Graphics

Hello,

I'm making a scrolling ticker with a scene group(in the Scene Manager) using the Roll/Crawl effect. The parent scene has the background and the child scene has the text that scrolls across.

At the end of the scrolling text, I thought I'd put an Event Object to trigger a Scene Director from the master scene that will have an out animation and take the scene offline.

The Event Object script is working in the child scene because I can get it to change text, but I'm not seeing any results when trying to run the Scene Director from the master scene.

Here's the script I have:

dim masterScene as xpScene
Engine.GetSceneByName("Snipe", masterScene)

dim allOut as xpSceneDirector
masterScene.GetSceneDirectorByName("ALL_OUT", allOut)
allOut.PlayRange(0, allOut.Length)

Anyone have any solutions or workarounds? Thanks!

Instead of using GetSceneByName (which is returning a copy of the scene you are requesting, and not the one actually controlling the scroll), try using Scene.GetParent to retrieve the parent scene.

Or, you can just use a scene directior trigger event to start the other scene's director, and not use a script at all.

Brian, thank you so much. GetParent works like a charm.