[Solved] Detecting Cinematic Mode

[Shaddark]

Hi guys, I messed up, I made 2 maps already, going to the 3rd now and in the middle of this I decided to make a camera fixed in the hero for my campaign, it works wonders but now I have make it stop working in cinematics, so to fix every single cinematic and damn it's a lot of cinematics, I wonder if there's a way to detect if the player is in cinematic mode.

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

Yeah, just set a boolean to True whenever you activate cinematic mode, then you make a condition check in your other triggers.

 

[Chaosy]

Certain cameras (I think) gives more vision, perhaps checking if a unit is visible in a corner of the map could work.

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

Should look roughly like this:

Spoiler

• Activate Cinematic Mode
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing 1 as An exact match
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode On for (All players)
    • Set CinematicMode = True

• Deactivate Cinematic Mode
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing 2 as An exact match
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode Off for (All players)
    • Set CinematicMode = False

• Check For Cinematic Mode
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
    • CinematicMode Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Trigger - Run (This trigger) (ignoring conditions)

Don't use this exact trigger as it will crash the game when you activate cinematic mode, but there you see the required settings to detect if a player is in cinematic mode or not.

 

[Chaosy]

Better idea if you wanna go that route.
Use a vjass hook then set a variable

 

[MN Lahmar]

In the campaign maps they used a Boolean whenever a cinematic sequence begins.

• Set InCinematic = True

and when it ends

• -------- Start Game --------
• Set InCinematic = False

 

[Shaddark]

I know guys, that is the hard way, the thing is I have almost 20 quests in the map 2, each have a 'replay cinematic' button that's a shorter cinematic, each have almost like 2~4 steps of cinematics and there are dialogs that sends to different cinematics, and there are the main story cinematics... I'm afraid I'm gonna mess up if I gonna have to look into almost 100 cinematics and set 2 boolean variables one at the start one at the end to every single one individualy. I wish it had a way to detect it automaticaly.

I guess I was lucky to only worry about the map 2 bcs map 1 is introduction map and I did just like you guys said, and map3 is in it's beggining.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Use a vJASS hook to set it automatically then. Depending on which GUI function you use it will be CinematicModeBJ() or CinematicModeExBJ(). You will still have to create the boolean variable InCinematic in the variable editor.

library TrackCinematic
function CineFlag takes boolean flag, force who returns nothing
  set udg_InCinematic = flag
endfunction

function CineFlagEx takes boolean flag, force who, real dur returns nothing
  set udg_InCinematic = flag
endfunction

hook CinematicModeBJ CineFlag
hook CinematicModeExBJ CineFlagEx
endlibrary

Not sure how this interacts with players pressing esc to skip a cinematic. You will have to test that.

 

[Shaddark]

Use a vJASS hook to set it automatically then. Depending on which GUI function you use it will be CinematicModeBJ() or CinematicModeExBJ(). You will still have to create the boolean variable InCinematic in the variable editor.

function CineFlag takes boolean flag, force who
  set udg_InCinematic = flag
endfunction

function CineFlagEx takes boolean flag, force who, real dur
  set udg_InCinematic = flag
endfunction

hook CinematicModeBJ CineFlag
hook CinematicModeExBJ CineFlagEx

Not sure how this interacts with players pressing esc to skip a cinematic. You will have to test that.

Hmm, how do you do that, exacly? I don't know vJass and I have a boolean variable "Cinematic_On".

Will it detect each time I use "Cinematic mode On/Off" action and put it on that boolean variable?

 

[Chaosy]

More or less. You can literary just copy that code and then use the InCinematic variable

 

[Pyrogasm]

Change udg_InCinematic to udg_Cinematic_On in both functions.

 

[Shaddark]

It gives a Compile error: expected "returns"

This should be easy to fix, shame idk anything about vJass, gonna need help with that.

 

[Pyrogasm]

You could learn; it’s not complicated. I edited my post above to include the appropriate “returns nothing”s and put it in a library.

 

[Shaddark]

You could learn; it’s not complicated. I edited my post above to include the appropriate “returns nothing”s and put it in a library.

Thanks man, works great. +rep
I don't have much time to learn it, I always work on my project with the tools that I have every early months of the year that I have time to spare.