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The VN_Skip command seeks the playback of one or more Actors' busts to another position, without starting or pausing it. The new position stays within the current loop.
Keys
Every key also accepts a ¢ expression instead of a fixed value, unless its description says otherwise. See CandyRef Expressions.
Actors
Description:
The Actors the command acts on, each on a bust of the VN Scene. Each key is an Actor, and its value is a Dictionary of settings for that Actor (see below), or an empty Dictionary for none. List every Actor by name: there is no shorthand for all Actors. The Engine reports an entry it can't find and skips it, without affecting the others.
Values:
• Actor Reference: A key of the actors dictionary, such as Alice.
• °role: The Actor currently assigned to that Role, such as °guard.
Actor Settings
Each Actor in Actors accepts the following keys.
Time
Description:
The position playback seeks to within the current loop. A paused or held entry seeks to the new position without starting.
Values:
• Number of seconds or timestamp: An absolute position, such as 4.5 or 01:30.
• +N / -N: Seek forward or backward by N seconds, or by a timestamp, such as +5.
• f=N: Frame N, counted at FPS when the media has no frames of its own.
• f+N / f-N: Seek forward or backward by N frames from the current frame, counted at FPS when the media has no frames of its own. Frames are counted rather than converted to a time, so the result stays exact when frames aren't evenly spaced.
• 0 or empty: The start.
FPS
Description:
The frame rate at which f= values are counted, for media without a frame rate of its own.
Values:
• Frames per second: Such as 12.
• Empty: The media's own frame rate, otherwise the default frame rate.
Take_Hold
Description:
Whether this command takes hold of the bust scene, if it is Public. While an Engine holds it, its Public Mode determines which commands other Engines may send it: none (Exclusive), only the commands it lists (Semi-Exclusive), or any (Free). The hold applies to the whole scene, and lasts until the holding Engine's Dialogue ends. Setting Take_Hold on any Actor of the Line applies it to the whole scene.
Values:
• Empty: The bust scene decides, from its own list of commands that take hold.
• 1: Take hold, even if the bust scene doesn't list this command.
• -1: Never take hold.