Help! - Creating text triggers

Stored_Leech · Civilian **Joined**: 30 May 2007 **Location**: Cheltenham

Hey, i've been creating an alternative single player campaign (by over-writing the nod one), and i want to use text triggers to show the objectives. My map has no modded units (yet), and i can't seem to get the triggers to work.

ive tried using the event "elapsed time" and set it to 1 second but i get no result. i used the text's that were both in the list and tried creating my own texts.

Any help would be appreciated...or maybe a tutorial? thanks! Smile

Styledatol · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject:

lol
Had exactly the same problem about a week ago.
I still can't figure out how to solve it, adding new text triggers or changing existant ones doesn't seem to work. Makes me wonder what use is to the tutorial ini file. I knew a guy who did change the text triggers ones, but god knows where he is now.
Whether its a hardcoded thing, or jsut a dumb mistake of ours, I'll PM you if I find anything.

Ixith · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject:

i know for a fact that changing text triggers is possible as iv done it myself. yes it requires the tutorial.ini . It may also require you to have a fixed version of the FSData.ini as i think the text action is one of the ones that is corrupt/not working in the original FSData.ini.

but as for making your own i suggest just editing the ones in the tutorial.ini to what you want it to say. but make sure you follow the guidelines at the top about the resolution sizes for the amount of text per line Wink

heres a link to the fixed FSData.ini by TitanMarkII. Go Here
I know its sending you to a tutorial thread at tibweb. just go to the bottom of the first post and you will see a dl for the fix. Extract the files from the fix and put them in your finalsun folder and it will work Wink

have fun.

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Crash · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it is possible to change text triggers. Just add a new number to the tutorial.ini file.

Just start where the last text is and add a new number after like

500=Titans are en route
501=For Kane!!!!
502=Questions answered, mission accomplished

And then doing what Ixith said, should make everything work perfectly Smile

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

In the action or whatever trigger when you use add text trigger I think it goes like this.

Example:

500=Kill the infidels!!

In FS you would make the action Text Trigger and the parameter / variable 500. Not 500=Kill the infidels, if I am right all it wants to read is the number. Its been ages since I did this but I have had it working with no trouble whatsoever.

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Stored_Leech · Civilian **Joined**: 30 May 2007 **Location**: Cheltenham

Cheers guys!
Thanks for the help and the fixed file Smile

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