Triggering Cut-Scenes for a Half-Life 2 MOD Thread

Ever since Half-Life I have been playing around with Map editing, coding, textures ect, ect.
But now that Half-life 2 is going to have so many possiblites, at such a
"HIGH Quality" am very excited to plunge head long into this MOD I have an idea for.

I need to now, if any one has prior experience
playing Cut-scenes (Designed, Modeled, Animated and Rendered)
while reaching certain points on the map. Say with a trigger or something.

Does anyone have experience with DOING this before in Half-Life?

1) What do I need to do?
2) Is there several methods in doing this and what is the best you have found?

thanks in advance!!!

- Edited By sethmanplayer On Wed 3rd, Sep 2003 @ 5:20:10pm
- Edited By sethmanplayer On Wed 3rd, Sep 2003 @ 7:42:07pm

if its like the origenal half-life in mapping there will be a func_camera which will proberly be targeted to a func_null. other wise when half-life 2 is realesed i expect valve will proberly put lots of help on the net. if all else fails do what you did last time.

thanks deathmedic3rd! I bet your right, I'll be able to find my answer once it everyone starts going nuts with it!

in game cut scenes are so much cooler than rendered, unless its a game like warcraft 3, or summin

I think that Half Life 2 will be following the same way and not having cut-scenes, but you will watch the action as it happens (Take the start of Half Life for instance).

hmm, odd, no clues huh?

Yeah, all the scripted sequences in HL2 are, like HL1, still in player control and first-person view. You can probably record demos and edit and play them as cutscenes, or make camera-view cutscenes quite simply though, I'm sure.

Download Azure Sheep and F**k around with its coding. Its god a little semi-cutscene at the beginning. Unreally simple but its possible. Same With BLue Shift In the Camera Room.

Demos seem easier

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get back to teh topic guys...

yes demos would probably be the best way to go, i was just giving him options...