JIP troubles...

[Bulldog72 10]

When exactly does the player start to "see" terrain through his toon's eyes and how can I pinpoint this moment?

My init works with one little problem: for less than a second or so but clearly too long the JIP player can see himself standing in the location where the unit was placed on in the editor; then the jip spawn script moves him into a parachute as it should be.

Below are the relevant parts of my init.sqf:

...
[] execVM "briefing.sqf";
finishMissionInit;

//non-JIP
if (!(isNull player)) then
{
player switchMove "amovpercmstpslowwrfldnon_player_idlesteady03";
};

//JIPs
if (!isServer && isNull player) then
{
 cutText ["JIP spawn...","BLACK",0];
 waitUntil {!isNull player};
[] execVM "scripts\JIP_spawn.sqf";
};

As soon as I know I have a JIP I black out the screen so he would'nt see the "wrong" location. The jip_spawn.sqf creates the parachute, moves the player in it and then I restore his vision.

But I'm not fast enough obviously because for half a second or so, he still can see himself standing in the wrong location waiting for the jip script to move him... how can I get rid of that?

[xeno 234]

Put this in init.sqf:

if (!isDedicated) then {
   onPreloadFinished {
       // player can now see the 3D world
       // Execute whatever you want but be aware this is executed in a eventhandler environment
       onPreloadFinished {};
   };
};

In your code snippet above remove finishMissionInit (absolutely not needed) and execute briefing.sqf once the player object is not null anymore (important for JIP).

Xeno

[roguetrooper 2]

You can also cover the screen black from the very beginning in the init.sqs and then fade in the screen after one or a few seconds:

Put into init.sqs at its VERY END:

if (isDedicated) then {exit};
0 fadesound 0;
0 fademusic 0;
0 cutText ["","black faded",0];
~1.0
1 fadesound 1;
1 fademusic 1;
0 cutText ["","plain in",1];

[Bulldog72 10]

Ty both!