Starting cut scene

[sloppy]

At the beginning of my game, I have 2 rooms that form a cut scene, the first is just text.  That's where I've started the cut scene:

Code: ags

StartCutscene(eSkipESCOnly);
mouse.Visible = false;
Wait(200);
player.ChangeRoom(2, 153, 133);

EndCutscene() is at the end of Room 2.
But when I press the escape key the game freezes.  Does it have anything to do with the Wait command?

[Candle]

Be very careful with where you place the corresponding EndCutscene command. The script must pass through EndCutscene in its normal run in order for the skipping to work - otherwise, when the player presses ESC the game could appear to hang.

From the help file

[sloppy]

Be very careful with where you place the corresponding EndCutscene command. The script must pass through EndCutscene in its normal run in order for the skipping to work - otherwise, when the player presses ESC the game could appear to hang.

From the help file

Yeah I did read that but didn't quite understand what it meant.  I don't want to appear dense, it's probably the most basic thing, but could someone explain that to me?

[Barbarian]

Your code chould look like this:

Code: ags

StartCutscene(eSkipESCOnly);
mouse.Visible = false;
Wait(200);
EndCutscene();
player.ChangeRoom(2, 153, 133);

Ã,  Ã,  The StartCutscene and EndCutscene command should be used within the same script.
If you change the room within the script before having the matching EndCutscene command, essentially all other commands after the ChangeRoom command would be ignored, so that's why the game get's "confused" and freezes up, because the script get's "interrupted" and the Startcutscene and Endcutscene command no longer "correspond" to each other.
Ã,  Ã,  See what I mean?Ã,  Okay, basically, never put more queued commands in an individual room script after a "ChangeRoom" command.

[Ashen]

Does it work OK if you don't try to skip the cutscene? And where does the game 'freeze'? (In the second room, or before changing.)

The Wait command, and the ChangeRoom shouldn't really affect it (I tried exactly what you have, with just a simple 'display message, turn mouse back on, end cutscene' in the second room, and it works fine). However, you could try changing it to WaitKey/MouseKey. You could also try making the two scripts seperate cutscenes, as Barbarian suggested.

Otherwise, it's likely to be something in the rest of the cutscene code, in the other room - is there anyway you could post that, without revealing too much of your game?.

[sloppy]

I did what Barbarian said and put the StartCutscene and EndCutscene commands in the same script and it works.  I thought you could skip the entire cutscene that included changing several rooms, but now I see you can't.