lua jank

[civic brook]

i would like to have a proper cutscene at the start of my map a la https://youtu.be/p0MdZZx4UIA?t=18861 using images instead of the ingame engine. im using a hd styleground from maddies helping hand and would love to make the cutscene skippable if possible, so preferably avoiding the theo crystal on a move block trick or whatever. is this doable?

[void tiger]

with something like this you might need to resort to doing a c# cutscene and stealing a page from farewell's ending cutscene

[civic brook]

who would be the relevant person to ask about that

[civic brook]

realising this is wordy as hell tldr i wanna have a dialog cutscene over a hd image at the start of my map

[void tiger]

yea ik, its just that this is not something lua cutscenes would be designed to do

maybe someone in code modding or modding general would like to give it a stab idk

[civic brook]

been trying to work it out and its seeming like i could do it with lua

ive got the hd stylground working already

[void tiger]

well yes technically you can do it with lua

[civic brook]

i would just have to camera target madeline offscreen and have a teleport on flag trigger at the end

[void tiger]

its just that i have no familiarity with it and it's not really what it's designed to do

[civic brook]

yh 🐈

if it works it works i guess

[void tiger]

gl

[gritty copper]

i feel like lua cutscenes should work fine

just don't have it take away control, and have it move you to the end when skipped

i guess you'd also need to figure out how to make it end naturally if you fall to the end

unless lua cutscenes is set up to automatically end it properly when you switch rooms

[civic brook]

got around to tackling the lua

either i dont know how flags work or i dont know how vivhelper teleport trigger works 🦭

the dialog plays out correctly then doesnt teleport

[vagrant shadow]

Required flags sounds like it still needs the player to actually step in the trigger

[civic brook]

the player is inside the trigger already during the cutscene

[vagrant shadow]

Depending on how the trigger is written, that's not guaranteed to be enough

Most triggers activate on entry

[civic brook]

ill chuck in a jump() to get out and back in

(madeline is offscreen here anyways)

ok that activated the trigger but also crashed the game 🦭

System.Exception: TeleportTarget not found! This error usually means that no TeleportTarget exists in the room set in your Instant Teleport Trigger.

ah

yep that fixes it!!

is it possible to have it fade to black before teleporting

like screenwipe or smth

[vagrant shadow]

You could probably figure out how to do a wipe from the cutscene

Or maybe see if the teleport trigger supports it

[civic brook]

the trigger does not appear to

i could end cutscene on warp then just start another one 🤷

this is true

[vagrant shadow]

Yeah, that would save you from using a trigger

[civic brook]

absolute coordinates being global and not relative to the room?

[vagrant shadow]

I would assume so

[civic brook]

the command works but it does a screen transition which is messy with my hd styleground

[vagrant shadow]

Screen transition meaning it scrolls over?

[civic brook]

yeah

[vagrant shadow]

Can you show the exact command you used?

[civic brook]

stays on screen til the transition is complete then disappears instantly

instantTeleportTo(136,120,a01,none)

[vagrant shadow]

You need the room name in quotes

Also just leave the intro type out if you don't need it. Don't put none, that's not a thing

[civic brook]

ok this is odd

cuts to black like its mid transition and stays there

[vagrant shadow]

What's the command now?

[civic brook]

instantTeleportTo(136,120,"a01")

hitting tilde tells me the teleport happened

[vagrant shadow]

Does tilde show the player position?

[civic brook]

actually

right room at least

dunno where madeline is

[vagrant shadow]

Cursor position I guess is helpful, but those coordinates seem a bit off

[civic brook]

i think the camera is still in the previous room?

(the room im teleporting from is directly below the one im teleporting to)

[vagrant shadow]

What if you try teleportTo and not instantTeleportTo

[civic brook]

instant teleport as intended

still no screenwipe but ill mess around with that fourth parameter see if that gets me anywhere

[vagrant shadow]

I think the fourth parameter is for like a walk-in entry or something, I suspect it doesn't do screenwipe

Could be wrong though

[civic brook]

yeah entry type as in how a chapter starts i think

ok got it!!!!!!

alright next challenge talk to badeline

got microliths documentation here lets see if we can do it

local badeline = nil

local function badeline_appears(left_side)
  -- determine the position and flipping properties
  local pos_x, scale
  if left_side then
    pos_x = player.Position.X - 18
    scale = 1
  else
    pos_x = player.Position.X + 18
    scale = -1
  end
  local pos_y = player.Position.Y - 8

  -- create and add a new badeline dummy entity
  badeline = celeste.BadelineDummy(vector2(pos_x, pos_y))
  badeline.Sprite.Scale = vector2(scale, 1.0)
  getLevel():Add(badeline)

  -- play sound + effect
  getLevel().Displacement:AddBurst(badeline.Center, 0.5, 8, 32, 0.5)
  playSound("event:/char/badeline/maddy_split", badeline.Position)

  -- wait until the next frame so all that can take effect properly
  wait()
end

local function badeline_vanishes()
  -- tell the badeline entity to disappear
  badeline:Vanish()
  Input.Rumble(getEnum("Celeste.RumbleStrength", "Medium"), getEnum("Celeste.RumbleLength", "Medium"))
  -- clear the stored variable so the memory can be used for something else
  badeline = nil

  -- wait until the next frame
  wait()
end

function onBegin()
  disableMovement()
  badeline_appears()
  say("a01")
  badeline_vanishes()
  wait(2)
  badeline_appears()
  say("a01_2")
  badeline_vanishes()
end

function onEnd()
  enableMovement()
end

cant handle having badeline_appears() after badeline_vanishes() apparently

[civic brook]

still nothing

it plays the first bit of dialog here then ends the cutscene as if the second one wasnt there

also badeline stays there if i skip cutscene but thats a future problem

ok nvm real easy fix

lua jank

[civic brook]

Why did this get ✅ 'd I am still dealing with lua jank

The

  say("a01_2")
  badeline_vanishes()

Is being ignored here

[civic brook]

different issue the cutscene replays every time the room is reloaded can i disable that

[void tiger]

its a property on the cutscene trigger

[civic brook]

See the thing is

That property is trigger on every room reload versus trigger every time I enter the trigger

[void tiger]

i swear theres a property which just prevents loading the cutscene if it already played

[civic brook]

I turned my pc off now but I am pretty sure there's no property for it

Unless I'm dumb

[thorny vapor]

yeah there's a once per session option

was added 5 months ago

[civic brook]

Oh yeah that tracks my laptop is super behind on updates

[thorny vapor]

[civic brook]

[civic brook]

still stuck on this one btw

[civic brook]

still playing on every respawn

[thorny vapor]

is your everest up to date

[civic brook]

almost certainly not

one moment

[thorny vapor]

step 0 of getting help with an issue is making sure all your stuff is up to date

[civic brook]

yeah ik

maybe if im lucky itll magically resolve my main issue too

ok yep updating everest made the cutscene work as intended

im still chopping off the end part tho so confirming thats a me issue

tried adding the chopped off part as a second cutscene right next to the first

just as a "close enough"

and the second one is not appearing