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Title: Movie making question
Post by: trooper543 on 07 Dec 2007, 23:16:40

Hi there chaps

what i am trying to do at present is to create a movie in arma but using muliplayer as i have two people that will carry out the acting side to acheive what i want. How do i get the camera. sqs to only apply to me and not effect the other players?

any help would be much appreciated

Title: Re: Movie making question
Post by: Wolfrug on 08 Dec 2007, 00:04:45

This probably belongs in the MP side, but...

AFAIK, camera.sqs is Local? As is all kinds of camera-scripty things. Otherwise everytime someone new logged into Evolution they'd get the little Evolution video + music, eh?  :D

But, err, MP scripting makes no sense to me anyway.

Wolfrug out.

Title: Re: Movie making question
Post by: Surdus Priest on 08 Dec 2007, 03:03:35

you will need to apply a third party script into the game from your game folder.

the only time i have seen this done is with the TKC cheatpack, but im sure everyone knows that lol.

an addon may be required.

Title: Re: Movie making question
Post by: trooper543 on 08 Dec 2007, 10:47:39

Surdus Priest

Mate once again thanks for the help could you please explain where i can find such an addon or how do i go about setting this up

thanks

Title: Re: Movie making question
Post by: Surdus Priest on 08 Dec 2007, 20:13:09

place this in the camera mans (your unit) init field:

this exec "camera.sqs"

then tell your friends to press "V".

this should abort them from the script, and leave you to use the camera.

Title: Re: Movie making question
Post by: JasonO on 09 Dec 2007, 17:11:44

You could also have a trigger with one of the following conditions

a) if your the server (hosting the mission) you could use this:

Condition:

Code: [Select]

IsServer
b) you could also make it so only players with your player name can use it:

Condition:

Code: [Select]

name player == YourPlayerName
Replacing YourPlayerName with your actuall ingame name.

Then, the activation would simply be

Code: [Select]

player exec "camera.sqs"
A bit more advanced, but what Surdus Priest said will work - this is just incase you have a reason why they can't press V.. (for some reason).