How to skip a CinemaDirector Cutscene when triggered by a conversion?

dude

u5.3.5,ac1.51g

the situation:

I have an AC.Cutscene (ActionList) that starts a conversation.

Each Dialoge Option triggers a different Director.Cutscene.

A friend tested my game and didn't like that he wasn't able to skip the director cutscenes.

how:

So I made a UI Button which calls the "Skip" Function of the AC.Action that triggers the Director cutscene in the dialogue option. (a global delegate reference to "Skip" is set when run)

the expected:

So the behaviour that would be nice is: the director cutscenes skips (works as expected) and return to the conversation. 

the problem:

It does return to the conversation after the full length of the cutscene because the wait until is checked --> returns the duration float.

if I uncheck the "wait until" then 0f is returned and the conversation appears although the cutscene is running (not desirable).

the question:

What could I do to make a director cutscene started by a conversation skippable, so that it returns immediately to the conversation, but also hides the conversation until the director.cutscene has finished when not skipped?

Before I create wild constructs and code with locking and unlocking menus i thought I better ask here this time

ChrisIceBox

You don't need to resort to calling the Action's Skip function directly (and that will cause problems if you do).  Instead you want to invoke the "EndCutscene" Input button.  I would recommend testing this out as an input key before making a UI button.  Once that's working, you can make your UI button's Click type (in the Menu Manager) Simulate Input so that you can simulate the pressing of the "EndCutscene" input.

dude

Thank you. Works perfectly. Big thumb up!!!

I'll leave this screenshot for the AC community.