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Explain yourself, please.
Normally, a cinematic doesn't end with ESC, it should be triggered. (My cinematics don't quit when you press ESC, unless triggered).
Or do you mean that the text dissapears when someone hits ESC?
And one more thing: making cinematics skippable is better than if the cinematic is unskippable.
If you play the map often, you always need to watch the same cinematic again, if it is a cinematic-map, it could be that the player accidentally pressed enter (happened to me once), then he has to close warcraft to stop the cinematic.
there's a map like where there is a cinematic and if 80 percent of the players hit the esc key then the cinematic will skip. it's called wardraft. it will probably have what you need for that.
edit: if the above poster is right it probably means you imported the cinematic stuff and didn't make it from scratch. my guess is you should compare the cinematic stuff you imported with the stuff from wardraft.
you might still need to refer to a tutorial though if you haven't already. i'm a bit of a newb on cinematics myself so i'm not much help at the moment. i might do some research on the wardraft map myself later though but when i looked at it before i didn't understand it all. that was when i was looking at the readme comments in the triggers of that map and decided to start getting more serious about map making... now that i understand a lot more about map making in general i think i might understand the triggers in that map much better now.
Compare these quotes and - regardless of your problem - imagine what anyone would think by reading the first one.
Next time you ask for help, please post a nice message of what is the problem (screeny's/drawings/trigger tags, they can all help - not in this case though).
Back to the problem:
Don't press Escape would probably the most logical solution
Another solution, which I've just invented (and therefore is probably not really fit), is to show the same message about 10-20 times and divide the time the message is shown by 10-20 times.
So you get something like this:
Original Trigger:
Original Trigger]
Actions
Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Unit named Guy: Play No sound and display Hey. Modify duration: Add 10.00 seconds and Wait
Modified Trigger:
Warning, this might not be fit for a map
Actions
For each (Integer A) from 1 to 20, do (Actions)
Loop - Actions
Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Unit named Guy: Play No sound and display Hey. Modify duration: Add 0.50 seconds and Wait
Advantage:
Well, it shows the message every 0.5 seconds (while it looks like it's a single trigger) for 10 seconds, if a player presses escape, the message will return in maximum 0.5 seconds.
Disadvantage:
As far as I've seen, it hasn't been used... maybe it has a reason?
Well, check it out, see what it gives, if it didn't work - too bad.
EDIT:
The best thing is to turn off the cinematic when ESC is pressed twice within 10 seconds (it's an easy trigger, just create a timer)
Did you try clearing the dialog?
I almost always clear it before I show it, it might cause problems - I don't know whether that would be the problem though :s
Erm, I don't have much time (I'm sorry), I will check it out later.. this was the first thing on my mind.
Well, at the top of the trigger (I suggest both triggers), add this action:
Dialog - Clear Choosediff
But maybe there's another problem:
You've turned off cinematic mode and letterbox mode?
Most of the time, people only use 1 of them, not both at the same time.
Maybe you didn't turn of letterbox mode, or something like that (I only see the trigger where it turns it off if the cinematic is skipped).
I finally figured out what was wrong i wasnt turning the Esc key trigger off therefore everytime you pressed it the dialog would pop up lmao Thank you for the help.
I finally figured out what was wrong i wasnt turning the Esc key trigger off therefore everytime you pressed it the dialog would pop up lmao Thank you for the help.
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