Pause and continue

Official docs: pixi-vn.com/ink/other-narrative-features. Requires addBaseHashtagCommands() to have run (its narration section, on by default) — see pixi-vn-ink.

When to use this skill

Use whenever a step needs to change something on screen (show an image, play a sound, edit a canvas element) without immediately also advancing to dialogue text on the very next player input, or whenever a line of dialogue and the choice menu that follows it should appear as a single beat instead of two.

# pause

After any # hashtag command runs, the engine performs a continue into the next step automatically. That's usually what you want — but it means a step that only changes the canvas/sound state, with no dialogue of its own, immediately falls through into whatever the next step shows: