[Annorax]

How easy would it be to code the cutscene playing code to suppress the placeholder briefing screen after a cutscene is successfully played? It gets mildly annoying to have to click "OK" on a briefing that contains only a transcript of what was said in the cutscene the player just saw.

[Goober5000]

The cutscene playing code has nothing to do with the briefing.  If you don't want a briefing in your mission, just check the "no briefing" box in FRED.

[Annorax]

Originally posted by Goober5000
The cutscene playing code has nothing to do with the briefing.  If you don't want a briefing in your mission, just check the "no briefing" box in FRED.

FREDding something out doesn't help when it's the main campaign. How bad would it be to code something so that if the .avi cutscene plays successfully, the screen afterward that only has the text from that cutscene (that's been in SCP builds since before I can remember) shouldn't show? I'm thinking this ideally wouldn't be a FRED issue, but rather something the fs2_open exe should decide and detect on its own... "is the cutscene avi present? if yes, then play it and no text screen. if no, then show the text screen like 3.6.5 does."

It's not vital, it's not even really important, it's just a "not quite perfect form" sort of thing. If it's in a different area than things you want to work on for the time being, I understand. It's just something that randomly popped into my head today after seeing a cutscene play for the first time in more than a year.

[karajorma]

But there are no missions in the main campaign for which the the briefing is a simple repeat of the cutscene anyway.

If you find a list of missions you don't want briefings on just tell me and I'll fix them for you. It wouldn't take me much more than a minute.

[Annorax]

Originally posted by karajorma
But there are no missions in the main campaign for which the the briefing is a simple repeat of the cutscene anyway.

If you find a list of missions you don't want briefings on just tell me and I'll fix them for you. It wouldn't take me much more than a minute.

It's not worth that since I'm clearly insane.

[Goober5000]

Are you playing the FSPort?

The FSPort has transcripts of the Ancients cutscenes on the command briefings following where the cutscenes should be.  This is for the benefit of people who don't have the cutscenes.  And there's no way to disable them depending on whether a cutscene does or doesn't play.

[Annorax]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Are you playing the FSPort?

The FSPort has transcripts of the Ancients cutscenes on the command briefings following where the cutscenes should be.  This is for the benefit of people who don't have the cutscenes.  And there's no way to disable them depending on whether a cutscene does or doesn't play.

That answers my question. Thanks.

[Goober5000]

Good.  You're welcome.