Mission Development Help: Words on Screen/ Dialogue

[Sergei Utkin 0]

Hiya!

Despite my rank on this forum, I am actually pretty well acquainted with the Arma Editor (Can't say my script skills are too good though ) as I have been playing since about late 2014. Anyways, I am trying to recreate the Original Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad in a more modern setting. Is it possible to create a sort of trigger that when you, for example, talk to an NPC, a line of dialogue appears? I am more so looking for a Mount and Blade effect w/o actual voice acting and just reading blurbs of dialogue. 

 

For the first section of dialogue, I wish for the player to interact with a UN Colonel. The Colonel will be leaning on his desk or whatever and I would have the player approach and have a section stating "Speak" and I am incoporating dialogue from the actual book. 

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[olegreyghost 14]

Welcome to the forums.

 

You can use the "hint" and/or "sideChat" commands to display the dialogue onscreen, which you can find at Scripting Commands for Arma 3

 

Cheers......

[JohnKalo 657]

It will be something like this:

 

[west, "HQ"] sideChat "I am talking to you.";

Whereas the condition of the trigger can be:

 

nameofplayer distance personwhospeaks < 5;

Answers to editing questions can be found via youtube videos or via the editing forums too.

 

[Sergei Utkin 0]

On 1/18/2018 at 9:08 AM, JohnKalo said:

It will be something like this:

 

[west, "HQ"] sideChat "I am talking to you.";

Whereas the condition of the trigger can be:

 

nameofplayer distance personwhospeaks < 5;

Answers to editing questions can be found via youtube videos or via the editing forums too.

 

Thanks for your reply! I will notify you if this works. 

[Sergei Utkin 0]

On 1/15/2018 at 9:35 PM, olegreyghost said:

Welcome to the forums.

 

You can use the "hint" and/or "sideChat" commands to display the dialogue onscreen, which you can find at Scripting Commands for Arma 3

 

Cheers......

Thanks for the help!

[yxman 90]

also wrong subforum, see https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/forum/154-arma-3-mission-editing-scripting/

[JohnKalo 657]

^^ true. It's just that many people cannot find the editing forums since there is no such section in the Main Arma 3 Forums subsection.