Snippet Unskippable Transmission

[PurgeandFire]

Look down to Troll-Brain's post.


This is the code:

function EnableTransmissionSkip takes boolean flag returns nothing
    if flag then
        call EnableTrigger(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped)
    else
        call DisableTrigger(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped)
    endif
endfunction

Unskippable Transmissions

Quite a few people have asked, "how do I make it so that people can't skip transmissions by pressing ESC?"

EDIT: I've removed the rest of the post to avoid confusion. Use the function above.

 

[Troll-Brain]

It would be much easier to simply do this, espcially because it seems you want make the life of gui users less annoying :

disable the skip possibility :

call DisableTrigger(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped)

enable the skip possibility :

call EnableTrigger(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped)

 

[Igor_Z]

I always wanted to do that in my map... Thank you for explaining, i don't have much time now. But later i will ask u if i have problems importing this to my map cuz i don't know JASS

 

[Romek]

Could we get a 'more detailed explanation' here, instead of having to go to HW?

 

[UndeadDragon]

It seems very useful. I might implement it into my map. :thup:

 

[Joker(Div)]

Or you could simply do:

call EnableUserControl( false )

Or this:

function SetScene takes integer id, playercolor pc, string who, string what, real dur returns nothing
        if IsPlayerInForce( GetLocalPlayer(), bj_FORCE_ALL_PLAYERS ) then
            call SetCinematicScene( id, pc, who, what, dur + bj_TRANSMISSION_PORT_HANGTIME, dur )
        endif
    endfunction

'

It's just this in the BJ that allows the esc

call TryInitCinematicBehaviorBJ()

 

[Troll-Brain]

Or you could simply do:

call EnableUserControl( false )

Or this:

function SetScene takes integer id, playercolor pc, string who, string what, real dur returns nothing
        if IsPlayerInForce( GetLocalPlayer(), bj_FORCE_ALL_PLAYERS ) then
            call SetCinematicScene( id, pc, who, what, dur + bj_TRANSMISSION_PORT_HANGTIME, dur )
        endif
    endfunction

'

It's just this in the BJ that allows the esc

call TryInitCinematicBehaviorBJ()

The user control doesn't work, anyway disable/enable the trigger bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped is the best solution for gui users, imho.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Yeah, troll-brain's method is probably the best way for GUI users, or at least the easiest. I just never thought of it because I never think of the obvious. And this was just a real old method I found out a long time ago, so I just pretty much c'n'ped without really going over my code. But I just would like to run a few tests. Sadly, I can't until the day after tomorrow.

call EnableUserControl( false )

You can still use ESC when disabling user control. Blizz probably allowed it just to skip cinematics/transmissions even though you can't control units or camera, etc.

call TryInitCinematicBehaviorBJ()

Yep, basically what I did. I just removed that line. The rest is just inlining so that I won't be bashed for having so many damn BJs.

For now on, everyone should just use Troll-Brain's method.

You can probably send this to the graveyard, I don't think anyone really needs this anymore. =D Unless I somehow find if my method has any specific advantages, but for now I don't mind this sitting in the graveyard.

 

[Troll-Brain]

But i didn't know there is a such trigger in the blizzard init, so you have not lost your time.
I knew there is a such automated thing with items/units in shop directly in the map script, but not this one, i thought it was hardcoded.