Camera Animations for cutscenes and gameplay!

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#45

that game looks amazing. Where can I play it?

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#46

It’s a game i’m still working hard on, so it’s not released yet

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#47

You are probably using animation events to code in the effects manually right? Or whats ur method to time the effects on frame?

#48

How would I break the function? Cause I have to delete my character after I run it and rarely the character gets deleted before the cutscene ended and it freezes the screen

It returns HumanoidRootPart is not a part of BossChar???

My script

IntroCutsceneEvt.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(CFrameFolder, BossChar, DialogueFolder)
	game.StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled("Health", false)
	wait()
	StarterGUIService:SetCore("ResetButtonCallback", false)
	local CinematicsFolder = CFrameFolder

	local CurrentCameraCFrame = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame
	local FrameTime = 0
	local Connection

	Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = false
	camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable


	Connection = RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function(DT)
		FrameTime += (DT * 60) 
		-- This will convert the seconds passed (DT) to the frame of the camera we need.
		-- Then it adds it to the total amount of time passed since the animation started

		local NeededFrame = CinematicsFolder.Frames:FindFirstChild(tonumber(math.ceil(FrameTime)))

		if NeededFrame and BossChar then
			if BossChar:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
				camera.CFrame = BossChar.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * NeededFrame.Value
			end
		else
			Connection:Disconnect()
			Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = true
			camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
			camera.CFrame = CurrentCameraCFrame	
		end
	end)
	
	wait(5.5)
	game.StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled("Health", true)
	StarterGUIService:SetCore("ResetButtonCallback", true)
end)
#49

check if bosschar.parent instead of bosschar

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#50

You could sent the Client the Character through the event. Then make it so that the function can intake Arguments for what character were focusing on

#51

anybody know if I could use the cinematic function he provided for a looped camera cutscene (Ex: a loading screen or custom shop)

edit: for anybody wondering, it just took a bit of critical thinking.

this is how it works: if you don’t want to loop the cutscene, put false for the boolean parameter and it acts as normal. if so, the function will return another function that will end the loop.

here’s a modified version of his code that SHOULD still work for any instance, feel free to let me know of any errors or problems with my code

print("Hello world!")


local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local Character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Camera = workspace.Camera

local function Cinematic(shouldLoop)
	local CinematicsFolder = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("camera1")
	local FramesFolder = CinematicsFolder:WaitForChild("Frames") 

	local CurrentCameraCFrame = workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame
	local FrameTime = 0
	local Connection
	local IsLooping = shouldLoop or false 
	local BreakLoop = false

	Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = false
	Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

	local function StopCinematic()
		if Connection then
			Connection:Disconnect()
			Connection = nil -- to prevent potential double disconnects
		end
		Character.Humanoid.AutoRotate = true
		Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
		Camera.CFrame = CurrentCameraCFrame
	end

	Connection = RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function(DT)
		if BreakLoop then
			StopCinematic()
			return
		end

		FrameTime += (DT * 60)

		local NeededFrame = FramesFolder:FindFirstChild(tostring(math.ceil(FrameTime))) -- Changed tonumber to tostring

		if NeededFrame then
			Camera.CFrame = NeededFrame.Value
		else
			if IsLooping then
				FrameTime = 0
			else
				StopCinematic()
			end
		end
	end)

	local function Break()
		BreakLoop = true
	end

	-- return the baby function
	return Break
end


--example usage
game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("cutscene").Event:Connect(function()
	local breakloop = Cinematic(true)
	
	wait(10)
	breakloop()
end)