Need More Text Space

PaladinHeart · Post by **PaladinHeart** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:14 am

Im having trouble with the .txt file that you use with the missions. My first town's file is too big or something. Is there a limit on how much txt you can have available for use with your speech files? Perhaps im doing something wrong? Or maybe bunkers can't have as much txt?

I would appreciate any help. Sorry if this was answered earlier. I can't remember any solution.

RE: Basically some of my speech options are not showing up. Any suggestions? Hmm.. Maybe too many notes.

RE: Im at a total loss. I can't figure it out. And I can't get by with 10 text boxes a map :-/

RE: OOPS! That's what I get for not working on maps in a long time.. although I made this mistake in the past. I didn't put mission notations on the speech nodes. Found the answer in another topic:

http://jj86.nma-fallout.com/EDITOR_READ ... elsection8

Hope this works. I had stuff like

GrunkSay = { Hi! }

When it should be?

B01_Grunk_001 = { Hi! }

Not sure but I think the first three letters is what's important?

RE: Still no luck... Help?

PaladinHeart · Post by **PaladinHeart** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:15 am

OK I give up. Can someone explain to my why all the speech lines are not showing up in the Speech thingy? It shows like 15 lines and then the campaign lines. There should be 30 or even more lines that I have done fot the mission. Is it because I used a bunker?

Anyone know of a solution? This is just silly..

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:54 am

I've heard that there is a limit to how large a speech file can be, but even on my maps -- and I do so love my NPCs to be verbose -- I've never run into problems.

The thing I would check if I were you is to make sure that you have everything correctly enclosed in braces. A missing brace will invalidate lines, that's for sure. One thing you be especially careful of is accidentally using parenthesis instead of a brace somewhere. ("Um...not that I've every done what m'self...")

Other than that, I really don't know what to tell you. In my experience w/formatting lines I've only come across one thing that needs to follow the format MXX_YYYY_X00, and that's holodisks. Everything else worked just fine even when the format wasn't followed.

OTB

PS You might want to check to make sure that you've assigned the proper speech file to the map and that you're not looking in the wrong file. I know it sounds stupid, but stupid mistakes are the hardest to find and fix.

PaladinHeart · Post by **PaladinHeart** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:58 am

You're probably right and its a stupid mistake. I'll double check the braces and file (already checked the file and was pretty sure about the braces). Its very odd.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:01 pm

Make sure there are no spaces in your node names:

Grunksay, or Grunk_Say are good.

Grunk Say is bad.

I never ran across any limitations, if there are some make sure that you separate the speech from the item descriptions in different files. That may help.

PaladinHeart · Post by **PaladinHeart** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:24 pm

You're right. I was using spaces (Doh!). I noticed it and tright taking out the spaces this morning and it seemed to fix everything.