Easy way to make cutscenes to your games · By
After investigating this I noticed that the camera functions don’t seem to work properly when using them in the creation code of the cutscene object. I will try to find some workaround for this in some future update, because it is kind of limiting.
Also I noticed that you were using for example camera_get_view_width(view_camera[0])-100 when it probably should be camera_get_view_x(view_camera[0])+camera_get_view_width(view_camera[0])-100. But that doesn’t matter here because it doesn’t work.
So there seems to be 2 options:
1. Use Draw GUI
You can get the result you want without the camera functions. Just follow the instructions in the manual.
2. Edit the textbox_draw script manually
For example I tried this (I kept the cutscene_dialogue_position in the cutscene, even if it doesn’t do anything, because otherwise this code doesn’t run):
And it seems to work well. This only sets the position of the text box, everything else goes automatically to the correct positions. If you want to change the position of other things, you will need to add more code like this here. (I can give more examples if needed.)
Hope this helps.
So, i've been experimentng with that and it still leaves me in the woods. I am not sure what am I doing wrong, however.
>I am using DrawGUI, so i have followed the instruction and changed the draw_gui parameter to true in the Draw_GUI event of the textbox object.
> My textbox_draw script now includes the code you have suggested:
> Finally, the instance triggering the cutscene on the level is as follows:
And yet when the cutscene triggers, the textbox stretched outside of the viewport, with the text itself also being drawn somewhere in the middle (I took the screenshot of my lower third of the screen and this is how it looks like when the dialogue triggers).
All the thoughts/solutions are highly appreciated.
I’m not sure if I explained it well, but use either Draw GUI OR the other option. Not both of them.
So try commenting out the code you added to the textbox_draw script. Then you can use the cutscene_dialogue_position normally (no need to use camera functions because it’s using Draw GUI).
Hopefully this clarifies things. Try it and let me know if you notice any problem.
