Prevent Video and Cutscene Skipping (h2)

Name	By
Prevent Skipping of Videos/Cutscenes	AFRLme

This tutorial shows you how to prevent the player from being able to skip videos &/or cutscenes. Visionaire Studio 4.1+ is required for this to work.

Tutorial

Preventing skipping of videos &/or cutscenes is actually very simple. All you need is 1 condition & an event handler that listens out for the ESC key. So let's begin...

You should start off by creating a condition somewhere & naming it cond_skip_cv & set it to false by default if you want to prevent players from being allowed to skip videos on game start; else set condition to true.

Next you need to create a definition script containing a registerEventHandler for keyEvents - if you don't already have one. Quick note: you are only allowed one registerEventHandler type per game - the only exception to this rule is the mainLoop handler.

Here is an example of the key event handler...

function keyboardHandler(eventType, character, keycode, modifiers)
  if eventType==eEvtKeyUp then
    print('key up: ' .. keycode)
    -- test for '0' with character parameter
    if character == '0' then print('0 released') end
    -- another option to test '0' key
    if keycode == 48 then print('0 released') end
  elseif eventType==eEvtKeyDown then
    print('key down: ' .. keycode)
  elseif eventType==eEvtKeyTextInput then
    -- this will also show more 'complex' unicode characters when multiple keys are used to generate a single character (e.g. Chinese characters)
    print('input: ' .. character)
  end
  if keycode == eKeyEscape then
    -- event will not be handled by engine. this means that also cutscenes can't be skipped with Escape key
    return true
  end
  return false -- key event will also be handled by engine
end
 
registerEventHandler("keyEvent", "keyboardHandler")

You need to add this line to your keyEvent handler...

if Conditions["cond_skip_cv"].ConditionValue == false and keycode == eKeyEscape then return true end

...It tells the keyEvent handler to ignore the escape key if condition cond_skip_cv returns false.

So what you might end up with is something like...

function keyboardHandler(eventType, character, keycode, modifiers)
  if Conditions["cond_skip_cv"].ConditionValue == false and keycode == eKeyEscape then return true end
  return false
end
 
registerEventHandler("keyEvent", "keyboardHandler")

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