Need help with .hx Video Stuff

[KadePleaseHelpMe]

I was making a cutscene intro for the game so that after the BetaWarning Screen, it transitions to an MP4 (which I made a separate .hx file for). Unfortunately, I'm stupid and only learned LUA so I had to go off of existing .hx files and improvise by making educated guesses of what each one line of code did. Using that, I made, with some help from Nex, this beauty of a script (/s):

package funkin.menus;

import funkin.game.cutscenes.ScriptedCutscene;

class PeterCutsceneIntro extends ScriptedCutscene {
    
    public function new() {
        super(Paths.video("betergriffin"), function() {
            FlxG.switchState(new TitleState());
        });
    };

}

Surely nothing will go wrong...

If anybody is intelligent, please help me out here.

[r6915ee]

According to the script you provided, it seems you're trying to access a video file. In that case, it would be better to extend the VideoCutscene class instead. This is so there is no need to use HScript, since the first argument in the ScriptedCutscene class's new() function uses the Script class.

Following this, change the super() function in the state accordingly. You should get something like:

super(Paths.video("betergriffin", "mp4"), FlxG.switchState(new TitleState()))

Changing this is necessary, because the super() function essentially IS the new() function for any class that is being extended by another class. That's why it's common for it to be included in such cases.

I added comments to show how everything works. Here is the finalized result:

package funkin.menus;

// Import the VideoCutscene class for use.
import funkin.game.cutscenes.VideoCutscene;

// Begin the class, extending VideoCutscene.
class PeterCutsceneIntro extends VideoCutscene {
    public function new() {
	// Call super() just as you would in a class with an extended class.
	// Make sure that the video file in the first argument is named correctly, otherwise it likely will not work.
	// For the second argument, switch states as you normally would.
        super(Paths.video("betergriffin", "mp4"), FlxG.switchState(new TitleState()))
    };
}

// EOF

If there seem to be any more problems, please tell me. I haven't tested this, so there may be some small errors.

[KadePleaseHelpMe]

There were a couple errors

source/funkin/menus/PeterCutsceneIntro.hx:12: characters 51-85 : Void should be () -> Void
source/funkin/menus/PeterCutsceneIntro.hx:12: characters 51-85 : ... For function argument 'callback'
source/funkin/menus/PeterCutsceneIntro.hx:8: lines 8-13 : Missing super constructor call

I managed to fix these by separating the FlxG switchstate into a separate function as shown here

unfortunately, it still returns a Null Object Error upon loading up PeterCutsceneIntro.hx.
I looked in VideoCutscene.hx and found this so I'm wondering if maybe I could find a way to use that startVideo function
I'll do it after posting this to see if it works but yeah until then here's what I found.

[KadePleaseHelpMe]

Also yeah the file name is "betergriffin.mp4" so that can't be the issue (I checked)

[KadePleaseHelpMe]

While we fix this, I'll make another build called -debugplusgame so that I can actually... yknow... play the game.

[r6915ee]

Ah, it might be on my end, then. I don't usually interact with substates, but since BetaWarningState is supposed to open up a state and not a substate, it might not work by default. I'd recommend importing flixel.FlxSubState in that case into BetaWarningState, and then replace your FlxG.switchState(new PeterCutsceneIntro()) with openSubState(new PeterCutsceneIntro()) instead.

[KadePleaseHelpMe]

THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT TOTALLY WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll edit TitleState for the camera error thing but TYSM!!!!!!!!! U r best bro I will put you in credits (please put your credits icon in the replies)

[r6915ee]

No problem! Crediting isn't necessary, but if you want to then here is my icon. GitHub integration could work too.