extending the beginning of an intro...

[bedges]

happy new year all.

i'm trying to extend the black screen shown at the beginning of an intro. in the description file i notice an

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onloadintro = "intro title text here..."
is it possible to call a script there? there's an intro script with all the camera gubbins in it anyways, but i can't seem to get the black screen to stop from fading in. my initial attempt used

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titletext [" ","black out", 0]
~5
to try to make the screen go black and stay black, but no joy.

pointers to the appropriate tutes or a simple solution gratefully appreciated.
cheers

[Dubieman]

Well,

I'm a little confused on what you want, but I'll try anyways.

onloadintro = "fun text that is only text and nothing more"

Just sets the text to something different then "Get Ready". Doesn't affect blackout time.


Well you should be able to put this at the start of your intro.sqs:

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titlecut [" ","BLACK OUT",3]


_camera = "camera" camcreate [0,0,0]
_camera cameraeffect ["internal", "back"]

~5
;now your cam shots and stuff....

Well that would be the look of the script, just change the delay to something longer. I've never done this before so if that doesn't work add to the number in the titlecut code, make it 10 or something.

Blackout will never come back to a reg screen until the code whitein or blackin is used, I'm pretty sure so play with it.

[bedges]

hokay, well in a nutshell i want to begin the intro with a looooong black sequence with some white text coming in, more than just once, to build up the atmosphere nice and slow before beginning the intro proper. but the single default fade-in from black seems to be all i can get, and as you said, it has one set of text and fades in over about a second and that's that.

the cuttext syntax doesn't seem to be accurate, as putting for example

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cuttext ["This is some text right here.","black"]
doesn't display text on a black screen, it fades into black just like

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cuttext ["This is some more text just here.","black out"]
it very weird. and a pain  too.

and i have indeed experimented quite a bit with the various options, but their behaviour is not as one might expect.

ho hum. just me being a control freak once again i expect, but it would be nice to have the intro just so after the effort that's gone into it.

thanks meantime
b

[RujiK]

Easy enough.
Just put in the init.sqs file titlecut ["","Black in",10000000]
Then, just use titletext ["Text","Plain Down"] and once you have all the text put in that you want put in ["","Black in",3] or however long you wish.

[bedges]

that's just what i needed! sneaky way of doing it if i may say so

thanks muchly.