Code Transformation: Scene Director

[Albeoris]

One of the main problems that prevents us from writing new scenes is that scene synchronization is entrusted to the Scene Director, and the logic for playing sounds, animations and dialogues is encapsulated in objects on the scene. Without a convenient tool, it is difficult to fix even an existing scene, not to mention adding new one or new participants to it, since this will require manually changing all subsequent events in all scripts of all objects associated with the current phase.

    // Scene Director
    public IEnumerable<IAwaitable> OnLoop()
    {
        switch(@evt.Byte_24)
        {
            case 12:{
                if((@evt.Byte_28[7] == true))
                {
                    @evt.Byte_24 = 13;
                    @evt.Byte_28[7] = false;
                }
                break;
            }
            case 13:{
                if((@evt.Byte_28[7] == true))
                {
                    @evt.Byte_24 = 14;
                    @evt.Byte_28[7] = false;
                }
                break;
            }

            // Cinna
            case 12:{
                CFLAG(_flags: 7)
                @act.SetPosition(positionX: 117, positionY: -555); // POS
                @act.SetAngle(angle: 128); // DIRE
                @act.SetAnimation(AnimationKind.Idle, "ANH_SUB_F0_CNA_TIRED"); // AIDLE
                NECKFLAG(_flags: 0)
                yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 3); // WAIT

                @evt.Byte_26--;
                while((@evt.Byte_26 > 0))
                {
                    @evt.Byte_28[6] = true;
                    yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 1); // WAIT

                }
                while((@evt.Byte_28[6] == true))
                {
                    yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 1); // WAIT

                }
                @evt.Byte_28[7] = true;
                break;
            }

            // Marcus
            case 13:{
                yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 11); // WAIT

                // {W41H1}Whew...{Time 10}
                yield return @mes.ShowAndWait(windowId: 5, ui: 128, text: 46); // MES

                @evt.Byte_26--;
                while((@evt.Byte_26 > 0))
                {
                    @evt.Byte_28[6] = true;
                    yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 1); // WAIT

                }
                while((@evt.Byte_28[6] == true))
                {
                    yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 1); // WAIT

                }
                @evt.Byte_28[7] = true;
                break;

It would be great to have a single synchronization point for describing cutscenes:

    // Scene Director
    public IEnumerable<IAwaitable> AfterBossBattle()
    {
        var cinnaTiered = @cinna + () =>
        {
                CFLAG(_flags: 7)
                @act.SetPosition(positionX: 117, positionY: -555); // POS
                @act.SetAngle(angle: 128); // DIRE
                @act.SetAnimation(AnimationKind.Idle, "ANH_SUB_F0_CNA_TIRED"); // AIDLE
                NECKFLAG(_flags: 0)
                yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 3); // WAIT
        };
        
        var marucsSpeak = @marcus + () =>
        {
                yield return @sys.Wait(frameDuration: 11); // WAIT

                // {W41H1}Whew...{Time 10}
                yield return @mes.ShowAndWait(windowId: 5, ui: 128, text: 46); // MES
        };
        
        foreach (var state in Play([cinnaTiered, marucsSpeak]))
            yield return state;
    }

Yes, it still looks terrible, and such scenes will be difficult to read, but it’s better than having to piece together a cutscene in multiple independent scripts. :/