[Starman01]

Hello,

I'm fighting for quite some time with the cutscene.tbl. I'm trying to make the cutscenes selectable in the techroom, so that the player can view them again (of course only according to the campaign-prozess).

Well, I'm actually really unexperienced with that table, so any help would be appreciated. However, after reading the wiki it seems that a lot of stuff is hardcoded and maybe it's not even possible to achive what I want. Renaming Moviefiles to match the original maybe hardcoded names would be no problem.

Here is the situation :

We have 3 Movie-Files.

Intro.avi   (played after pressing "run" on the launcher and before the login screen comes up)
prologue_intro.avi     (played when the campaign is started, right before the first mission)
prologue_outro.avi    (played after the last campaign-mission, but before the credit mission (which is the last one in the campaign string).

So how do I have to change the cutscene.tbl so that they will show up in the techroom. When I try, I usually crash the game.

intro.avi  (already displayed from the very start, that's o.k.)
prologue_intro.avi     (should be accessable after the first mission is complete)
prologue_outro.avi     (should be accessable after the last mission (not the creditmission) is complete


Thanks in advance for any helpful thoughts

Starman

[WMCoolmon]

I believe that you would do the latter two in the campaign editor, and you'd set the first one up as just being called 'intro'.

[Starman01]

I'm not sure I get what you mean. Surely the two files with the prologue-addition are setup in the campaign, and the other one isn't.
I don't have problems with movie playback in the game, I just want them to be selectable in the techroom/cutscene interface once they are played the first time, that what don't work.

AFAIK setting this up, is to be done over the cutscene.tbl, but whatever change I did, it crashed.

[taylor]

AFAIK setting this up, is to be done over the cutscene.tbl, but whatever change I did, it crashed.

Can you post the modified cutscene.tbl for us to look at (or post it in internal if there is something private in there)?

I haven't actually tried it in game yet, but something like this should work (note that the movie filename extensions don't matter):

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; Cutscene.tbl
; Will contain data for :
; 1.) cutscene names
; 2.) cutscene descriptions
; 3.) cutscene location on CD
;
; Do not change the ordering of the sections in this table. Also do not add items to the list

#Cutscenes

;;
;; INTRO
;;
$Filename: intro.mve
$Name: Introduction
$Description:
XSTR(
"Wing Commander Saga Introduction", -1)
$end_multi_text
$cd: 1

;;
;; PROLOGUE_INTRO
;;
$Filename: prologue_intro.mve
$Name: Prologue Introduction
$Description:
XSTR(
"WCS Prologue Intro", -1)
$end_multi_text
$cd: 1

;;
;; PROLOGUE_OUTRO
;;
$Filename: prologue_outro.mve
$Name: Prologue Finale
$Description:
XSTR(
"WCS Prologue Outro", -1)
$end_multi_text
$cd: 1

#End


[Starman01]

Sorry, I don't have the crashing table anymore, but actually I didn't do anything except changing the first filename.

Yours is at least not crashing the game, but I still can't see anything else in the techroom except for the "introduction".
Must the movies be activated for the techroom somehow like "tech-add-intel" or something similar ?

[taylor]

The movies have to be in cutscenes.tbl before you get to that point in the campaign for them to show up.  If you restart the campaign and play the first mission then that movie should show up in the techroom.  The intro movie always shows up (it must also be the first movie listed in cutscenes.tbl), but everything else needs to be triggered by actually playing it through the campaign.

So there are 3 things that you have to make sure of:
1) The movies have to be listed in cutscenes.tbl
2) The movies have to be referenced in the campaign file
4) The movies will only get added to the techroom if you are actually playing through the campaign (ie, playing from the simroom won't do it)

I just tried it myself with the tbl I listed and the Prologue Intro movie was available in the techroom as expected.

[Starman01]

I'll try it with playing the campaign again.

[Starman01]

Hm, seems to work, at least with prologue_intro, so the other one should work too. Strange it didn't worked in my variant.

Thanks for your help Taylor