Intro slides and camera cutscenes

#1 1) You can use intro video with music and narration for story

2) You can use path cam for in-game camera/cutscene.

#2 What if I want crisp images - like concept art? Is there a full screen image overlay or something that plays nice with TGE/TGEA?

#3 Andy, can you not just use a GUI bitmap like the splash screens?

#4 Okay thanks guys. These both sound good. For the screens I thought there may have been a screen anim format that did a difference optimisation like the old Amiga DPaint. I'll hunt around for the pathed camera resource.

Oh.. found a couple...
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=3610
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=9690

Just a thought though. How do I stop the enemies and things happening while I do this? Like I wouldn't neccessarily want a bad guy shooting me while I was being shown that an exit had opened. Is there a time hold variable or something?

#5 Andy, to stop AI you could just add a variable in their script, so that when it loops to the point were they check for targets it checks the variable first to see whether it should.

(terrible example)

1.trigger fires
2.trigger sends AI's peace variable to 1
3.AI loops targetting/firing/etc but gets peace=1
4.cutscene/guibitmap shows
5.guibitcutscene/guibitmap is deleted
6.trigger sends AI's peace variable to 0
7.AI loops targetting/firing/etc and gets peace=0 so he/they kick off

//terrible psuedocode
//on your AI's loop
if(%this.peace) != 1;
{
%this.shootyshooty();
}
else
{
%this.schedule(5,"think");
}

//end of terrible psuedocode

In fact rather than scheduling things it might be better to use the Unreal-type subscription resource. It's somewhere in the resources section, do a search.

edit for glaring error

#6 Awesome thanks guys!