Credits Not As Intended

[fin_soldier 82]

Hello,

 

I'm having some trouble with the ending credits for my psychological horror: Silent Abdera

 

The problem is that the credits only appear below cursor level, which looks weird if there's a bit longer text:

 

 

valign='top' doesn't seem to work...

 

Here's the code:

cutText ["<t size='2.5' align='center' valign='top' shadow='2' font='EtelkaMonospaceProBold'>Thanks to:<br/><br/>All audio effects from:<br/>www.freesound.org<br/><br/>All creative commons pictures from:<br/>www.wikipedia.org<br/><br/>Internet Archive Book Images<br/>(www.flickr.com)</t>", "PLAIN", 3, true, true]; 0 cutFadeOut 2;

 

Thanks in advance! :)

[Muzzleflash 111]

I think the problem is that valign only works in some containing box. You assume that cutText operate on the entire screen as that box, but I think it just creates the box with the top in the center and then the bottom whatever height your text have.

 

If you look at the example here at the bottom https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Structured_Text#SQF_Code_Examples  you can see they wrap size=1 text inside size=3 to demonstrate - that way the "box" will be at least 3 units large. Though my guess is that you cannot do that since cutText will still place the "main box" center and below. So my bet is you will need to use  https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/cutRsc or some other command.

[dyrmoon 22]

Probably the best solution in this case is:

[" <t size='1.0' align='center' shadow='2' font='EtelkaMonospaceProBold'>
Thanks to:<br/><br/>
All audio effects from:<br/>www.freesound.org<br/><br/>
All creative commons pictures from:<br/>
www.wikipedia.org<br/><br/>
Internet Archive Book Images<br/>
(www.flickr.com)
</t>",safezoneX+0.25*safezoneW,safeZoneY+0.25*safezoneH, 5, 0.5, 0] spawn BIS_fnc_dynamicText;

 

[fin_soldier 82]

Thanks for a quick responses!

 

6 hours ago, dyrmoon said:

Probably the best solution in this case is:

[" <t size='1.0' align='center' shadow='2' font='EtelkaMonospaceProBold'>
Thanks to:<br/><br/>
All audio effects from:<br/>www.freesound.org<br/><br/>
All creative commons pictures from:<br/>
www.wikipedia.org<br/><br/>
Internet Archive Book Images<br/>
(www.flickr.com)
</t>",safezoneX+0.25*safezoneW,safeZoneY+0.25*safezoneH, 5, 0.5, 0] spawn BIS_fnc_dynamicText;

  

 

This seems like something simple that mind can grasp on easily.

But it says missing ] as seen below:

 

 

 

[dyrmoon 22]

I'm sorry, it's probably because I put the code in the html quote here on the forum, but try it now:

["<t size='1.0' align='center' shadow='2' font='EtelkaMonospaceProBold'> 
Thanks to:<br/><br/> 
All audio effects from:<br/>www.freesound.org<br/><br/> 
All creative commons pictures from:<br/> 
www.wikipedia.org<br/><br/> 
Internet Archive Book Images<br/> 
(www.flickr.com) 
</t>",safezoneX+0.25*safezoneW,safeZoneY+0.25*safezoneH,5,0.5,0] spawn BIS_fnc_dynamicText;

 

Another possible way to use the code:

_Info = "Thanks to:<br/><br/>
All audio effects from:<br/>www.freesound.org<br/><br/> 
All creative commons pictures from:<br/> 
www.wikipedia.org<br/><br/> 
Internet Archive Book Images<br/>
(www.flickr.com)";
_Duration = 5; //how long it should be displayed
_Fade = 0.5; //fade time

[format ["<t size='1.0' align='center' shadow='2' font='EtelkaMonospaceProBold'>%1</t>",_Info],safezoneX+0.25*safezoneW,safeZoneY+0.25*safezoneH,_Duration,_Fade,0] spawn BIS_fnc_dynamicText;