Leadwerks switching between cameras

[martyj]

I will be starting to introduce cutscenes in my game. My design idea is to use a secondary camera other than the player's camera, using SetRenderTarget on the secondary camera to tell the game which camera to render to the screen buffer.

 

I was wondering if you call Hide() on a Camera, will it not render?

 

I don't want to render the player's camera and the cutscene Camera at the same time.

 

Thanks,

Marty

[thehankinator]

Hidden cameras do not render a scene. If you hide the player player camera and show your cutscene camera there may not be a need to use the render target.

[Rick]

You should be able to put place pivots as markers and move the actual camera between those all. Side note, you might want to look into coroutines for cutscenes. They can give a nice and easy way to manage sequential things like in cutscenes. With a coroutine function you can have code that reads like:

 

MoveToPointAsync(...)

PlaySoundAsync(...)

ShowText(...)

 

etc. for your entire cutscene. Which is much better than managing the state of everything on your own.

 

 

I have a cutscene entity script that handles managing some of this stuff. The coroutinue function is what ends up being in it's own file having it's own function and what gets ran for the cutscene.

[martyj]

I was planning something similar to coroutines. Basically specifying points for the camera and the time between movements. Then specifying a list of time frames where actions occur and function callbacks to perform operations such as falling rocks, ect.

[Rick]

It'll be interesting to see what you come up with without using coroutines. I can't even imagine in my mind doing it without them.