How do I set up livesplit so that after each portion of a game (which will be followed by un-timed cutscene and menu portions) the timer pauses rather than moving on to the next segment?
Well it depends. If your game is a PC game, look into if there is an auto splitter for the game to control that kinda stuff. If it’s a console game, you have to manually pause it and unpause it when you need.
The game I am playing is relatively obscure for speedrunning SWBF2. I don't believe any such autosplitter files have been released. This is on pc. I just want a livesplit setting where when I press "next run" it automatically pauses the timer as well.
If you try to put your livesplit hotkeys so that if you press the Start/Split hotkey & the Pause hotkey (let's say you both put them to "Numpad 3"), you would start a run like normally. You split, it does split. It does not pause.
So using a method like that would not be possible. Another thing you could do is, right click Livesplit, Edit Layout, and add the Detailled Timer. Save layout, thenput both hotkeys to two keys next to each other (let's say Numpad 1 for splitting and Numpad 2 for pausing). Also, disable Double Tap Prevention.
When you want to split and right after the timer shouldn't be running, what you can do is press Numpad 1 and then right after Numpad 2. You would see that you split and then pause the timer, you'll get around 0.05 - 0.15 which you can see on livesplit. You could then check back after a PB and remove the loading time afterwords, which, depending on the length of the game, will likely be a result of one to two seconds removed off of the final time.
This isn't a very practical option but if you don't know how to make an autosplitter yourself you don't have much of a choice ! I don't have much experience making autosplitters so I can't really help with that.
Good luck with your future speedruns ! Oh, and welcome to speedrun.com ! ^-^
Hey thanks a ton. At least I know it isn't just my unfamiliarity that is making this difficult :/ What about making an autosplitter myself? Anyone got a link to some resources for that?
This is a good start: https://github.com/LiveSplit/LiveSplit/blob/master/Documentation/Auto-Splitters.md
For other people seeing this thread, here's an already-built auto splitter that works based off of image detection: