Hi,
yesterday I tried the combination AC & Cinema Director for the first time and it is really cool. Creating cutscenes in CD seems more convenient. What I am struggling with is dialogue in cutscenes.
I would like to use AC dialogue due to translatability and lip sync and portraits. What I do currently is in an action list:
- Start CD cutscene, don't wait until finish
- Pause 3s
- Play speech
- Pause 4s
- Play speech
- Hope everything is somehow in sync
While that works it is really hard to get the timing correct. Is there a way from CD to trigger AC dialogue?
What I would love to have is a CD event that will advance my actionlist one item forward, so that I can replace all "pause" steps above with "wait for CD event". Is that possible? This would make it super easy to use actionlists in combination with CD.
Cheers, Robert
Comments
To run an AC Cutscene, you just need to run it's "Interact" function. There should be a way for CD to send an "Interact" message to a custom object.
Alternatively, have you tried running a CD Cutscene in parallel, and just having the pause / speech / pause etc in a separate branch. Take a look at the "ActionList: Run in parallel" Action.