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Gwinnell
 Post subject: Fluent Cutscenes
PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:15 pm 
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I've created a small and simple library to easily handle creating cutscenes within your games. It uses Alex Schearer (manunderground)'s Fluent Effects library.

It's aim is to:
* Simplify interactive cutscene creation code (using Fluent Effects).
* Cut down the number of lines of code needed to create cutscenes (using Fluent Effects).
* Only depend on Fluent Effects.
* Run on Java 1.5+.

What it doesn't do:
* Provide a way of parsing any form of cutscene files to create the cutscenes.

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Kudos to Alex Schearer for the great Fluent Effects base.

This code is no longer actively maintained.

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Cool, looking forward to see what this can do. If you'd like I can post FluentFx to some public repo where it'd be easier to maintain/track/file bugs if you have them.

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have a demo showing it off? :)
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i'm waiting for some example :D

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manunderground, I don't have any issues yet, but there are a few gimmicks in the library that could be addressed with a few RFEs, most of which are getters.

Timeline.getConfig(), to return the FluentConfig object that is passed in when the timeline is created.

FluentConfig.getCalls(), or similar to return a collection/array of all of the options put in using FluentConfig.add(method, start, stop, duration).

Timeline.getTotalTime(), or similar to return the total running time (in milliseconds) of the timeline, as specified e.g. using Timeline.forwards.halt(500).backwards().loop(5), or return -1 if loops indefinitely.

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Bumped up to version 1.02.
TimelineGroup object has been added.
- If you have lots of Timeline objects in your classes, you can reduce lines of code by calling update only once.
- You can retrieve the Timeline objects if you add them with a key, but the Timeline objects are removed when they are stopped(), so you will have to call start() before adding them!
- I use this for Timelines that I "fire and forget".

src | jar| docs

As a sidenote...
I seriously don't recommend using this library at the moment, I refactor things far too often locally. I am just posting updates here.

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Like the concept!! I would also like ot see a simple demo :)
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Wow, this sounds promising. Do you have any update? Cause in yout last post, you said "I don't recommend using it".

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I used Fluent Cutscenes in my game Inverse Polarity if you wanted to see something showing it off.

The name "Fluent Cutscenes" is not really appropriate. It's more like a bunch of useful utilities I've needed above the FluentFX library.

I'll be writing Inverse Polarity 2 soon enough with better cutscenes than the original so I imagine the library will become more thorough. :)

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Thanks Gwinnell! I'll look into it.
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Been working on this a little more due to the interest a few of you have taken. :)

A few possible requests to the Alex and the underlying Fluent FX library:
Timeline.pingpong();
Timeline.pingpong(int times);
... and the few mentioned in the above post.

Just to clarify, pingpong() would be looping from start to finish and then from finish to start, similar to Slick's animation class.

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Changes:
CutsceneConfiguration object for defining actions/events when reading in Cutscene's from files.
See Cutscene.create(String file) and Cutscene.setConfiguration(CutsceneConfiguration cc).
Completely removed AnimationObject and Cutscenable.

Example cutscene file (No DTD yet):
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<cutscene>
   <events>
      <static name="SET_TEXT" params="param1, param2, param3" at="200"/>
      <static name="PAUSE" params="" at="201"/>
      <tweened name="MOVE_OBJECT" params="" at="200" duration="50" repeattype="PINGPONG" repeatamount="5"/>
   </events>
</cutscene>


Version 1.03.
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Sorry for the double post.
zenzei, I said "I don't recommend using this library" because it isn't as easy as I'd like it to be to create cutscenes, usage is a bit gimmicky, and I've got ideas I've not put in yet.

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Fluent Cutscenes 1.04

Mostly safe for use, see todo list!

Changes:
- Cutscenes can now wait on a particular key before it will continue. It's the equivilant of pause() unpause() but with a keypress.
- Events that are not affected by the cutscene state begin with "addIndepentant".

Todo:
- Multiple cutscene configurations so it's not all in one definition.
- Possibly, waiting on more than one key, if you'd find that helpful.
- XML DTD.
- A good working example.

Version 1.04.
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It's important to note that all of the cutscene methods named below are implemented by the developer, that's how the cutscene files work with their configurations. I could have easily combined the "WAIT_FOR_KEY" code into "SET_TEXT" with an extra parameter.

Example Cutscene file (No DTD yet, again):
Code:
<cutscene>
   <events>
      <static name="START" params="" at="500"/>
      <static name="START_MUSIC" params="RECAP_THEME" at="0"/>
      <static name="DISABLE_PLAYER_MOVEMENT" params="" at="0"/>
      <static name="SET_TEXT" params="IPO# Hey, Opi. What are you doing?" delimiter="#" at="50"/>
      <static name="WAIT_FOR_KEY" params="KEY_ENTER" at="50"/>
      <static name="SET_TEXT" params="OPI# IPO!\nI'm just lockin' up some ol' blind people! for fun!" delimiter="#" at="100"/>
      <static name="WAIT_FOR_KEY" params="KEY_ENTER" at="100"/>
      <static name="SET_TEXT" params="IPO# But that's not fair! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!" delimiter="#" at="140"/>
      <static name="WAIT_FOR_KEY" params="KEY_ENTER" at="140"/>
      <static name="SET_TEXT" params="OPI# Hah! Like I care?!\nHow are you going to stop me, eh?" delimiter="#" at="180"/>
      <static name="WAIT_FOR_KEY" params="KEY_ENTER" at="180"/>
      <static name="SET_TEXT" params="IPO# Uhh, I'll just follow you around and undo all of your doing!" delimiter="#" at="220"/>
      <static name="WAIT_FOR_KEY" params="KEY_ENTER" at="220"/>
      <static name="SET_TEXT" params="OPI# Just you wait!\nI'll turn your world upside down!" delimiter="#" at="260"/>
      <static name="WAIT_FOR_KEY" params="KEY_ENTER" at="260"/>
      <static name="ENABLE_PLAYER_MOVEMENT" params="" at="400"/>
      <static name="END_MAP" params="" at="500"/>
      <!-- <static name="END" params="" at="500"/> -->
   </events>
</cutscene>

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really intersting, Gwinnell keep us informed :D (and build a jnpl example :D )

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