[In 11.4.0] Change in behaviour of "Goto" queues

[einhirn]

Hi Mike,

I'm currently using SCS 10.8.4 but checked the trial of current SCS11 and it still displays the same behaviour: A goto cue acts just like a click in the cue list (with a 'Go' afterwards). This behaviour gets in my way, when I have a helicopter sound with a looping audio file cue with some level change cues afterwards that are looping via goto:

cue list example for the issue

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I start the helicopter queue, SCS advances to Q60, because it's the next manual cue. When I action Q60, it advances to Q61 etc. But when the goto cue runs, SCS steps back to Q60 (aka the next manual queue after Q50), so instead of actioning Q61 etc. the next time I'd push my 'go' Key, Q60 instead of Q61 etc. would run.

Of course I could click on the right queue but that marks the auto queues 'completed' so the level change loop is interrupted. I hope I made myself clear.

bye
einhirn

[Mike Daniell]

Sorry for the delay in replying - this seems to have slipped through without my noticing it.

I fairly simple enhancement I could implement in SCS 11 would be to add a checkbox to the 'Go To Cue' cue type for 'Do not change Next Manual Cue'.

[Mike Daniell]

I've been trying to get this mod working but it's not as simple a change as I thought it would be. This is mainly because SCS resets the 'next manual cue' while passing through the cues that were looped back to.

I'm considering an alternative approach and that is to implement Boswell's suggestion of Subroutines.

[einhirn]

*Bump*

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but are you still considering "GoSub" or "Call" queues? It could be a checkbox "return here afterwards" in the "GoTo"-Queue screen... Subroutines could then be implemented as subqueues...

[Mike Daniell]

I've put this on my list of enhancements to be worked on next - after the implementation of the new video package. That will ensure it doesn't keep getting forgotten.

[Mike Daniell]

'Callable Cues' and associated 'Call Cue' implemented in SCS 11.4.0.