You're in luck - someone over at mphq asked me about this yesterday.
Ironically, I was going to post a thread about this, and then forgot. graemlins/doh.gif
Here's what I wrote:
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If you search around the official tutorials and the MaxEd help reference (the one with all of the fsm documentation) you'll come across the commands for showing and hiding graphic novels.
The main ones are:
MaxPayne_GraphicNovelMode->...
MPGNM_Dump
MPGNM_MarkAllNotesRead
MPGNM_PickUpNote
MPGNM_RemoveAllNotes
MPGNM_RemoveNote
I did this ages ago, but I think this is how I got it to work:
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maxpayne_graphicnovelmode->mpgnm_markallnotesread();
maxpayne_graphicnovelmode->mpgnm_pickupnote(j1);
x_modeswitch->s_modeswitch(graphicnovel); [/code]</blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">You need the 'markallnotesread' at the very start of your level.
'pickupnote'(j1) Loads the graphic novel j1, into the game's memory, and the final command switches to 'graphic novel mode'.
Then all you have to do is edit an existing graphic novel jpg and rename it. Oh, and you will need to check ..Data/Database/GraphicNovelPages/GraphicNovelPages.txt for the names of existing graphicnovels in the game's database.
Alternatively, you could try to create one from scratch. I haven't got round to trying this yet (since I've pretty much given up on mapping) but basically it's a rectangle mesh in kf2 format with the comic as a texture map - you could try creating one in 3ds max or viewing an existing one in Milkshape.
Hopefully that is all you need to get started - you'll need to experiment with it a bit, though. images/icons/smile.gif
[ 12-11-2002, 12:01 PM: Message edited by: Maddieman ]