End mission when player dies

[Janat 10]

When the player dies in SP mission, I'd want the screen to fade black and then end the mission. Is this possible?

Edited December 6, 2010 by Janat

[MeIvin 10]

Hello.

Yes it's possible.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=109926

Kind Regards

Melvin

[Janat 10]

Thanks. But now if I wanted the mission to end only after a certain trigger has been activated, and if player dies before the trigger's been activated the default menu with revert and abort options shows up. Would that be possible?

[MeIvin 10]

Thanks. But now if I wanted the mission to end only after a certain trigger has been activated, and if player dies before the trigger's been activated the default menu with revert and abort options shows up. Would that be possible?

Hello.

In the trigger you want to have activated first put a variable (ie. cheesecake) true. onAct: cheesecake = true;

then in the ending trigger put

condition: !(alive player) AND cheesecake

or whatever you had there already and add AND cheesecake.

Regards

Melvin

[Janat 10]

Hello.

In the trigger you want to have activated first put a variable (ie. cheesecake) true. onAct: cheesecake = true;

then in the ending trigger put

condition: !(alive player) AND cheesecake

or whatever you had there already and add AND cheesecake.

Regards

Melvin

I did so but the mission doesn't end. You just die normally. There's no debriefing. That's why I came to ask about it here. Though I've only tried it in editor, maybe it indeed works outside of editor? I don't know and can't try right now.

Edited December 5, 2010 by Janat

[MeIvin 10]

Hello.

I'm wondering, did you read the other post? Because I think it explains the exact problem you have. Or maybe I didn't understand the post I linked. I think I did though :)

Kind Regards

Melvin

[Janat 10]

I have to admit that I read it very quickly and didn't see all those important bits. Now I think I know how to do it.

[Janat 10]

After experimenting a little bit, I can't get my onPlayerKilled.sqs work properly. I have tried this script:

titleCut ["","BLACK OUT",5]
5 fadeMusic 0
~7
if outroo  then endMission "END1" else enableEndDialog
exit

But regardless of whether "outroo" is true or false, mission ends. I've also tried outroo == true and outroo = true in place of outroo, but none of them work.

On the other hand, this script always gives the revert menu, no matter what "outroo" status is.

enableEndDialog
titleCut ["","BLACK OUT",5]
5 fadeMusic 0
~7
if outroo  then endMission "END1"
exit

Also tried this but it didn't work at all. No dialog what so ever, I had to alt-F4 out of the game.

titleCut ["","BLACK OUT",5]
5 fadeMusic 0
~7
? outroo: endMission "END1"
? !outroo: enableEndDialog
exit

[Janat 10]

No one knows what's wrong with my script?

[zwobot 22]

I can't verify this in the editor right now but my guess is there are some brackets missing in your if .. then statement:

if (outroo)  then {endMission "END1";}
// maybe you even have to use if {...} instead of if (...) - not sure about the syntax right now

In addition I think you are not supposed to actually use the endMission command. Instead you should use a boolean variable in conjunction with an end trigger in the editor and the variable as condition.

[Janat 10]

I can't verify this in the editor right now but my guess is there are some brackets missing in your if .. then statement:

if (outroo)  then {endMission "END1";}
// maybe you even have to use if {...} instead of if (...) - not sure about the syntax right now

In addition I think you are not supposed to actually use the endMission command. Instead you should use a boolean variable in conjunction with an end trigger in the editor and the variable as condition.

Doesn't work with those brackets either. Also, I now have onPlayerKilled.sqs with execVM "onPlayerKilled.sqf" and onPlayerKilled.sqf with this script:

titleCut ["","BLACK OUT",5];
5 fadeMusic 0;
sleep 7;
if (outroo == false) then {
enableEndDialog;
} else {
endMission "END1";
};

And using it I have to alt-F4 out of the game.

EndMission should work in scripts.

Never mind I got it working using sqs:

titleCut ["","BLACK OUT",5]
5 fadeMusic 0
~7
if outroo then {endMission "LOSER"} else {enableEndDialog}

Also sqf version works too

titleCut ["","BLACK OUT",5];
5 fadeMusic 0;
if outroo then {
sleep 7;
endMission "END1";
} else {
enableEndDialog;
};

Edited December 8, 2010 by Janat

[zwobot 22]

Sorry, I might have confused the endMission with forceEnd...