How to make a cinematic impossible to skip

[Jarko89]

hi all, ive got a little problem in my map. when the game stars, a short cinematic is shown. it consists in a dialog between 2 units (4 sentences each). reading it is really important, but quite every time i play the map online there is an idiot between players who keeps on pressing ESC and skips the whole speech, making the cinematic end in a few seconds.

so i ask you... how can i make this short dialog impossible to skip, so when a players presses ESC it just does nothing?

thank you all! +rep waiting 4 u :thup:

 

[Nina]

If I'm not mistaken the action cinematic - disable user control for player x is what your looking for.

 

[Accname]

if nina's suggestion doesnt work (i dunno if it will, never tried it this way ^^) you can also make a trigger with the event "player skips cinematic" and enable the cinematic mode and show the dialog again.

 

[AceHart]

My suggestion would be to shorten those 4 sentences to two lines,
show them in the loading screen,
and displayed as text for 20 seconds when the game starts,
and forget the entire cinematic stuff.

Cinematics in multi-player are already extremely annoying by nature.
But trying to force them on the players... that reaches new levels of annoyance...


Personal opinion of course.

 

[Linear88]

Agree with you, AceHart.

Cinematics are always skipped by players because they don't care to read the stuff below.

@Jarko89: You should add something like: Do not press ESC or you will be kicked! or something like that to warn players.

 

[Sooda]

'MAX_PLAYERS' and 'skipCount' are both integer variables. This should skip cinematic only when all players press ESC key:

Init End Cinematic
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Custom script:       call DisableTrigger( bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped )
        Player Group - Pick every player in (All players) and do (Actions)
            Loop - Actions
                Set MAX_PLAYERS = (MAX_PLAYERS + 1)
                Trigger - Add to End Cinematic <gen> the event (Player - (Picked player) skips a cinematic sequence)
                Trigger - Add to Update Max Players <gen> the event (Player - (Picked player) leaves the game)

Update Max Players
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set MAX_PLAYERS = (MAX_PLAYERS - 1)

End Cinematic
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set skipCount = (skipCount + 1)
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                skipCount Equal to MAX_PLAYERS
            Then - Actions
                Set skipCount = 0
                Custom script:       call EnableTrigger( bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped )
                Custom script:       call TriggerExecute( bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped )
                Custom script:       call DisableTrigger( bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped )
            Else - Actions

You can play with integer comparison how many players need to skip cinematic, maybe majority skipping cinematic is enough, currently still all need to skip cinematic.

 

[mathiashl]

I agree:thdown:
i think its impossible to disable skip cinematic
say in the loading screen "skip the start cinematic and you,ll be banned"
event - player x skips a cinematic
condition - (triggering player is an idiot)
action - Game - (defeat (triggering player))

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Why are you bumping such an old thread :nuts: ?

And if the original poster even still needs this (7 months later ) (s)he can look here.