Obsidian Conflict Forums

How do you make them screen messages like in the Bunker map, for example the message "Stay low to avoid security cameras".

I cant seem to find out how to do that, any help would be great.

game_text

game_text_quick is a more simple ent. All you need to input is a msg to it and it shows it.

Thanks, i've got it working now, It should help me make it so people can find their way around my map.

Do you have any screenshots of your map?

Yeah, if you have, you should post them in the WIP mapping forum.

I got an additional question: How do I make the text smaller and how do I change line? I want ot have messages more like those in metastasis.

I don't know how to make it smaller off the top of my head, but to change lines the newline character '\n' should work. Don't use the quotation marks when using it, and you can just drop it right in the middle of the line without spaces.

Hyperjag3 wrote:I don't know how to make it smaller off the top of my head, but to change lines the newline character '\n' should work. Don't use the quotation marks when using it, and you can just drop it right in the middle of the line without spaces.

Nope, doesn't work. I've tried it before, but hammer automatically changes it into /n.

I made two seperate ents for freezingpoing...
But the newline idea sounds good, havnt tried it myself.

I can post a few pictures, but i'll need to change a few textures first because at the moment its just for personal use until its finished. So i've used 2 textures from Sin Episodes or is it alright to post pictures of it using them textures?

Pictures are fine, releasing is another story.

IGNORE THIS, NO LONGER NEEDED!

Oniyuri wrote:

Hyperjag3 wrote:I don't know how to make it smaller off the top of my head, but to change lines the newline character '\n' should work. Don't use the quotation marks when using it, and you can just drop it right in the middle of the line without spaces.

Nope, doesn't work. I've tried it before, but hammer automatically changes it into /n.

Sorry to bump such an old thread, Ok I'm using game_text all works fine apart from the /n part ( for a new line) and I'm using it with out quotes or spaces i.e
help me/nplease

I read somewhere that the maximum per line is 60 characters and the maximum per message is 127 characters! Iwill check this tonight. Anyone else got/come across this problem? and did reducing the amount of characters work?

regards fug

ok, I've posted here in case others come here and read this...
I found this on the synergy forums and decided to take a look.
If you want to add new lines to text and find that /n dosen't work, try opening the sdk_hints map and look at the message written in the text entity.
you'll notice where they want the lines break they have used a small square symbol (similar to this [] but actually one character). I can't paste it here as I have no idea how to recreate this symbol from my keyboard.
The good news is it's possible to copy the symbol in hammer and paste into your map's text entities in hammer! so no more multiple entities! for a group of sentances!

fug4life wrote:ok, I've posted here in case others come here and read this...
I found this on the synergy forums and decided to take a look.
If you want to add new lines to text and find that /n dosen't work, try opening the sdk_hints map and look at the message written in the text entity.
you'll notice where they want the lines break they have used a small square symbol (similar to this [] but actually one character). I can't paste it here as I have no idea how to recreate this symbol from my keyboard.
The good news is it's possible to copy the symbol in hammer and paste into your map's text entities in hammer! so no more multiple entities! for a group of sentances!

It must be a key that represents an <Enter> key in some way. haven't seen this before.