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10 — Play Movie...

Changed in 0.2.0

Plays a movie over the whole screen and resumes the mission when it ends.

Editor data
Numeric ID
10
Engine ID
TACTION_PLAY_MOVIE
Editor name
Play Movie...
Need token
NEED_MOVIE
Parameters
  1. Moviemovie
Attachment
none
INI example
[Actions]
<TriggerID>=1,10,0,<Movie>,0,0,0,0,

Multiplayer movies covers how the launch file turns movies on outside a campaign, and how the players of a game against other machines vote to skip one.

What happens to the music

Section titled “What happens to the music”

The music keeps playing. A track that is playing when the movie starts goes on under the movie’s soundtrack. The action neither queues a track nor stops one.

Caveats
  • Outside a campaign, the movie plays only when the launch file sets PlayMoviesInMultiplayer=yes. Otherwise a skirmish or multiplayer game skips it and goes on with the trigger's remaining actions.
  • A movie whose file is missing or cannot be opened is skipped the same way. So is a movie narrower than 320 pixels and shorter than 200.
  • Escape ends the movie early and the mission resumes. No other key does. In a game against other machines, the movie stops only after every player and observer has pressed Escape.
  • The screen turns black before and after the movie, and the whole display is redrawn when the mission resumes.

History

  1. Changed0.2.0In development

    Movies in multiplayer with a vote to skip