Skyfade triggering from dialogue prompt.

saerrael · June 2013

I'm trying to get a Skyfade (the fade to black to be precise) to appear on a dialogue prompt. For some reason it just does not wish to become visible in 3d editing mode for me. I've seen it get used before, and I'm pretty certain I'm understanding the mechanics, but maybe I'm missing something.

Edit after fix : Apparently inky clouds can conflict with skyfades. Adding this line of text here for people experiencing the same problem and looking for the solution.
( I've not tested every FX's conflicts, so yours may be another one. I'm thinking it may be volume FXs conflicting with each other, so you may start to look there.)

glantorx · June 2013

It may not work until published I can't be certain of this but somethings do not work until published like ambushes, patrols and follows.

lolsorhand · June 2013

glantorx wrote: »

It may not work until published I can't be certain of this but somethings do not work until published like ambushes, patrols and follows.

Patrols and follows work for me though.

thehuntress · June 2013

I know that "wander" doesn't work till the quest is published.

ash4ll · June 2013

Fade to black has range, it's invisible tho. Maybe you've put it too far?

zefrimex · June 2013

I will bet you this is what it is: You have another effect going on that supersedes it. You can only have one of the area special fx active at a time. If you have any other skyfade or outdoor environmental effect on it generally can'y do both. I feel like there you used to be a budget to 2 or 3 at a time, but now it seems like only one. I experienced this trying to have both skyfade: black and white on and the fade to black would not trigger. Hope that helps.

groshie · June 2013

zefrimex wrote: »

I will bet you this is what it is: You have another effect going on that supersedes it. You can only have one of the area special fx active at a time. If you have any other skyfade or outdoor environmental effect on it generally can'y do both. I feel like there you used to be a budget to 2 or 3 at a time, but now it seems like only one. I experienced this trying to have both skyfade: black and white on and the fade to black would not trigger. Hope that helps.

I played around with skyfades today as well and found this to be true, atleast if they are triggered by the same event or at the same time. Hope you get it fixed soon!

saerrael · June 2013

ash4ll wrote: »

Fade to black has range, it's invisible tho. Maybe you've put it too far?

It's planted near the trigger (npc). The player can not be too far away from it due to the range on ‘talk to’.

zefrimex wrote: »

I will bet you this is what it is: You have another effect going on that supersedes it. You can only have one of the area special fx active at a time. If you have any other skyfade or outdoor environmental effect on it generally can'y do both. I feel like there you used to be a budget to 2 or 3 at a time, but now it seems like only one. I experienced this trying to have both skyfade: black and white on and the fade to black would not trigger. Hope that helps.

There are other FXes in that room, yes, but no other skyfades. On my test map, however, there are no other FXes than what I am currently testing out and I have the same problem there.
I'll try nixing until I get a response in the actual map, though. Thanks for the suggestion.

groshie wrote: »

I played around with skyfades today as well and found this to be true, atleast if they are triggered by the same event or at the same time. Hope you get it fixed soon!

Me too. Kind of scratching the back of my head at the moment.

Edit: found it and fixed it. Had a rogue inky cloud still in the dialogue tree which conflicted.
Thank you very much, people, for your time, your thoughts and creativity.

Skyfade triggering from dialogue prompt.

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