description.ext: briefing value - what it does?

[kju]

The BIKI says:

Skip briefing screen in the mission. Note: Added in 1.05

briefing = 0;

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext#Miscellaneous

Anyone has experience with it?


I did only MP tests. Yet from what I can remember it only hides the
briefing UI. 

[hoz]

Thats what it does, it hides the briefing.

[Wolfrug]

AFAIK, if you want the mission to start without the briefing, simply do not include the briefing.html in your mission file - that works for SP at least. I'm guessing MP needs the briefing screen as a sort of "lobby" - briefing = 0 then hides the visual distraction that is the briefing UI. That's my theory at least

Wolfrug out.

[kju]

Okay I did some more testing. I changed the comment in the BIKI to:

Skip briefing screen for SP missions. If no briefing.html is present, it is skipped anyway.

I cannot see any affect for MP.

You can hide the briefing book via

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showNotePad = 0;