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Wintermute Engine => Technical forum => Topic started by: Mikael on April 04, 2007, 07:14:28 PM

Title: Crossfading transition
Post by: Mikael on April 04, 2007, 07:14:28 PM

Is there any way to crossfade to scenes into one another during scene change?

Thanks!

Mikael

Title: Re: Crossfading transition
Post by: Mnemonic on April 04, 2007, 08:39:56 PM

Not easily, no.

Title: Re: Crossfading transition
Post by: Mikael on April 04, 2007, 08:45:33 PM

OK, thanks.

Mikael

Title: Re: Crossfading transition
Post by: redfox on April 11, 2007, 04:59:07 PM

So, just out of interest, what might be the 'Not easily' method of fading scenes from one to another?

 :)

I would like to change scenes (both with 3d actors), and fade the two scenes together.

Thanks

Title: Re: Crossfading transition
Post by: Mnemonic on April 11, 2007, 06:01:01 PM

Well, I was thinking something like saving a screenshot to a temporary file, changing the scene, loading the screenshot into an entity, making the crossfade... probably not feasible. Or you could make a plugin :)

Title: Re: Crossfading transition
Post by: metamorphium on April 11, 2007, 06:19:40 PM

how about having a loader which would load dynamically a background from the next scene, make the crossfade
and then ChangeScene without FadeIn FadeOut?

Title: Re: Crossfading transition
Post by: Mnemonic on April 11, 2007, 06:34:27 PM

Yup, that might work (more or less) for 1st person games, so Mikael might probably try to use this approach.

Title: Re: Crossfading transition
Post by: redfox on April 14, 2007, 01:43:40 PM

Thanks for your ideas.   :)