Debriefings

[grayman]

In the Campaign material, I see that we can do a debriefing video between the Mission Complete and Mission Stats screen.

 

Is there a way to do a text debriefing?

[SiyahParsomen]

I can't help but I wonder why do you need that in first place?

 

You can use briefing of the next mission for that purpose.

[Sotha]

Is there a way to do a text debriefing?

 

+1!

 

Me and someone else too thought about this just the other day. It would be really cool to a mission debriefing, akin of mainmenu_briefing.gui. Mappers could do what they want.

 

Siyah, most of our missions are single FMs. No continuity. Debriefings would be most valuable.

[grayman]

I can't help but I wonder why do you need that in first place?

 

You can use briefing of the next mission for that purpose.

[grayman]

that's what i get for replying via iphone.

 

i need it because i need it.

 

using the briefing of the next mission only works in a campaign.

[SiyahParsomen]

oh, I see.

[BlueSkyBullet]

Debris things? Just scatter some shit about, that'll do..

[RPGista]

Indeed, there is a use that would justify this completely, you could have a debriefing story that concludes the plot of your mission with what could be texts or pictures, enhancing the dramatic impact of whatever that story or feel might be. It was done successfully in Above the City and A Score to Settle, but a simple "briefing" would be a lot less expensive to create than an animated movie, specially for not so advanced mappers.

Edited April 3, 2012 by RPGista

[grayman]

Somewhere Above the City used a cutscene to end the mission, controlled by scripting.

 

But I've been thinking about a short debriefing text to end the mission I'm working on. I already have a cutscene in the works to end it, like in SATC, but I'd like to follow it with a "If I only knew then what I know now" sort of debriefing text.

[Springheel]

It's been a while now since I looked at it, but I think the gui just calls a material shader, and you enter the duration separately. If that's the case, might it work if your material shader pointed to a regular image (that contained text)? You might not be able to fade in multiple paragraphs like a briefing, but that might work for a single page of debriefing text.

 

Worst case scenario would be taking that image and converting it to .roq format, but I'm not sure there's anything in the .gui that cares whether it is actually a video or not (though I could be wrong).

[pusianka]

Can I even go with negativeness? I dislike the mission complete words and music. They break the mood for me, hence there is a point of what Grayman wants...

Edited April 4, 2012 by pusianka

[greebo]

In the Campaign material, I see that we can do a debriefing video between the Mission Complete and Mission Stats screen.

Is there a way to do a text debriefing?

No, unless you override the mainmenu_debriefing_video.gui file, which is not recommended since it's a vanilla TDM file and subject to change.

 

One might need to add that option to mainmenu_utils.gui and add the corresponding switches in the mainmenu_custom_defs.gui file.