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Title: Load intro when all is ready
Post by: Binary on 23 Aug 2011, 23:44:23

Hi all  :)

I know that this is possible - but i just can't find a working example of it..
When the mission starts, i want to black the screen, wait until all players have "loaded the world", and then play the intro. So that all players start the intro at the same time :)

Title: Re: Load intro when all is ready
Post by: Pirin on 24 Aug 2011, 01:07:24

The easiest way is to just have the admin of the server hold at the map screen till everyone's "blued up", then click Continue.

Title: Re: Load intro when all is ready
Post by: Binary on 24 Aug 2011, 18:21:39

This does not solve the issue, even when all players manually have blued up, because of the difference in hardware - the world will never be loaded at the same time

Title: Re: Load intro when all is ready
Post by: Wolfrug on 24 Aug 2011, 19:20:11

Not sure how it works in MP, but the preload series of commands is used in SP at least to preload cutscenes and the like, thus minimizing lag and texture/lod popping. The commands used are camPreload (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=details&id=414&game=All) and camPreloaded (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=details&id=415&game=All). So something like:

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_camera camPreload 60;
waitUntil {camPreloaded _camera};
and it'll wait for a maximum of 60 seconds for the scene to preload for everyone (the scene prepared by _camera, I'd imagine, so just put that in front of the camCommit).

Wolfrug out.