Simple cinematic

Step 1

Create a new cinematic using the command: /cin studio cinematic new my_cinematic_1

Step 2

Click on an empty slot of the first row (row 0) to add a new camera.

Step 3

Move to where you want the camera to be and press this message in chat.

Notice how the camera appears in the timeline GUI.

Step 4

Right-click on the right arrow to move the timeline +20 ticks forward (1 second), press it 2 times to move 2 seconds forward.

Step 5

Click on the tick 48 in order to add a new camera node. This will be the end position of the camera. The camera will automatically move and roteate to this location, as a movie camera would do.

Then fly to the destination and press the message in chat again like in step 3.

Step 6

Click on the "Set cinematic duration" button and use the command /cin input 40 to set the cinematic duration to 48 ticks (2 seconds approximately), which is the index of the last camera node. /cin input 48

Step 7

Press play and watch the animation!

Step 8

Walk to the location of where you want the actor to spawn, then use this command to create a new actor recording: /cin studio actor single my_cinematic_1_npc_walking_1

Walk around, break blocks, open doors, fight, use bow and do some stuff to make your animation interesting.

Step 9

To stop the actor recording press E (open inventory) and right-click anywhere outside the inventory, check the screenshot.

Step 10

Open the file manually using VSCode: plugins/CinematicStudio/my_cinematic_1.yml Then add a new ACTOR_RECORDING node to play the new actor recording.

  '1':
    '0':
      type: ACTOR_RECORDING
      recordingName: my_cinematic_1_npc_walking_1

As you can see i added a new row (row 1) and add a new action to that row.

In the future this might be added to the GUI for easier editing instead of having to edit the file manually.

Make sure to close the timeline GUI before opening, editing and saving the file or you will get errors.

Step 11

Follow again step 6 and change the duration of the cinematic in order to end at the end of the actor recording this time, otherwise the animation will end a abruptly.

Now you can open the cinematic and play it again to see the actor walk around: /cin studio cinematic open my_cinematic_1

As you can see you now have another node which represents the actor recording start and duration.

Finish

my_cinematic_1.yml

metadata:
  version: 1.0
  serverVersion: 'git-Purpur-2132 (MC: 1.20.4)'
  bukkitVersion: 1.20.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT
  creationDate: '2024-04-18 18:15:12'
  saveDate: '2024-04-18 18:24:49'
  author:
    name: LoneDev
    uuid: 68bbf558-ed0e-37ab-bb3e-9c8672097642
properties:
  durationTicks: 120.0
  usePumpkinHelmet: false
  useWanderingTraderEggHelmet: false
  endActions:
    playerCommands: [
      ]
    consoleCommands: [
      ]
timelineRows:
  '0':
    '0':
      type: CAMERA
      pos:
        x: -0.4827506196120833
        y: 68.76282616319523
        z: 76.33013926787177
      rot:
        x: 42.000003814697266
        y: 140.70565795898438
      mode: C
      interpolation: SMOOTH
      interpolationFrequency: 15.0
      instantTeleport: false
    '48':
      type: CAMERA
      pos:
        x: -10.21103031347566
        y: 66.51831993713284
        z: 57.88561742645358
      rot:
        x: 18.299938201904297
        y: 114.1560287475586
      mode: C
      interpolation: SMOOTH
      interpolationFrequency: 15.0
      instantTeleport: false
  '1':
    '0':
      type: ACTOR_RECORDING
      recordingName: my_cinematic_1_npc_walking_1