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jamieo
28th September 2002, 16:13
Hi, great forum here - long time reader of doom9 (submitted a matrix guide years ago). I've searched all over this forum and cannot find an answer to this.

What I want to do is have an animated menu which has some buttons on it that when selected will play a short cut scene (which is another menu) and then go to the film or submenu etc.

Main Menu - > Press "Play Movie" -> Short 'Cut Scene' is played followed by film.

No matter what I try it will not work. I have tried putting an 'Auto Action' button on the cut scene menu that links to the film but this only works in the DVDMaestro preview - not in Software or Standalone Player. I've also tried a command sequence but it didn't take any notice o the second instruction:

Jump Menu Button 1
Jump Movie1 Chapter 1

I don't want to manually add the sequence to the beginning of each menu/movie or use some playlist as a workaround... this should be simple shouldn't it????

Jamie

jamieo
28th September 2002, 18:42
Well, in the end I just set a register which gets checked after the timeout of the 'cut scene'.

Main Menu -> Select "Play Movie" -> Command Sequence as follows:

1 SetGPRMMD GP0 to Register
2 MOV GP0 , 0
3 Jump To menuPush[#1] 'no button on menu but oh well...

menuPush is played with 0 sec timeout -> Command Sequence as follows:

1 Jump To Movie1[#1] if (GP0 = 0)
2 Jump To Scene01[#1] if (GP0 = 1)
3 Jump etc.. etc..

Is this the easiest way? Why does the following not work?
Main Menu -> Select "Play Movie" -> Command Sequence as follows:

1 Jump To menuPush[#1]
2 Jump To Movie1[#1]

Jamie