Creating an intro.

Hi guys, I thought that I would throw this tutorial together to show you how to create a game intro. I had quite some trouble getting this to work and it was mainly a trial and error thing for me. I just thought that I would share this with you guys and hopefully it will be useful for someone.

You will need to know about basic eventing and cut scenes for this, everything else shall be explained.

Ok, so say you want an intro that is completely black. The way I went about doing this was to create my first map and then to create an event anywhere on the map (somewhere out of the way).
In this event click insert and go to page 2. Towards the bottom on the left hand side you will see something that says ‘Tint Screen...’ (Not tint picture) select this and then just select what colour you want the background to be (in this case it is black). Deselect the box that says wait for completion, and set it to how many frames it will take to fully appear. I selected 1. When you are happy, press ok.

In the following lines you can add your text, in the standard way by pressing insert and ‘show text...’ When you want your map to reappear you go to insert ‘Tint screen...’ and select the default colours (which should already be there), deselect wait for completion and then click ok. After this you can follow the standard methods for cut scenes or you can set the event to erase itself, it’s up to you.

Ok before clicking ok, head to the left hand side and set the trigger to parallel process. If it has auto run selected instead, your map will appear for a second before your screen turns black. This was the problem I was having for a while, but eventually solved it.

Thanks for reading and I hope it helped. I tried to explain as best I could, but unfortunately I am not particularly gifted at these sorts of things. If anything was unclear, please point it out and I will attempt to help you out. I will make an attempt at putting a demo together at some point. Thanks again, Mess