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Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

...battles.

(seriously, guys, get your mind out of the gutters)

would it be possible to have a plotscript command to disable the fade to white when entering/exiting/whatever a battle? i'm sure this will be nice for people who want to make custom enter battle "fades". in my case, there is a spot in w:p1 where i actually do (yes i really do) want to enter and exit a battle with absolutely no fade in whatsoever. i want the game to snp from the map to the battle instantly, and back again after th battle.

no hurry on this. i'm notoriously slow.
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Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

so this is how irrelivant i've become? nobody bothers answering my question.
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Kenji Murasame · **Shizuma** Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 103 Location: ON TO

I hope it's possible. I'd like to see that too. No fade would speed dungeons up a lot and make random battles less annoying.

Moogle1 · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject:

Not to mention allowing your own custom transitions. This would be easy enough to implement and potentially quite useful.
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TMC · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject:

I've been "holidaying" for the past week (sitting at home relaxing and ignoring email/forums, instead of the normal sitting at home thinking about working on things and then browsing forums instead) so never saw.

It might be possible to remove the fade. However, the fade is also probably there to hide some setting up of graphics. There might be a small flicker if removed.

A general game bitset and plotscripting commands to turn this on and off could be implemented.
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Iblis · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:

I suggest letting the user specify their own battle-fade script, like how we also have new-game scripts and game-over scripts and such. If the user doesn't specify a battle-fade script, it does the fade to white as normal, but if they do, it'll run whatever script they wrote for it.

If this is possible, could there perhaps be a door-fade script as well? Both of these would be useful for me.
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TMC · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:43 am Post subject:

Difficult to do: The fade out script would have to be called in the middle of a battle when fading out after the battle. Also, a door fade out script would interfer horribly with a map autorun script: the autorun script would be called halfway through the fade, which would never complete. Therefore I believe that that might not be possible to do, though I do see that it would be far nicer than having to explictly script every single battle fade out/in
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FyreWulff · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

Mike Caron · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

TMC · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:41 am Post subject:

Yes. But what if the autorun contains an infinite loop. Hell, what if it contains any wait commands at all? The fade won't complete until the autorun script has quit.

Semiunrelated, a killscript() command would be pretty cool
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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

Mike Caron · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject:

You know, launchscript() would be almost as cool. And, it's "Geek minds think alike"
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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

Mike Caron · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:06 pm Post subject:

runscript() is just like running a command normally: It's blocking.

launchscript() would run a script in a new thread. It's non-blocking. Good for multiple infinite loops.
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TMC · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:17 am Post subject:

Dear Mike,

Your last reply and some other comments of yours that I have seen recently seem to indicate a misconception of the way scripts work. We DON'T HAVE multiple thread like scripts. And implementing that would be a total rewrite of the interpreter. The current one runs at a rocking speed in FBOHR so I wouldn't bother.
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