Two simple questions to annoy you

[James Kay]

1. Background panel for dialog options (Lucasarts stylee). Possible, I presume. But how? (I mean, have something nice in the background of the dialog options rather than the usual standard black)

2. Can I spread a cutscene skip command over several rooms? E.g. Room 1, Startcutscene(1) [whatever], NewRoom(2), blah blah, NewRoom(3); blah blah EndCutscene(); ? Will skipping it in Room 1 then go to the end of the cutscene script in room 3?

Sorry sorry sorry for being such a n00b.  

[SSH]

1. Background panel for dialog options (Lucasarts stylee). Possible, I presume. But how? (I mean, have something nice in the background of the dialog options rather than the usual standard black)

Yes: set the Game option "Dialog options on GUI X" to some GUI number...

2. Can I spread a cutscene skip command over several rooms? E.g. Room 1, Startcutscene(1) [whatever], NewRoom(2), blah blah, NewRoom(3); blah blah EndCutscene(); ? Will skipping it in Room 1 then go to the end of the cutscene script in room 3?

Yes. Skipping a cutscene effectively invisibly fast-forwards your script until the EndCutscene command.

[James Kay]

Cheers!  

[MacGyverMagic]

Of course you could write a seperate cutscene to play for each room. Then let them play individually one after the other... This way you can skip them one at a time....

Or am I being N00b here?

[TerranRich]

You ARE a n00b here!

No, seriously though, that's a great point, MacGyver, and something that people might want to take note of.