costum textcrawl

[Lazarus]

I know from somewhere I could basically make a new textcrawl by basically create one photoshop file and let it go over the screen. I knew there was a tutorial somewhere, but I cant seem to find it. (i dont think this can be changed in strings) ?

 

 

During my searches, i did find the closing credits in credits.str. With a bit of modding i could rewrite those in a new file and point it to there, am I not mistaken?

 

 

edit

 

http://forums.filefront.com/sw-jk3-modding-mapping-editing/355327-star-wars-jedi-academy.html

[IrocJeff]

Here is what I did for my text crawl. http://jkhub.org/topic/2843-ice-station-wampa/?p=39903

 

The closing credits I think you just edit. If you can find the original credits to the game you can see how they are layed out and seperated. You just have to keep that format from what I recall.

[mrwonko]

As you mentioned, the opening text crawl is just an image. Replace it. I think it plays depending on the level name (yavin1?), but may also be accessible as a special .roq/video...

[Lazarus]

Alright, my attempt failed, since it still grabs the old scroll for some odd reason.

 

Now i didnt pk3 it, simply because i am not done yet with the project but i created a new tga file with 512 x 2048. Made an alpha channel and printed on there the text. left the layer with normal text up plus put white over it on a new layer. Saved it as 32 bit tga in a new created menu -> video -> tc_english.tga.

 

Actually I didnt do this with a misc_video, but just used a ref_tag for this, since it does the same. The misc_video even places a model of a camera down, and that didnt work for me, so i decided to do it with a ref_tag. Dropped the lines in my behaved script.

 

/Generated by BehavEd


rem ( "Setting up the crawl" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_VIDEO_PLAY", "jk0101_sw" );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ ENABLE );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ PAN, $tag( "introcrawl", ORIGIN)$, < 0.000 0.000 0.000 >, 0 );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ MOVE, $tag( "introcrawl", ORIGIN)$, 0 );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ DISABLE );
rem ( "Setting Up The Players Skills" );


affect ( "player", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ FLUSH )
{
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_SABER_THROW", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_SABER_DEFENSE", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_SABER_OFFENSE", /*@[member='SaberBlade83']_STYLES*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_HEAL_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_JUMP_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_SPEED_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_PUSH_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_PULL_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_MINDTRICK_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_GRIP_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_LIGHTNING_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_RAGE_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_PROTECT_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_ABSORB_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_DRAIN_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_FORCE_SIGHT_LEVEL", /*@[member='Force']_LEVELS*/ "0" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_PLAYERMODEL", "prisoner" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_WEAPON", "WP_BLASTER" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_WEAPON", "WP_MELEE" );
set ( /*@SET_TYPES*/ "SET_ITEM", /*@ITEM_NAMES*/ "INV_ELECTROBINOCULARS" );
}


rem ( "Camera Actions" );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ ENABLE );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ MOVE, $tag( "startcam", ORIGIN)$, 0 );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ PAN, $tag( "startcam", ANGLES)$, < 0.000 0.000 0.000 >, 0 );
wait ( 2000.000 );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ MOVE, $tag( "cam_ledge", ORIGIN)$, 4000 );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ PAN, $tag( "cam_ledge", ANGLES)$, < 0.000 0.000 0.000 >, 4000 );
wait ( 4500.000 );
camera ( /*@CAMERA_COMMANDS*/ DISABLE );

So far it all works, however, it doesnt grab the new tga file to scroll over when I launch the game after compile or test devmap. Is there a way I can point the game to pick my tga, instead of the old one in the assets?

[Circa]

@@redsaurus was actually planning on a new tutorial about this.

[redsaurus]

yeah, I was going to look at this kind of stuff next - I think your problem is just that you need to put it in a pk3, otherwise the default one is loaded

[Lazarus]

Cheers, looking forward to your new sp tutorials @@redsaurus

[Lazarus]

Yep, it was the pk3 issue. I put all files in a pk3 file, ran an old savegame from me, and voila, it did work with my own textcrawl. cheers!

[afi]

You could also do a .roq or move the text in a menu

[Tempust85]

The opening crawl is a TGA which only gets played by running the menu command "uiScript    startgame". Just an FYI - the last frame of the STAR WARS roq is used as the background for the opening crawl.

[IrocJeff]

Yep, it was the pk3 issue. I put all files in a pk3 file, ran an old savegame from me, and voila, it did work with my own textcrawl. cheers!

 

 

One thing to do with your crawl if you didn't.

 

Make sure you space your wording so if fills the space of each line, like they did in the movies. It makes it look much better than having indentations to end each line.

[Lazarus]

One thing to do with your crawl if you didn't.

 

Make sure you space your wording so if fills the space of each line, like they did in the movies. It makes it look much better than having indentations to end each line.

 

I actually didnt, I tried it, didnt liked how it looked in the crawl, so i went just with the regular entering, I think it looks more "me" that way.