how to activate a cell command?

[influenza]

Hi,

I have a title with the following structure:

PGC1: normal movie
pgc2: movie with visual comments
pgc3: dummy

When you activate the visual comments option every now and then you get to see a bonus feature explaing about the process of making the movie. This section will be activated automatically.

The structure of pgc1 and pgc2 is basically the same, but for every time there's a visual comment there's a dummy (still picture) vobid in pgc2.

So pgc1 would be like vob id 1,2,3,4,5 where pgc 2 is like vobid 1,2,30,3,31,4 etc 30 and 31 are stills.

What happens is that everytime a visual comment is activated a pgc in the vmg will be called and a jump will be made to the title corresponding with the feature. It's really like button over video but without buttons.

In the commands of the pgc I see the following (example of 1 extra)

pre command: if gpreg(7) == (cmp-val)<61> then (lnkpgn), link program 4, [button=0] (after playing the extra, gpreg 7 is set to 61, when returning to the main movie chapter 4 will be played).

cell command: calls (VMGM) call vmgpgc:30 [resume:cell 1] ; -> this is my jump to the dummy pgc in the vmg that takes care of playing the visual comment.

My question is how to activate this? I*'m using sceanrist by the way.

[Lord of the Discs]

usually, a cell command is executed after the cell is played

if you post all commands for all 3 PGCs here, maybe that
will bring more light in the darkness


LotD

[influenza]

How do you add a screenshot here?

[influenza]

i got it almost solved. I created a dummy video manager in my project and linked the corresponding cells to them. This solves it. Why do I say alomost then: when the still is played that links to the extra, it's really still. The screen becomes black and pauses. I have o manually press play to continue. Then my extra plays and returns to the movie as intended.

How do I solve that it plays autmatically? The cell still time is zero.

[influenza]

This was pretty obvious ofcourse. I used a still show. Using a slide show of one sec fixed it. Everything works now. Pretty interesting title I must say.

[Lord of the Discs]

glad you made it, looked pretty interesting to me too

LotD

[influenza]

well since we agreed (?) not to name titles here I PM me if you want to know