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[FogGobbler]

Hi, everybody!

I´m wondering if there is a better way of triggering a " in game cut scene".

For example, if my hero touches a "button", I want to start a in game cut scene, where the scene changes and the npc walks about.

Up to now I´ve triggered the "cut scene" in my "button"-script, set a global variable to true, changed the scene and in the scene_init file of that scene I check if the variable is true.

It works, but it seems to be a little bit clumsy. Is there a way of using events and how could I do that?

Thanks a lot for all your help and keep up the great work in this forum 

Oli

[sychron]

Depends on the effect you want to archive. What is it you find "clumsy"?

[FogGobbler]

Its sometimes a bit hard to keep track of all the global variables. That´s why I thought there could be another way.

[Mnemonic]

It's always a good idea to document the global variables you're using.

[sychron]

You could create another .inc file to keep all your globals, comment them nicely and include the file in every script using the globals. so you have a central place to store them, and you do not need to reference them in each and every script header. Plus, you get a simple way of documenting them.

[FogGobbler]

Thanks both of you for your answers. That is a good idea with keeping the globals in an external inc file.

[Jyujinkai]

carful though.. dosn't putting a new INC mean that every time it is included in a script all the globals reset to what is started in the INC file?

[odnorf]

@Jyujinkai

global MyMightyGlobalVariable

doesn't reset or set anything. It just declares it and make the script aware of its' existence. You then manipulate/use it in the scripts.

[sychron]

DONT put something like

global xyz = 0;

 in the globals.inc file ...

Simply put

global xyz; // variable present for no appearent reason

in the globals.inc file and

xyz = 0;

in your script initialising the variable value.

[Jyujinkai]

yea.. sorry that is what i meant Syc.. thanks for being more clear....

inshort.. do not put = anything in your ent.