Skip to content
OpenTS Manual

Brief

Changed in 0.2.0

The mission briefing movie, replayable from the objectives screen.

Specification
Applies to
scenarios
File
map file
Section
[Basic]
Value
movie
When omitted
<none>
map file
[Basic]
Brief=GDI_M02

The movie plays directly after Intro when a mission is started fresh. A restart from the menu or a replay after a loss skips it.

The objectives screen offers the movie again during the mission. When a briefing movie is named, the screen shows a second button beside the resume button. That button pauses the current music track, replays the movie, and then resumes the track from where it paused. With no briefing movie, the resume button sits alone in the center.

The screen fades the written briefing in a line at a time. A briefing longer than one page shows a More button below each page but the last. Space, Enter, Escape or a click during the fade finishes the page at once. On a finished page, Space, Enter or Escape does what More or the resume button does.

A campaign mission with no briefing movie shows the objectives screen at the start instead. The same happens when the movie’s file is missing, although the replay button still appears and then plays nothing. The mission’s Theme track plays behind the screen. This screen appears only on a fresh start, not on a restart or a replay after a loss.

A name missing from the art file’s [Movies] list has the same effect as omitting the key. Intro covers how a movie name is resolved and what happens to one that cannot be found.

See also — Intro, Action, Win, Lose, PostScore, PreMapSelect

History

  1. Changed0.2.0In development

    Show the written briefing when a mission has no briefing movie

  2. Changed0.2.0In development

    Draw the objectives screen as a UI document