Disable the player during Cinema director cutscene + reactivate player after

MinpinStudios

I bought the cinema suite yesterday and started playing with it a little tonight. I got a cutscene to play with a hotspot/interaction so that seem to work fine. My problem though is that I want to disable my character during the cutscene and reactivate it when the cutscene is over because I want to control the animations etc of my player with Cinema suite. What is the best way to achieve this?

ChrisIceBox

If your Player's Animation engine is set to Custom, he will cease to be animated by AC at all (even if you don't supply a custom script name).  You can set this through script with the following command:

AC.KickStarter.player.SetAnimEngine (AnimationEngine.Custom);

If you don't want to involve scripting, you could alternatively hide the Player and replace with a similar model that you have total control over.

MinpinStudios

I tried Object/Visibility/Invisible but that did nothing because nothing happens when I put my player prefab in the "Object to affect" since AC creates a new instance of it when I play the scene?

What I´m after is pretty much a Player/disable when my cutscene runs and Player/enable when the cutscene is over. 

ChrisIceBox

You can disable the player systems using the Engine: Change systems Action.  However, the standard animations will still play, because this will still be driven by the Animation engine - I've given you the steps needed to get around that.  Instead of hiding the player with visibilty, try moving him out of view with Object: Teleport.

MinpinStudios

Oh ok so the player/disable was under Engine: It works great now, Thanks!

Mathias

Sorry for bumping an old thread - but are you sure that you set Object Visibilty to invisible and checked the box "affect children"?