Brilliant!!! i like it a lot!!!! i wish it was for A6 as well. i have done a similar thing with cutscenes in my project, but not this clean. good job Clyde!

Thanks Blink! After I get the A7 version to where I want it to be, I might create an A6 playback script since I think this is something GS has been in need of for quite some time... it would be like I'm contributing it retroactively!

At the same time, it'd be real nice if this could also net me A8 Pro
since the AUM contest was the initial inspiration... but I'm glad to be working on something that can be useful to everybody as well! ^_^

Thankfully I have all of July to work on much-needed editor GUI improvements.

good luck, i hope you win!

Today I did a rough design of UI changes I plan to make



It's gonna look a bit better than this since I'll be using Photoshop to make the actual buttons. This was just a quick doodle in MS Paint

nice stuff you got going on here! I might give this a try sometime soon when my Toolkit is finished for testing

Is this going to be an entry into the contest btw?

regards,

Indeed it will be! I was initially brainstorming tool ideas as a result of the contest but then realized that this was a tool I'd like to make for Gamestudio, to create a similar functionality to Valve's cinematic scenes in their engine.

Also here is a preview screenshot of the interface as I'm working on it and adding buttons and functionality and whatever-



So far I've got the buttons in there for the commands I'd already added- for saving, creating keyframes, adding sounds, scrolling along the timeline, etc.

At the same time I'm also working on improved editing functionality, such as selecting cues to move back and fourth on the timeline, or delete them, or just edit them a little.

hmmm, i worked on one of these a while back, stopped after a few days unfortunately, due to my crap planning:

if you ever want check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d3s7Fry-AQ

maybe it'll give you some ideas, of course its very primitive so i doubt it.

I liked how you've got the editing arrows like in WED and Blender... I've got an arrow model I made for that sort of thing so I'll try implementing that later.

Also the lines indicating object paths seem like a good idea as well. I should add a toggle button that does that-

UPDATE!

It's the latest build of the editor, the latest playback script to include, and even a player application to test scenes outside of a game

http://ifile.it/09oytm8/Act.zip

I've added a nice GUI with editing buttons in similar style to WED or MED-
and also you can now click and drag on cues on the timeline to adjust their position along the timeline. You can even right-click on cues to delete them.

I wanted to test this thing out and I am very disappointed that native camera support is not available. Please add camera support without having esoteric "camera objects" in the scene. I just wanted to fly with the camera in certain position and take a "snapshot" of the current view as camera keyframe. Moving via WASD and E/Q (for lifting upwards/downwards) would be a plus, please also add controls of how the camera.arc and the roll can be changed (e.g. via y/x for the roll and r/f for the arc). Tooltips would be nice or (if you think this is over the top) write at least a readme.txt that explains the interface. A demo level with some simple prerecorded sequences would be a plus, too. When I start either the player/recorder and click cancel in the first dialog, the engine freezes, though.

Best regards,
-Christian