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Two 'CutScenes' will now be added to the 'Double Plus Maze'. We will add CutScenes to Room 3 and Room 2. CutScenes are a way to present many images, text, and sounds to players.
Find the Mazes folder...
Open it...
Open the 'Double Plus Maze' folder...
Open the '0003.txt' file...
This CutScene will show in Room 3 the first time each player enters that room and will not play after that.
CutScenes entries can be very long lines of text. If the line of the CutScene entry is longer than the computer screen (like the CutScene we are about to make) it can look either like this...
...or like this if your text editor is set to 'Wrap' long lines back around to the other side of the screen like this...
Our entry will eventually look like one of the images above, but it is difficult to look through a big lump of text like this when trying to figure out how to write what you want the Challenge Maze Software to do for a CutScene.
The way I like to do it is shown in the following image (Make sure to put all parts of the entry on one line when done as mentioned above):
This way I can see each action individual action I am telling the Challenge Maze Software to do. Notice the '|' at the beginning of each line after the first line. That '|' again tells the Challenge Maze Software where to split up the entry. When I am done writing I Move my cursor up to the beginning of each line right before the '|'. Then I press 'Backspace' and the two lines get joined into one. I do this for each line until it is all one line like in the two hard to read lumped up text images above. You can now go ahead and do the same thing in the '0003.txt' file to write the CutScene. Do not forget the 'once' in the CutScene Frequency Entry.
If you now start another 'Double Plus Maze' game, you will be able to walk into Room 3 and see the CutScene.
If you walk out and back in you will see that the CutScene does not show up any more.
A 'perpetual' CutScene is one that will play again and again each time a player enters the room.
To make an entry for this CutScene you can start with the image below for the '0002.txt' file and then remember to compact the entry to one line before trying it out like we did with the one time CutScene.
If you now start another 'Double Plus Maze' game, you will be able to walk into Room 2 and see a CutScene.
If you walk out of Room 2 and back in you will see that the CutScene for that room still shows up. It shows up each time you enter the room.
To get a more complete understanding of how CutScenes work, you can visit the CutScenes Page now or after you finish this tutorial.
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