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MrUniq
05-12-2004, 12:43 AM
I have a van prefab(its grouped with a animated DO) and I have it where when u shoot it enuf it stops its moving animations and basically blows up.

Now I have a character that I want to jump out of the van before it blows. Problem is that with the character inside the van...the character seems to interfere with the animation. To solve that, I tried to simply teleport him into the van's cab after the van stopped..but the game won't teleport the character......but it should because I have teleported characters to van cabs before....but there were no animations to move the van.

I don't know how to solve it, It was a cool idea..i don't want to ditch it. If anyone can help i'd appreciate it.

CoZO
05-12-2004, 04:27 AM
Why not simply create a whole separate room with a van prefab and when you shoot the vechicle enough it will trigger a simple cinematic where the guy leaps out from a fake van and then you'll simply let the game jump back to the players view and have the guy stand next to the 'real' messed up van.

Sound simple enough?

MrUniq
05-12-2004, 12:12 PM
Yea I may do that....It's an outside level with lots of "scenery" but maybe I can dupe just enough to make it look like the outside level.

CoZO
05-13-2004, 12:52 AM
Or simply use a fixed camera angle so that it wont reveal the surroundings, this usually gives the scene some nice cinematic feel.