Local chat question

[MrSanchez 243]

I can't seem to find anyone with this question... weird..

Is there some way of using arma 2's local chat (direct communication) but scripted. As I'm trying to make a briefing which I prefer not to do in sideChat as the leader is infront of his men.. there's vehicle chat, groupchat, sidechat, global chat, but no local chat?

[cuel 25]

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

[MrSanchez 243]

How am I supposed to use this? can anyone show me an example of using this, as I don't know where and how to put it in the description.ext, I don't get the radio protocol part and the kbAddTopic seems very odd to me.

I suppose it doesn't work like groupChat or sideChat?

I'm new to Arma editing yet an expert in other languages, but can anyone show me an example of usage?

[kylania 567]

Here's a demo mission showing many ways of presenting text/speech to players. Just copy it to your editor folder and preview with the single player editor.

[MrSanchez 243]

Here's a demo mission showing many ways of presenting text/speech to players. Just copy it to your editor folder and preview with the single player editor.

Quite a funny yet interesting mission you got there, awesome for determining the different text styles, as you said. I will try and find the directSay part ;)

edit: found all of it I guess, but does directSay require a speech file?

edit2: after removing kylania's sound lines, like the .ogg lines, i started the mission, and started the chat conversation and gave me an error like sound/greet.ogg not found, yet it continued with the other directSay lines perfectly as I wanted.. in local chat, how to get rid of the first error, so use directSay without a speech file?

Edited August 2, 2012 by PhonicStudios

[kylania 567]

Nope, one of the early in copter parts was directSay without a speechfile but the lips still moved. You can make the lip files with free tools from BIS.

[MrSanchez 243]

But Kylania, you did use a speechfile for that, roger.ogg i thought..

here

class ex_roger
{
	name = "ex_roger"; // Name for mission editor
	sound[] = {\sound\roger.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
	title = "This is being used by directSay so without a lip file my mouth is still moving."; // Text for radio message
};

edit: would using an empty .ogg file work? so no error.. no lip move or speech.

Edited August 2, 2012 by PhonicStudios

[kylania 567]

Ahh, that I did. You could just create an empty file for soundroger.ogg. You won't get the lip movement, but you'll get the lowercase text that's in the title ="" section of the class there.