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Skipping Cinematics Troubles...

02-21-2003, 03:50 AM#1
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How can you skip a cinematic and cancel the cinematic itself? I know how to skip a cinematic using the Skip Cinematic event, but stopping the trigger that is the cinematic cannot be done. I've tried using the trigger queue, but it hasn't worked. Any ideas, anyone?
02-21-2003, 05:51 AM#2
Trav
Basically you do this:

Event - Cinematic is Skipped
Set (Boolean) variable Skip = True
Turn off this trigger
*Proceed to run all relevant stuff that may have been in your cinematic trigger here*

Now in your cinematic trigger, you should have it set up like so:

Cinematic stuff
Wait X seconds
If Skip is equal to True then Skip Remaining Actions else Do Nothing


Throw a lot of that If/Then into your cinematic trigger, and make certain that you are careful here. Have the cinema skip trigger initially off, and have it turned on right after cinematic mode is turned on in your cin. trigger. Leaving out relevant things from your cin. trigger in your skip trigger can cause problems such as perma-paused units, freezing in cin. mode, etc. So make sure you double check your placement.