[Akalabeth Angel]

Okay so I'm trying to do a cutscene so questions will go here:

#1 I'm trying to centre text for a cutscene. I know that show subtitle gives centre vertically and horizontally in argument 7 and 8 but when I add the subtitle it doesn't let me add data past option 6 (fade in time). I'm using fred open 3.6.10. I'm not sure if argument 7+ it dependent upon there being an image. At this point, an image might be the best thing since the text is SOOOO small on the highest resolution I can do (1280x1024) and most people seem to be running even higher resolutions than I am.


More questions may follow but this is my main problem for now.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Did you try add operator->logical-true?  Seems to be a boolean operator. 

[Akalabeth Angel]

Did you try add operator->logical-true?  Seems to be a boolean operator. 

Ah okay, that makes sense. I thought it would be like 1 or 0 (true or false) sort of thing. Probably because I haven't touched FRED in a year or something.

Thanks

[Snail]

Oh, so that's how it works.

* Snail is a dumbass

[Akalabeth Angel]

Though I tried to make an image and it still doesn't show up on my screen so I dunno. Tried both .tga and .bmp (though I think .bmp wouldn't work in the first place). Trashman used a .tga for his CotS so I'm pretty sure it should have worked.

[Akalabeth Angel]

SOOOOOO . . . is it possible to start with a black screen and then "fade in" from there? Rather than start in mission, fade out and then fade in?? Because cinematically, fade ins from black at the start is pretty common.

The only way I could figure to do this, is to create a black "colour card" we call them (in the industry). Basically a big black (or white) jpeg, certain it on the screen using subtitles and then fade it out. Hopefully in mission it is centred, and covers the entire screen or else it'll look supremely bad.

[General Battuta]

 

Why not just fade-out with a duration of 0 at mission start, then fade in?

That's what I've done, works fine.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Why not just fade-out with a duration of 0 at mission start, then fade in?

That's what I've done, works fine.

Oh yeah I guess that would work too. I think in my brain I'm always expecting an option to "start in state X" rather than "move to state X in no time at all", that's something about FRED I have to keep in mind.