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Cinematic mode visibility?

07-10-2006, 09:03 PM#1
Sardius
Ok, how do I just have normal visibilty in cinematic mode or compinsate? I don't want the fog of war to dissappear and I don't want limitless vision all around.

For example at the intro to a dungeon, cinematic mode is enabled as the heroes travel along a narrow bridge with a chasm on each side... To create the illusion of a bottomless chasm on either side of the narrow bridge I used boundry blocks to create just black areas, which looks fine normally... Yet when cinematic mode is enabled, all this black boundry areas become visible and my bottomless chasm vanishes...

I've tried "Enable Fog of War" and "Enable Black Mask" after cinematic mode starts, both of which did shit all.
07-10-2006, 09:51 PM#2
Naakaloh
You could try calling a modified version of this function instead, since this is essentially the function being called when you turn on cinematic mode.

http://jass.sourceforge.net/doc/api/...rce.shtml#6486
07-11-2006, 02:29 AM#3
Sardius
uhhh. huh?
07-11-2006, 03:50 AM#4
Pheonix-IV
use letterbox mode instead of cinematic mode. Cinematic mode does a number of things, including disabling FoW, lowering music volume, increasing speech volume and some other stuff. Letterbox mode just puts up the letterbox.
07-11-2006, 03:38 PM#5
Sardius
thanks man.

But is there any reason that all my units facial portraits vanish after I come out of letter box mode? When I click on any units there is just a blank screen where their face would be after turning off letter box mode.
07-11-2006, 05:04 PM#6
Alevice
To exit properly such mode, don't call Disable Letterbox, call Turn off cinematic mode instead. ;P