A little help

[Gouveia]

Hey folks! I'm trying to learn how to code now but I wanna know this things:

 

1-)How to make the cutscene widescreen?

2-)How to correctly use fade?

3-)If I'm gonna change the player model, do I need to request that model first?

4-)How to make a package fully functional? Mine makes it's properties at the start of the game(eg:If you pick that package, you get 5000, but you only get that when you start the game).

5-)How to make fully ivunerable(sp?) cars? only set car_immunities 1 1 1 1 ?

6-)How do I check if two or more actors are dead? only use:

If 1

actor <actor name> dead

actor <actor 2 name> dead

 

is that code right?

7-)How to make an actor attack the player/other actor?

 

And finally:

How to make a car buy icon? when i go to the icon, I spend some money, the screen fades and the car spawn.

 

That's all(for the moment). All of this is for GTA3

 

P.S.: I can make missions and all the basic stuff, but I can't get that to work...

[ceedj]

If you con do "missions and basic stuff" then you can do this.

 

Like everyone says: Consult orginal code. I'm about 95% sure everything you asked about is in a main.scm for gta3. How about showing how you've gone about tackling this yourself, so people can see your progress?

[Bigun]

1-)How to make the cutscene widescreen?

 

I'll give you a few pointers, however WTF is up with that question. Is it that hard to look for opcodes with "widescreen" in their name?

 

 

2-)How to correctly use fade?

Consult original code. Opcodes of interest: 016A,0169,016B (conditional opcode to check if it's still fading). I take these from SA, but its likely the same in GTA3.

 

 

3-)If I'm gonna change the player model, do I need to request that model first?

Most likely; however even if not, it won't do any harm to do so. Just check on your own, really.

 

 

4-)How to make a package fully functional? Mine makes it's properties at the start of the game(eg:If you pick that package, you get 5000, but you only get that when you start the game).

 

I'm not entirely sure what you meant. Probably a pickup that does something, right? Well, just create_pickup of any model you wish, and use the conditional check 'is_pickup picked_up' to see if it's picked up - if it is, then do whatever rewards, like adding money, spawning a car-whatever.

 

 

5-)How to make fully ivunerable(sp?) cars? only set car_immunities 1 1 1 1 ?

 

Yes, that's about it. It also won't hurt to periodically set their health to 9999 - even with immunities, if the car is flipped, health still gradually drops (and it will eventually catch fire and explode).

 

 

6-)How do I check if two or more actors are dead? only use:

If 1

  actor <actor name> dead

  actor <actor 2 name> dead

is that code right?

 

Well, yes, pretty much (depends on how you construct your label).

 

7-)How to make an actor attack the player/other actor?

 

Use 'attack'/'kill'/'hate' or whatever opcodes. In SA you have 05E2.

 

 

And finally:

How to make a car buy icon? when i go to the icon, I spend some money, the screen fades and the car spawn.

 

That's all(for the moment). All of this is for GTA3

 

 

P.S.: I can make missions and all the basic stuff, but I can't get that to work...

Missions aren't quite basic, therefore it's pretty weird you can't get these relatively simple things to work. Really - just imitate original code. Look for where/when what you want to do is done in original game, and imitate that code.

[Gouveia]

Thanks Bigun. Oh, i've found widescreen now... Thanks! And in the fading i have to set Fade color to 0 0 0, then use fade 1000 ms and fade 1 (back) 1000 ms? For the missions that I talked about, I know how to make simply go from A to B and Pick-this-and-deliver missions...