adding a intro

[Taxen0 15]

Hi, I recently made a intro video for the first time in arma 3 and the video looks good when i review it in the editor. however when I export the mission and try to play it in MP the intro sequence never launches.

 

I use the initIntro.sqf file to start the camera script but it seems that it simply won't fire at all. Am I missing something? I was under the impression that anything you build in the Intro part of the editor would start first automatically but clearly thats not how it works =)

[Taxen0 15]

anyone have any tip? I pretty much just need to fix this to complete the mission so I am eager ^^

[R3vo 2652]

Post your code, otherwise we'll be searching the needle in a haystack

[Taxen0 15]

ah, will do that once I come home.

 

But judging by your reply the intro "map" should at least start automagically? I figured that this was something general that I had missed on how to fire the intro map section and not related to the camera script which seems to work fine in preview. that's why I didn't post the code.

 

thanks!

[Taxen0 15]

0 setFog [0.5, 0.05, 0];

_camera = "camera" camCreate [0,0,0];
_camera cameraEffect ["Internal","back"];

CutText ["","Black in",1];

_camera camPrepareTarget [-84456.72,9913.67,-17325.08];
_camera camPreparePos [13759.18,2688.92,312.16];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 0;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
sleep 0.5;

[] spawn {
	sleep 4;
	playMusic ["LeadTrack02_F_EXP", 0];
	sleep 25.5;
	playMusic "";
	playMusic ["LeadTrack03_F_EXP", 27.5];
};

_camera camPrepareTarget [-84456.72,9913.67,-17325.21];
_camera camPreparePos [13759.18,2688.92,28.50];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 30;

sleep 1;
#define DELAY_CHARACTER	0.03;
#define DELAY_CURSOR	0.02;
[
	[
		["Near the city of Lijnhaven.", "<t align = 'top' shadow = '1' size = '0.7' font='PuristaBold'>%1</t><br/>", 2],
		["03:58.", "<t align = 'top' shadow = '1' size = '0.5' font='PuristaBold'>%1</t><br/><br/>", 10],
		["TODO","<t align = 'center' shadow = '1' size = '1.0'>%1</t>", 20]
	]
] spawn BIS_fnc_typeText;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};

[] spawn { 
	sleep 12;
	["ALPHA", "todo"] spawn BIS_fnc_showSubtitle;
	sleep 7;
	["PAPABEAR", "todo"] spawn BIS_fnc_showSubtitle;
	sleep 18;
	["PAPABEAR", "todo"] spawn BIS_fnc_showSubtitle;
	sleep 10;
	["BRAVO", "todo"] spawn BIS_fnc_showSubtitle;
	sleep 5;
	["PAPABEAR", "Roger that Bravo-1."] spawn BIS_fnc_showSubtitle;
};

_camera camPrepareTarget [-53454.25,-67114.38,-24972.43];
_camera camPreparePos [13416.28,2875.72,84.21];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 12;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget [-38170.95,-72126.70,-41232.13];
_camera camPreparePos [13358.02,2932.67,91.26];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 4;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget [-35169.57,-74082.28,-11227.09];
_camera camPreparePos [13319.12,2983.42,43.89];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 6;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget [-71631.39,-44969.54,-21371.84];
_camera camPreparePos [13363.52,3143.84,90.49];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 7;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget [-85541.27,14669.76,-8742.03];
_camera camPreparePos [13416.24,3281.39,73.74];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 7;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget cameratarget;
_camera camPreparePos [13325.61,3457.12,13.54];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 12;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget cameratarget;
_camera camPreparePos [13376.75,3482.89,7.15];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 7;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget cameratarget;
_camera camPreparePos [13375.01,3510.34,6.57];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 6;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};
_camera camPrepareTarget [-64078.03,-58835.33,-9800.94];
_camera camPreparePos [13425.62,3554.27,20.37];
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700;
_camera camCommitPrepared 16;
sleep 6;
[parseText format [ "<t align='top' font='PuristaBold'><t size='4'>""%1""<br></t>
<t size='1'>%2</t></t>", toUpper "MISSION NAME", "              by Taxen0"], [0,-0.12, 1, 0.2], [10, 2], 15, 1.5, 0] spawn BIS_fnc_textTiles;

waituntil {camCommitted _camera};

sleep 2;
CutText ["","Black out",3];
sleep 5;
2 fadeMusic 0;
sleep 3;
playMusic ["", 0];

_camera cameraEffect ["Terminate","back"];
EndIntro = true;

this script is called in the intros init file and the intro map in the editor is filled with some AI units only that follow waypoints. A trigger is waiting for EndIntro = true and end the mission (end1), not sure if that is correct but it seems to work in the editor at least.

[AZCoder 921]

I don't believe initIntro is ever called in multiplayer. At least in Arma 2, you had to put the intro into the mission itself (AFAIK). I use initIntro in SP all the time and it definitely gets called (in SP).

You might consider moving the intro scene into the mission. If not, a possible alternative is to record it as a video and use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_playVideoto play it, although that could increase mission size considerably.

[Taxen0 15]

oh, so the whole intro section (the one you can change to at the top of the editor) is for sp only? that would sure explain a lot. I might be able to make the intro on the scenario map instead, just have to move some units and things around.

[Taxen0 15]

I got the intro working now after moving it to the regular mission. Thanks!

However now I have another issue, when I finish loading the map there is a delay where i still see the loading screen but I can hear ingame sound and so on, which means I have loaded and the intro triggers, making me miss the first part.

Is there a way to detect when all players have loaded in "properly"?