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Offline kju

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description.ext: briefing value - what it does?
« on: 04 Mar 2009, 18:28:00 »
The BIKI says:

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Skip briefing screen in the mission. Note: Added in 1.05

briefing = 0;

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext#Miscellaneous

Anyone has experience with it?


I did only MP tests. Yet from what I can remember it only hides the
briefing UI.  :dunno:

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Re: description.ext: briefing value - what it does?
« Reply #1 on: 04 Mar 2009, 18:34:45 »
Thats what it does, it hides the briefing. :D
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Re: description.ext: briefing value - what it does?
« Reply #2 on: 04 Mar 2009, 19:24:31 »
AFAIK, if you want the mission to start without the briefing, simply do not include the briefing.html in your mission file - that works for SP at least. I'm guessing MP needs the briefing screen as a sort of "lobby" - briefing = 0 then hides the visual distraction that is the briefing UI. That's my theory at least :)

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Re: description.ext: briefing value - what it does?
« Reply #3 on: 05 Mar 2009, 09:57:33 »
Okay I did some more testing. I changed the comment in the BIKI to:

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Skip briefing screen for SP missions. If no briefing.html is present, it is skipped anyway.

I cannot see any affect for MP.

You can hide the briefing book via

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showNotePad = 0;