Dialog via custom Chat

[Whisperdrive 2]

I am setting up a zeus mission where my players will "overhear" enemy communication coming from a placed radio. So far, I have a HQ sidechat going on between the players and HQ (which shows up in blue obviously) and so I thought to distinguish rebel communication via a different text colour..which brings me to customChat.

into my init.sqf I placed:

_index = radioChannelCreate [[0.96, 0.34, 0.13, 0.8], "Rebel Comms", "%UNIT_NAME", [P1, P2, R1, R2]];

P1 and P2 are my players and R1 and R2 are the two rebel officers (for testing purposes)

I also created a dialogue.sqf:

R1 customChat [1,"Hey, how's it going?" ];
sleep 4;

R2 customChat [1,"Yeah, I'm alright!" ];
sleep 3;

 
Then I setup a player activated trigger:

null = execVM "dialogue.sqf";

But.....when I step into the trigger area, nothing happens! I know the trigger does activate but I can't get my dialogue to appear on screen. Anyone have any ideas?

[Maff 251]

Weird. I couldn't get customChat to display either.

radioChannelCreate worked but I couldn't return the channel ID.

 

Maybe not exactly what you were after, but here are a couple of alternatives:

BIS_fnc_showSubtitle

BIS_fnc_EXP_camp_playSubtitles

 

 

 

 

[Larrow 2823]

5 hours ago, Whisperdrive said:

into my init.sqf I placed:

_index = radioChannelCreate [[0.96, 0.34, 0.13, 0.8], "Rebel Comms", "%UNIT_NAME", [P1, P2, R1, R2]];

Doing it in the init.sqf means server plus all joining clients try to create the channel. Just put it in initServer.sqf and broadcast the channel ID.

As per the Biki...

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The radio channel needs to be created on the server before hand, with radioChannelCreate command.

 

//initServer.sqf

missionNamespace setVariable[ "RebelComsChan", radioChannelCreate [[0.96, 0.34, 0.13, 0.8], "Rebel Comms", "%UNIT_NAME", [P1, P2, R1, R2]], true ];

//dialogue.sqf

_rebelComsChan = missionNamespace getVariable[ "RebelComsChan", -1 ];

if ( _rebelComsChan > -1 ) then {
	
	R1 customChat [1,"Hey, how's it going?" ];
	sleep 4;
	
	R2 customChat [1,"Yeah, I'm alright!" ];
	sleep 3;
}else{
	"Rebel Coms Channel missing" call BIS_fnc_error;
};

Tested, works fine for me.

[Whisperdrive 2]

@Larrow Ok that makes sense. I am sure the code is fine but I just keep getting a generic error when I test it in the editor. Apparently there is an error in the dialogue.sqf  (Error Invalid number in expression) in line 1

I mean, I could be very slowly losing my mind but I don't see what it causing this error. Eitherway I will keep testing. Thanks for the help!

 

 

[Larrow 2823]

7 minutes ago, Whisperdrive said:

Apparently there is an error in the dialogue.sqf  (Error Invalid number in expression)

Most likely the forum bug that adds invisible characters when posting/copying code blocks.

HERE is my test mission.

[Whisperdrive 2]

@Larrow Heya, so yeah the error from before has gone but..I have been testing this for the last 40 mins now and I can't seem to get the custom chat to appear. I replaced my mission folder with your 3 files and still couldn't get it to work. The trigger definitely activates (I put a hint in there to test and I do see the hint when I run the mission) but for whatever reason I can't get the chat to appear on the screen. I am quite stumped at this point 🤔