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No cutscenes in game

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May 13, 2006 4:52:28 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
I'm playing the campaign. I'm not seeing any cutscenes. I know they exist because the first time I beat Darkness Rising it started to play and then crashed to desktop. Now it doesn't start them at all.

I don't know which debug.err to send, but does anyone have an idea what's causing this?

(I know I replied to a thread about this, but it wasn't in Bug Reports, so I'm starting one here)

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Reply #1 May 13, 2006 4:52:42 PM
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Reply #2 May 13, 2006 6:57:13 PM
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There r not any cut scenes. I wish there was, but there r none. Just a narrative. Stardock let us down here.
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Reply #3 May 13, 2006 7:32:04 PM
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They exist. I've seen the first two second of one. It started to zoom in on the temple the Drengin were using to unleash the Dread Lords, and then froze. Since then I've been unable to get that or any other cutscene.

(plus there's an old thread where the devs say they do exist)
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Reply #4 May 13, 2006 8:11:31 PM
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There are, but you have to have downloaded the multimedia downloads from SDC.
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Reply #5 May 13, 2006 8:23:40 PM
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did that. But maybe I'll do it again, just to make sure everything's there.
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Reply #6 May 14, 2006 12:31:57 PM
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LOL -- did you just bump your own post in the very same minute you posted the original?

Bravo, sir. Bravo! I only wish that I had such iron balls.

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Reply #7 May 14, 2006 1:34:48 PM
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I do have cutscenes on my disc.
I can see them with BinkPlayer nicely.
But only first one (campaign intro) appears in the game.
The release of DL that should happen after 3rd mission never appears on screen.
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Reply #8 May 14, 2006 1:57:22 PM
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@Jmccorn

There's a forum bug that makes it important to bump posts regardless of other people responding

@p22
Yeah, i've got them installed off the disk too.
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Reply #9 May 15, 2006 3:06:04 PM
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It's monday, so I'm sending this to the top for it to be noticed by stardock
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Reply #10 May 15, 2006 5:12:51 PM
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I reported the cut scenes not appearing in the campaign, to Stardock on April 25 and here is my communication with Cari Begle, Lead Developer, Galactic Civilizations series.

Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 10:30:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [#YBC-920284]: Cut Scene are not Displayed
To: support@stardock.com

The cut scenes are showing up in my first Metaverse game (Painfull, Gigantic, 9 AI opponents).

The bubble around Earth cut scene did not show up for me when I completed the last mission of the campaign, Escape. I think it is intended to show up after the Salvation mission since that one ends with the Pre-Cursor device creating the protective shield around the Earth.

Thanks for replying back.

Paul D.

--- Cari Begle wrote:

> Yeah, most of the in game cutscenes only show up in sandbox mode. I
> think that the cutscene with the bubble shows up at the end of the campaign.
>
> Cari Begle
> Lead Developer, Galactic Civilizations series
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:50 PM
> To: cbegle@stardock.com
> Subject: Re: [#YBC-920284]: Cut Scene are not Displayed
>
> Really? One of the cut scenes shows a shield around Earth which I
> thought would appear after successfully completing the Salvation
> mission. There are cut scenes for events like establishing a trade
> route; do they only appear when playing the sandbox game? Having
> just completed the campaign just last week, tonight I hope to start
> my first post-release sandbox game (I was one of the beta testers).
>
> Thanks for responding Cari and congratulations to the whole
> development team!
>
> Paul D.
>
> --- Cari Begle wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > The only other one that you would have seen would have been after
> > Darkness Rising, which apparently you only see after you lose one
> > of the other missions. I'll have to see if there's another place
> > that it would be appropriate to insert it.
> >
> > There isn't any documentation for the Prefs.ini file.
> > ForceTextureUpdate, HyperthreadEnhancement, and
> > ThreadedInitialLoading don't actually do anything at the moment.
> >
> > Cari Begle
> > Lead Developer, Galactic Civilizations series
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Reply #11 May 15, 2006 8:17:10 PM
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Ahh. Well that's helpful.
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