Blackout at start of mission

[pazuzu 21]

How do I have screen blacked out right at beginning of mission?

I tried using: titlecut ["","BLACK out",2] in the init.sqs

But there is a short delay as it goes to blackout so that mission area is visible for a moment before it completely blacks out.

I want it to be black right from start just for a few seconds.

Thanks.

[thobson 38]

Try:

titlecut ["","BLACK IN",10]

or whatever time you want. If you want it to be dark for a long time use 99999 or some other large number

[pazuzu 21]

I tried that and it doesn't start black right away. There is a delay before it goes completely black.

I want this for the mission where players start in halo jump. The chutes I place the units in are visible for a second before they are deleted.

I just want a few seconds of black to allow time for players to eject from chutes & have chutes deleted so it appears as though players are just falling right from start of mission.

Thanks again.

[klavan 0]

Try to put this in the init

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

@Time==0

titlecut ["","BLACK out",0]

Klavan

[Trapper 0]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

titleText [" ","BLACK IN",9999]; 0 fadesound 0

~1

titleText [" ","BLACK IN",1]; 1 fadesound 1

If you use this in the init.sqs the screen is black and there is no sound for one second after the briefing. Then both fades in, in one second.

It's important to use the init.sqs for it, as init lines of units are a little bit later executed.

[thobson 38]

Looks like one of those 'suck it and see' type of problems. The last two code lines of my init.sqs are:

titlecut ["","BLACK IN",99999]

exit

and my mission starts of black, no pause.

[pazuzu 21]

Oh ok, I never tried puting a huge number in like that...

I'll test it.

Thanks.

[Chris Death 0]

Pazuzu, probably you just didn't realize that Thobson

is using BLACK IN, while you're using BLACK OUT.

BLACK IN = from BLACK to light

BLACK OUT = from light to BLACK

you get what i mean?

:edit

@Trapper

Quote[/b] ]It's important to use the init.sqs for it, as init lines of units are a little bit later executed

Here it's the first in first out method which you need to consider.

The init-field of the first unit being placed in editor, will become executed first - the init-field of the last unit being

placed in editor will be executed last.

If you place the player unit first on the map, just try to use

the code in it's init-field, and you'll see that it will work also

~S~ CD