Black Out screen immediately at mission start? [SOLVED]

[johnnyboy 3789]

Hi guys, I want screen to be black immediately when mission starts so player doesn't see some objects being moved in the init.sqf.  Then screen will "black in"  when all is perfect for player to see.

 

The first statement in my init.sqf is this titleCut with BLACK OUT, but the problem is its not 100% immediate.  Player first sees the world for a half second before black out executes.

titlecut ["... 3 days after taking down the drug lab, Valdez visits the hospital...","BLACK OUT",0];

How do I achieve a true BLACK OUT at start of mission?

[GEORGE FLOROS GR 4207]

4 minutes ago, johnnyboy said:

BLACK OUT at start of mission

 

 

Hello there johnnyboy !

 

I'm using this mainly in the respawns ,

you can put this in the initPlayerLocal.sqf

cutText ["","BLACK FADED",2];
sleep 1;
[parseText format  
["<t align='center' font='PuristaBold' size='2.8'>""Get ready""</t>" ], 
true, nil,  7, 0.7, 0] spawn BIS_fnc_textTiles; //7, 0.7, 0	//1, 0.7, 0

sleep 2;
cutText ["", "BLACK IN", 1];

 

[johnnyboy 3789]

57 minutes ago, GEORGE FLOROS GR said:

cutText ["","BLACK FADED",0];

Thanks George!  CutText in the initPlayerLocal.sqf did it for me.  It appears that executes first and faster than init.sqf.

[AZCoder 921]

If it's of any interest, here is the initialization order and stuff https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Initialization_Order

 

[HazJ 1289]

Another method would be:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/startLoadingScreen

[AZCoder 921]

9 hours ago, HazJ said:

Another method would be:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/startLoadingScreen

 

I don't know if it's still the case but in Arma 2 if you had any script errors between the start and stop of loading screen, it would sit on the load screen infinitely (in SP).

So don't make errors!