VFX in an Enter Map cut scene......(help)... .

[Tantalus]

I have a cut scene that's activated when you are warped to a map (the script's in the enter map slot of the WO) I have a forest fire in the background while the title comes up and the characters walk across. But the fire VFX won't start until you gain control of the player (until all the rest of the script is carried out) I've tried a lot and I can't get it to come up before everything else is done.

[RPGD]

I may be a bit rusty, but here's a simple solution: Have the screen remain pitch black when you enter the map, and have the fire effects start up (make sure it isn't an action script effect, and set the effect repeat to 0). REMEMBER! Make sure you set the marker of the fire effect itself to 0 F in the VFX editor, otherwise everything will freeze after the fire effect starts, and we don't want that, do we? Once it's ablaze, slowly return the screen to normal and let the script run normally. That should do it.

[Dungeon Warden]

I believe you need to use Apply together before the VFX if you want anything else to happen once the fire starts. Setting the Frame to 0, only allows other effects to start. So if you want several effects to run and the characters to be able to move, you need to do both (set the Start Frame to 0 on all the effects and put Apply together in front of any effect set to run continuously (repeat set to 0)).

[RPGD]

Not necessarily. By ticking the "marker" box in the VFX file of the effect itself in the Editor and setting it to 0 F, the effect will not interrupt anything from happening. I haven't had any problems with this at all.

[Dungeon Warden]

Maybe it depends if it is a content or action script, because I couldn't get anything to run after a visual effect was put in a content script regardless of where the marker was. There may be a difference between 2D and 3D visual effects as well. I guess if it works without it, don't bother with the Apply Together, but if you do have trouble, try Apply Together and see if that helps.