Portals... Anyone good with them? Advice | Forums

[Meenie77]

So... Apart from dont use them

Any advice.. I'll tell you what I'm trying to do

Jump the rider from one point on the DL (in one area) to another point (new area) but have a cut scene during the jump

I've currently got the rider frozen for the duration of the scene, but it doesn't seem to work too well

Is there a better way of doing this?

Cheers

[Meenie77]

I've got an area trigger at the same point as the 1st portal which triggers the rider freeze and cut scene for a specific duration

Is there a better way to code this?

[sparkierjonesz]

let the portal trigger a camera event, delay, camera event back to game camera
set the delay of portal to the lenght of the cutscene

[Meenie77]

Cheers buddy

so the portal can act as a trigger?
also.. The delay on the portal.. Is that delay set on the 1st or second portal? Or same on both?

[sparkierjonesz]

you would have to do some tests for that and see what happens because i didn't mess around that much yet with portals

camera event, delay filter( same amount as delay ticks of portal), camera event

[Meenie77]

Thanks dude..

might try this out on seperate track

have a play about with the settings

[Barrybarfly]

In the portal settings you can adjust how long the rider is "in" the portal for. So set a delay filter to the same amount and use this to determine when the cutscene returns to the game camera. You may need to use an area trigger just before the first portal to trigger the cutscene though. But essentially there shouldnt be a need to actually freeze the rider. You can also control wether the bike/rider maintain their momentum when leaving the portal.

[Meenie77]

In the portal settings you can adjust how long the rider is "in" the portal for. So set a delay filter to the same amount and use this to determine when the cutscene returns to the game camera. You may need to use an area trigger just before the first portal to trigger the cutscene though. But essentially there shouldnt be a need to actually freeze the rider. You can also control wether the bike/rider maintain their momentum when leaving the portal.

I was wondering if it was my area trigger that was causing the issues
Will try without the freeze trigger and see how I go

Thanks guys

[Meenie77]

Portal delay worked a treat

couldn't figure how to get the portal to activate the camera event

but using an area trigger at the same point of portal worked well enough

cheers boys

[rlmergeuser]

Id love to see the scripting you used for the portal.