Scene Scripts: client side NPCs, animations, cut scenes, ...

[schlumpf]

They are MoP only.

I'm currently unable to initiate them myself; the server tells the client to play a scene.
The server spawns a CGSceneObject. The scene can only play while that object exists.

Scene scripts are in lua, can't interface with the UI though and have a special API, allowing to modify the world in different ways.

Modifying the Varian Gets Punched scene:
Instead of camera movement, spawn a field of :


Instead of , use a specific model:


Instead of just spawning a model, clone the player, phase out the actual player, then randomly run around.
[youtube:28k4mg7v]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-UbMUQ83BU[/youtube:28k4mg7v]

An excerpt of functions (without arguments) and variables available in the API:

• some early beta: http://pastie.org/private/m9u8qgeettitp2i2akfg
• 5.2: http://pastie.org/private/1db30iahtfsec9cs3hb7bq

[stoneharry]

Very nice, thanks for documenting.

Why is it only MoP? I thought scene scripts were implemented in Cataclysm. Most of Uldum is based around them.

[schlumpf]

That's not SceneScripts, but server side scripts, IIRC. At least, there is nothing with Uldum showing up in the database. Remind me to put up a list of all scripts up later.

[stoneharry]

Any more progress on this?

[schlumpf]

Nope. The next steps are intense in reverse engineering:

• Instead of reading from the DBC directly, the client caches the script data in a dynamically allocated array. That could be good for runtime-insertion, requires reverse engineering the whole container code though.
• There is still no way to trigger a scene script easily. I either need to create a CGSceneObject in memory myself and get it into knowledge of the client, despawn it when the script is done, or find a way to play a scene script without having such an object (should not be possible, as the position of that object are used inside scripts)
• Start script without inserting into container?
• How to bridge between interface LUA and scripts?

[chaze117]

Hi, can you make some tutorial for using this?
And this works only in MOP or works in Cata as well?

[Rangorn]

They are MoP only.

[schlumpf]

And above.

There are no proper tools and everything, so tutorials would require a shitload of work.

[chaze117]

Okay, then I need to figure out by myself.
One more question where I can find this .luas ?

[schlumpf]

DBFilesClient/SceneScript*.db2

[chaze117]

I can't find them  

[schlumpf]

They are inside the databases. There are no separate lua files.

[chaze117]

Finally I found it
One more thing, I can convert it to SQL but can't convert back because DB2Edit 1.4 don't work for me.

[schlumpf]

I don't even know that application, so I can't help you.

[chaze117]

What do you use?