Scene - Camera starting point

Hello,

I want my see to start at the far right of my background image.

And then, after some text, scroll to the characters of the far left.

1) I have not managed to find how you can do an action of "wait x seconds".
2) I do not know how to set a starting point for the camera. It seems to always align itself with the active character.
3) Also can i have text displayed without it being from any character? (Ex: "In some distant galaxy..")

Thanks in advance,

Duarte

yes, yes & yes...

1 & 3 are both found under miscellaneous action part section:
pause & display text (display text under misc is narration text & can be manually position wherever you like)

2. scene > center scene on character permanently (tick "clear centering") stops scene being focused on the character - make sure you uncheck it later on after you are done. then you can use scroll scene to position or object action part or possibly Lua if you are feeling a little more adventurous.

Hello AFRL-me,

Thanks very much for your help.

I managed to "unlock" camera from char using your instructions but I am still unable to "start" scene in a different place than the characters.

If I start with scroll to position it will do exactly that..scroll..And I wanted to start the scene in a specific place.

Can I acomplish this in the editor?

Kind regards,

Duarte

yes you can use a single line of Lua to set the current position:

execute a script >

replace 300 & 100 with the co-ordinates that you want the scene position (camera) to be positioned on, co-ordinate is top left corner & not center.

“

GameScrollPosition / t_point /Upper left corner of current scroll position (on current scene)

„

.

Perfect!

It works! It does a scroll on y and then on x, is it possible to scroll directly to position (in this case diagonally)?

Thanks in advance for the great support, I must say I am REALLY impressed.

Regards,

Duarte

the line of Lua I gave you should force camera to the co-ordinates you entered immediately?

scroll diagonally? do you mean with an editor action part or using Lua?

I was meaning when I use the action scroll to position (or to object).

It doesn't scroll directly to the point, it goes down (y) and then scrolls on X.

I suppose the best way to approach this would be using LUA?