What would a single player game be without a decent cutscene or two?
A bit rubbish if you ask me. Up till now it's been thought that Alien Swarm didn't come with any entities that allowed you to project an image to the full screen. I.e. present a camera driven scene to the players full screen.
The only thing that was provided was a small pop out camera screen at the side..
Well after a lot of tinkering I discovered that the image that was shown on that pop out video is actually a texture. That texture can be applied to any surface in a map by turning the brush you want it to appear on into a func_monitor, covering all sides in nodraw texture then applying the texture vgui/swarm/Computer/ComputerCamera.vtf to the side of the brush where you want the image to appear.
Nice... What's even nicer is if you use that image as an env_screenoverlay you can fill the players whole screen with the camera feed...
Here's a BSP map file for those who want to see the results... just drop it into your alien swarm maps folder.
Here's a .vmf map file for those that want to see how it's done.
Ahh I can now go to bed with a sense of achievement!
Update!
I have managed to create a new .VMT file that removes the security camera style overlay. It can be downloaded Here!
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