Scene - Camera starting point

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• #1, by duartegarin Friday, 26. July 2013, 11:38 14 years ago

  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
  
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• #2, by afrlme Friday, 26. July 2013, 12:21 14 years ago

  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.

• #3, by duartegarin Wednesday, 31. July 2013, 14:37 14 years ago

  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

• #4, by afrlme Wednesday, 31. July 2013, 15:22 14 years ago

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

  game:setValue(VGameScrollPosition, {x=300, y=100})
  

  
  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)

  „

  .

• #5, by duartegarin Monday, 05. August 2013, 06:54 14 years ago

  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

• #6, by afrlme Monday, 05. August 2013, 12:37 14 years ago

  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?

• #7, by duartegarin Saturday, 10. August 2013, 14:45 14 years ago

  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?