Scenery Sprite Item Description Tip

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 9:03 am

Hopefully I'm not "Johnny Come Lately" on this one and the rest of you have already figured this out, but...

I've been playing around with the names of Scenery Sprites and have been unsatisfied with something. Namely, that you apparently couldn't control how the name displayed, but rather had to rely on whatever rules governed the displaying of text for item names. Inserting a name like the following:

name_M01_streetSign = {The Sign Reads:
"Physical Training Has Been Cancelled Due to Lack of Interest."}

This resulted in a dislplay like this when you moved your mouse over the sign:

The Sign Reads: "Physical Training Has Been Cancelled Due to Lack of Interest."

Then I remembered that the "special character \n\n" prevented the display from deleting the end of line character, and so I tried something like this:

name_M69_brothelSign = {The Sign Reads:\n\n
"The Stanky Hole\n\n
Est. 2194\n\n
By Yo Mama"\n\n}

The result for this method was:

The Sign Reads:
"The Stanky Hole
Est. 2194
By Yo Mama"

The lines will appear to have more space between them, though. Roughly like having line spacing set to 1.5 instead of 1.

Cheers,

OTB

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 9:54 am

Yep, you can\n
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use it in\n
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speech nodes too!

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 10:04 am

Well, OTB, I didn't know the \n\n thing works in that way, so don't feel bad

endocore · Post by **endocore** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 12:16 pm

Did you ever have any more luck, OTB, in trying to change the color of an entity's descriptive text?

Endocore

Section8 · Post by **Section8** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 12:44 pm

OTB: Try it with a single "\n" It's the special character for carriage return. If we ever double them up, it was for extra lines in the formatting.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 8:39 pm

Yep or add more /n for added spacing or a new paragraph. Gareth, as long as we have you on the horn here - any reply to the email I sent you a month ago about who I can talk to at MF about releasing the sprite editors or tile editors? I would like some email addresses if you can give them to me so we can get some answers.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 9:27 pm

Jimmyjay86 wrote:Yep, you can...use it in...speech nodes too!

Yes, I knew about that part. Although I remembered the line from the sacredReadMe incorrectly. ]ed[ wrote:

 Each node is auto wrapping, and will delete any end-of-line characters it finds. To add in an end-of-line use the special text: \n

But I've seen it so many times as "\n\n" in the speech files that I forgot about simply using one "\n".

endocore wrote:Did you ever have any more luck, OTB, in trying to change the color of an entity's descriptive text?

No, I'd forgotten about it, actually. Thanks for reminding me!

Section8 wrote:OTB: Try it with a single "\n" It's the special character for carriage return. If we ever double them up, it was for extra lines in the formatting.

See above. :oops:

Memory really isn't what it used to be...

Thanks for getting me straightened out, folks.

OTB

Section8 · Post by **Section8** » Sat Apr 27, 2002 12:27 pm

JimmyJay: There are problems when it comes to "who to talk to" about such things. On the interplay side of things, 14 degrees east is defunct and it's staff elsewhere, and on our side of things, the people who had contact with Interplay are pretty much gone. Most of the remaining Tactics team members are artists. That means any kind of decision is to be made outside of the dev team, and I'm not really sure where that responsibility lies.