Cutscene Problems

Hey there,

I'm struggling with a cutscene for a few days now. I started the complete scene over and over again and now i came to the point, where i just can't go on. Usually i can do quite complex stuff in construct2, but i really struggle with something that shouldnt be that hard to do.

The scene is about: Camera scrolls to character > Character playing animation > Camera scrolls back to where enemy appear

This is done by triggering the story-variables for the different sections of the scene. Sorry i can only provide those 2 pictures of my event sheet.

Now what i don't understand, when the variable reaches 3, i saw in debug mode that it changes back to variable 1 and i kinda mixes the whole process with the 3rd part, ending in a total mess.

I couldnt get my head around what exactly is happening here. This is maybe the third time i did this scene, each time with different programming, but none ever get me the right results.

I really really need help with this, what is happening here?

Okay, i just gave up on doing complex cutscenes in construct. The story-variable strangely messes up going up to 7, even if it's impossible getting that high, cause i never use add amount for this variable, only used "set to".

Probably just add prerendered animations.

Making cutscenes is very possible..

Maybe you should lose the "wait" actions and use timers ( or wait for signal actions)..

I don't see any triggered events..

LittleStain I tried that before, but thx anyway!

LittleStain I tried that before, but thx anyway!

It would take 1 minute to get it working..

Replace the wait with the timer behaviour..

The way you are doing it now every tick the wait action is called..

LittleStain Ok if you say so, i'm gonna try it again, but as i said, i'm struggling for days with this and almost tried everything possible way known to me.

Anyway gonna test it again!

Thx Littlestain!

Okay, i had to start all over cause i deleted the whole cutscene. I never used timer before for this kind of stuff. So now the timer "story1" starts with 6 seconds and should set the "story-variable" to 1, right? But the timer doesnt work in this setup, am i misunderstanding the use of timers here?

Well, you are (re)starting the timer every tick, while you only should trigger it once..

Oh stupid me! Thank you!

Sorry to bother you again, i thought it's the "trigger once" which was missing. Now i tried it with that, but still doesn't work. I don't understand why...

I don't have any problems with the timer in my battle-system, they all work fine.

Guess i still have a lot to learn...

I'm not sure why event 12, 13, 15 and 16 all have the same condition..

If it's true in event 12, it has to be true in its subevents..

Also I would make event 18 a top level event..

Event 18 is already a triggered event, so the trigger once subevent is not needed..

Using trigger once as a subevent could be an issue, why not put it as a condition in the event itself..

(you seem very fond of unneeded subevents)

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work than, but I don't know if any of the events not in the screenshot are conflicting..

It seems there are more subevents of the story=0 below..

Okay. I did it all over again, just to be sure. Even made a new timer and a new variable, just for testing. I don't know what it is, my other timers work fine, but this one won't work.

This should work if you have no conflicting events..

I recreated it and all is working..

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48563442/story.capx

LittleStain Thank you so much for your effort! I also like to thank scirra for the great, friendly and fast support! I guess there is something going wrong on my layout, otherwise it should work like in your example.

Just to be clear, I have nothing to do with Scirra other than being a Construct2 user, like yourself..

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