cutscene skipping script....

**Inferno** · August 21st, 2007 12:39 AM

how do a cutscene so u can skip it with ESC. i dont need to watch the 3 minute intro cutscene to my map b4 every beta test...

**CtrlAltDestroy** · August 21st, 2007 12:49 AM

Place these scripts at the top of your HSC:

Code:

(script static "boolean" cinematic_skip_start
	(cinematic_skip_start_internal)
	(game_save_totally_unsafe)
	(sleep_until
		(not (game_saving))
	1)
	(not (game_reverted))
)

(script static "void" cinematic_skip_stop
	(cinematic_skip_stop_internal)
)

Then, execute your cutscene script like this:

Code:

(script static "void" cutscenescript
	;; cutscene stuff goes here
)

(script startup cutscene_initialize
	(if
		(cinematic_skip_start)
			(cutscenescript)
	)
	(cinematic_skip_stop)
)

**Inferno** · August 21st, 2007 01:03 AM

thx
that will be very helpfull.

**Rob Oplawar** · August 22nd, 2007 10:49 PM

Thank you, that's very helpful indeed. I played with cinematic skipping a bit a few months ago, but never got it to work and eventually gave up to work on more immediate goals. But now I have to figure out if this works in Halo 2 Vista (god I hope the scripting isn't too different, or I'ma get pwned when it comes to scripting this Scythopolis.)