OnStart Cutscene keeps replaying everytime I enter the scene

Bik

Hey,
I created a cutscene to trigger at the beginning of a scene. I included it in the OnStart action list, and it worked. However, the cutscene triggers every time I leave and re-enter the scene. How can I ensure it only triggers once?

ChrisIceBox

By design, OnStart will run whenever you start a scene through natural gameplay - i.e. switching to it from another scene, or beginning the game from here.

To run Actions only once, create a Local Boolean variable to keep track of whether it's been run or not.

In the Variables Manager, click the "Local" tab and create a new Boolean variable named e.g. "Played intro". Leave its default value as False.

At the top of your OnStart cutscene, add a Variable: Check Action that checks this variable's value. Only if it's False, run the rest of the Actions that make up the cutscene, and end it with a Variable: Set Action that sets the Variable to True.

The 3D Demo scene, Basement, uses this technique as well.

Bik

Thank you, Chris.