Text/"Cutscenes" during WADs.

[Canofbacon]

If you have ever played Terry's UAC Military Nightmare, you know on the first level, you go to open the door, and then you get that little "cutscene" with the John Romero head and the Christmas song or something like that. (It has been awhile since I played it.) How do you do something like that?

[jdagenet]

Cutscenes during gameplay can be created using Aiming Camera, Moving Camera, or Security Camera in ZDoom ACS. Moving cameras can be quite tricky to understand and use properly without any errors so it wouldn't hurt to take a look at these examples (1, 2, 3).

If you want some basic text to be put on the screen, Print and Print Bold is probably what you're wanting. However, if you want more flexibility with the affects you can use on text, you should probably use HUD Message and HUD Message Bold. These two functions will be your best friends when it comes to creating good cutscenes.

[Canofbacon]

jdagenet said:

Cutscenes during gameplay can be created using Aiming Camera, Moving Camera, or Security Camera in ZDoom ACS. Moving cameras can be quite tricky to understand and use properly without any errors so it wouldn't hurt to take a look at these examples (1, 2, 3).

If you want some basic text to be put on the screen, Print and Print Bold is probably what you're wanting. However, if you want more flexibility with the affects you can use on text, you should probably use HUD Message and HUD Message Bold. These two functions will be your best friends when it comes to creating good cutscenes.

Thank you.