Is it possible to make a cutscene?

[WelshZeCorgi]

I was wondering if it was possible to make a cutscene before the actual campaign starts.

[Apache600]

I've experimented with this a little. The answer = yes*

 

* - you can not have the "player" or "client" aircraft spawned yet.

- once the "player" aircraft spawns, the camera is forced into cockpit.

- The mission starts in the F10 map.

- The player will have to press F2 or F7, or some view to get the camera out of the F10 map.

- The player is free to move the camera around however they want, possibly missing what you would want them to see.

- Custom sound files do still work though.

 

So have been my findings

 

- Apache600

[WelshZeCorgi]

Think someday that will be a feature, in like 2.5? the ability to make custom cutscenes?

[Apache600]

Personally .... No, I don't think they'll make it a feature. There's a lot talented folks out there that will make movies and trailers, but by stitching different clips together in a movie editor.

 

What would be nice, is if they were able to make "clickable" links in the mission briefing section, so we could then take a player to an external link for a different briefing set-up, or a YouTube video.

[Sabre-TLA]

This post has some instructions on how to do it.