LoadingScreen (how-to)

[2nd ranger 282]

No, I'm talking about the messages on the loading screens, not the images themselves. At the bottom they usually have things like "Hint: Weapons stored in SUVs can be carried over to the next mission". It's not the 'onLoadMission' text.

edit:

A friend got it to work by putting this in his description

class CfgLoadingTexts
{
priority = 10;
	titles[] = {

	"Message1",
       "Message2",
       "Message3"

	};
};

Messages are selected randomly but in the editor at least they dont show up half the time.

Edited November 5, 2011 by 2nd Ranger

[wiggum2 31]

I think you mean this:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Loading_Screens#Texts

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Loading_Screens

class CfgLoadingTexts
{
//--- Delay between texts are swapped (by default same as delay for images)
refreshDelay = 20;

//--- Loading text container
class ThrottleBasic
{
	//--- Hint title
	title = $STR_HSIM_CfgLoadingTexts_ThrottleBasic_0;

	//--- Lines of text (<br /> will be placed inbetween them)
	text[] = {
		$STR_HSIM_CfgLoadingTexts_ThrottleBasic_1,
		$STR_HSIM_CfgLoadingTexts_ThrottleBasic_2,
		$STR_HSIM_CfgLoadingTexts_ThrottleBasic_3
	};

	//--- Optional format params applied to all text lines (put here technical text to avoid its localization)
	params[] = {
		"<img image='hsim\ui_h\data\igui\ico_cpt_thtl_OFF_ca.paa' size='1.5' />",  
		"<img image='hsim\ui_h\data\igui\ico_cpt_thtl_IDL_ca.paa' size='1.5' />",
		"<img image='hsim\ui_h\data\igui\ico_cpt_thtl_ON_ca.paa' size='1.5' />"
	};

	//--- Enable diary record (e.g. text is atimatically added to 'Hints' category in notes)
	isDiary = 1;
};
};

But i believe it only works in Take On Helicopters...

Anyway, i tried it like 2nd Ranger posted and it never worked.

Anyone knows hot to get the hints on the loading screens like in PMC working ?

[2nd ranger 282]

No, it works in Arma 2 if you put that in your description. But like I said, in the editor it doesn't work every time. You need to preview it several times before it shows up. Changing the priority doesn't seem to help.

EDIT: also, annoyingly, it seems like changes you make to the messages are not detected unless you exit the editor.

Edited November 7, 2011 by 2nd Ranger

[wiggum2 31]

I saved my mission as .pbo and tried it many times but never saw a hint...

Thats my description.ext:

onloadmission="TEST";
loadScreen = "img\loading.jpg";

class CfgLoadingTexts
{
priority = 100;
	titles[] = {

	"Message1",
       "Message2",
       "Message3"

	};
};

[2nd ranger 282]

In the init file, try this

startloadingscreen ["","RscDisplayLoadCustom"];

*mission stuff*

endLoadingScreen;

EDIT: nope. When I did that, I was getting a hint every time. But the next day it doesn't work again.

Edited November 8, 2011 by 2nd Ranger