How do I make cinematic transmissions unskippable?

[Michael the Boombringer]

When someone presses esc during a cinematic, the transmission is gone. Can I disable that somehow?

 

[Abovegame]

Isn't there an action that goes something like:

• Actions
  • Cinematic - Make Unskippable

?

 

[Michael the Boombringer]

I don't think there is. I haven't seen any.

 

[Marcos_M]

You could save the text in a string variable, and when a player skips, you put up the text again

 

[LordDz]

If it's for a multiplayer map, you can add a warning the first time it happens and the second time you kick the player.
They do it in vampirism for the intro.

 

[BloodSoul]

Every time you send a transmission, it calls a BJ function that is responsible for skipping it. call TryInitCinematicBehaviorBJ()

It's quite simple, it creates a new trigger (once) which is assigned to a global variable. Then that function adds an event (Press ESC) and actions to it. All you have to do is just disable that trigger, and no one will be able to skip any transmission anymore.

See:

function TryInitCinematicBehaviorBJ takes nothing returns nothing
    local integer index

    if (bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped == null) then
        set bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped = CreateTrigger()
        set index = 0
        loop
            call TriggerRegisterPlayerEvent(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped, Player(index), EVENT_PLAYER_END_CINEMATIC)
            set index = index + 1
            exitwhen index == bj_MAX_PLAYERS
        endloop
        call TriggerAddAction(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped, function CancelCineSceneBJ)
    endif
endfunction

This is just an example on how to prevent it from being executed. I will forcefully execute that BJ function, and disable its trigger when my map initializes:

• Initialization
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • -------- SOME STUFF HERE --------
    • Custom script: call TryInitCinematicBehaviorBJ()
    • Custom script: call DisableTrigger(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped)
    • -------- SOME OTHER STUFF THERE --------

Whenever you feel like re-enabling such thing, you just need to call this:

• Custom script: call EnableTrigger(bj_cineSceneBeingSkipped)

There you go.

 

[Michael the Boombringer]

Ty

 

[Dr Super Good]

For multiplayer maps it is highly recommended to allow cinematics to be skipped if enough players press ESC. Watching the same cinematic dozens of times gets boring and annoying, especially if everyone has already seen it, and greatly effects replay ability.

 

[Michael the Boombringer]

This is actually a kind of troll cinematic, so I really don't want it skipped.