web archive that saves snapshots of sites through time:

http://web.archive.org

 

So if you ever find that a link is gone, try searching for an earlier version of the site up on Wayback.

[IrocJeff]

I think your line is supposed to be red, because when I target scriptrunner ---->---- trigger my line is green and does nothing. Door doesn't open. The other way around works. 

 

Good thinking on the wayback machine. Those Kengo tutorials were the ones I was searching for. I found them posted on Massasi's forums but the links didn't work. I never thought of using the wayback machine, even though I used it before. 

 

I'll send you whatever I find as well.