Cinematic Trailer.... with a couple of questions.

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Ok, well..... I am releasing my short cinematic trailer on this thread. I was gonna drop it in the map thread, but it's not really a map to play. I also have just a few quick questions about cinematics.

I tried to make this much more involved. How do you stop a creature from using his Alt. stand animation. I tried just setting the animation to just stand. I tried setting the rarity. I couldn't figure it out. Also the sounds don't trigger as well or at all for some, but not ALL the sounds i added. ANYWAY, please have a look and give me some feedback. Thanks guys!

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I'll look at it.

By the way, did you know you can PLAY a unit's animation? Therefore, simply set it to alternate stand or something of the sort and then change it as needed.

I did this in my LoaP. A storm hammer/bolt/whatever by default uses the stand animation, which has a little wind that shoots out of the hammer ot make it look like it is moving. BUT, you can set it to play the Birth animation via a trigger (for some reason it doesn't work often in the unit's parameters...only alternate, work, stand gold, and that sort of thing. The Peasants of all four races have the most options it seems), to which it will stand still (no wind particles) for as long as you want to.

Not bad. It's a start.
 
I tried that, but they only play the animationion once, and they still do the alt stand. But, Thanks for the advice.

What im curious to know. If how computer speed affects the timing on the cinematics.Did they seem pretty well timed. I mean im not expecting my timings to be dead on, but were they pretty close? Because on my computer they are timed really well.

Oh OH i forgot to ask. Also, How do you end the trailer without doing a victory trigger. just want it to go to leaderboard. Thanks again!
 
The lightning and the flames? Perfect. Very nice eyeballing :D

I also liked the camera movement. As far as I know, there is no trouble with any of your cinema, if lightning is the only sound. For realism, it'd be better to wait a little bit after the lightning flash to create the sound. That's just real life, because, as you probably know, light travels faster than sound.

Look at the triggers. If it's enforcing the victory conditions, well, it'll end.
 
I created the Victory trigger, because it's the only way to get it to end, I thought. But, after watching COTN (Which I just saw for the first time today!) I realized that it just ended without a Victory clicky thing. It just went straight to the leaderbaord. How is that done. ? Thanks for taking the time to look at it, and you are right I will change the timing on the sound versus the lighting.
 
Leaderboard? You mean the Menu?

I suppose it just exits the map via Game/Game Cache. I'll look into it.
 
Ending the game without the menu: "Game - End Game and Show/Skip scores"

Ending the game with menu: "Game - Defeat/Victory for Player"
 
Where is End Game? I expected it'd be where you said, but I can't see it.
 
It's a WEU only feature: "call EndGame( true )" is the action, add it through the "Custom Script" action.
 
Oooh.
 
So...the only way to get it to skip the Victory trigger is to use WEU?

I have never used it. Is it similar to reg. WE?

Can i get a link to it? I googled it, but couldn't find a download.
 
Ohhh. custom script too! Ok ill add it.

Thanks conan.

I would still not mind a link to WEU I would like to take a look at it.

Funny, I forgot how to get to custom scripts. :banghead:

hehe... anyone wanna throw something at me?
 
What I have to say is completely irrelevant and has nothing to do with this topic.

BUT! It's funny!

Tense said:
hehe... anyone wanna throw something at me?
Click to expand...

...Come on, people, USE YOUR IMAGINATIONS!

Ooh, the comebacks...The bloody comebacks!

:D
 
conan, get your bloody finger away from that spam reporting button. :D :D
 
I guess instead of asking, I should do the intelligent thing and look at it. BUUUUTTT,
I never procured myself any awards for higher intellectual standards. :D

Is it as user friendly as WE is?

I have only been using this thing for about 1 week. Maybe less, my progress has been significant, but I digress......

Oh, and my "humorous" comment was exactly put as desired.

I literially meant for you to throw things at me... :rolleyes:
 
WEU is just like WE except it has features and annoying bugs (more seeable and problematic ones that WE).

Oh, and since you already have an axe in your head, should I throw one in your chest? Then you can draw it on yourself :D:D
 
50+ GUI actions that do not cause many bugs. Many more icons, models, and skins. You can adds glow models through GUI, add a very flexible and easy Town Portal system that requires only 2 actions, and spell enhancers which make spell crafting easier, plus a debug system for testing maps.
 
Rinpun said:
Oh, and since you already have an axe in your head, should I throw one in your chest? Then you can draw it on yourself :D:D
Click to expand...

...........
 
XXconanXXX said:
50+ GUI actions that do not cause many bugs. Many more icons, models, and skins. You can adds glow models through GUI, add a very flexible and easy Town Portal system that requires only 2 actions, and spell enhancers which make spell crafting easier, plus a debug system for testing maps.
Click to expand...

Ok, I shall with draw to my cave.....and look at this holy grail.

By the way... Conan, would you care to comment on my trailer? :eek:
 
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