Scripting Text at Trigger including Time and Profile Names

[combataz 3]

Hey all. I'm trying to setup a trigger that displays text at the bottom left of the screen, with three strings, the current time, and the profile name of the player playing (It is for multiplayer, but from what I understand the profileName will work in mp?). How would I go about doing this?

[gokitty1199 225]

you can simply call a function from the trigger to run on the clients. how do you want it called exactly and for who do you want it to be shown to?

heres an example of what i mean

BUF_DisplayText =
{
	_profileName = profileName;
	systemChat format["Time: %1   ProfileName: %2", time, _profileName];
};

 

[combataz 3]

1 minute ago, gokitty1199 said:

you can simply call a function from the trigger to run on the clients. how do you want it called exactly and for who do you want it to be shown to?

 heres an example of what i mean

BUF_DisplayText =
{
	_profileName = profileName;
	systemChat format["Time: %1   ProfileName: %2", time, _profileName];
};

 

Players are on the Independent side. It'll be when a unit crosses a trigger delineating the start of the mission area. Am I able to throw strings into that function as well?

[gokitty1199 225]

29 minutes ago, combataz said:

Players are on the Independent side. It'll be when a unit crosses a trigger delineating the start of the mission area. Am I able to throw strings into that function as well?

you can put whatever you want in it. so each time a player enters the trigger you want to display text to everyone showing who entered the trigger? or do you want it to only display who entered the trigger first to everyone or what? that part is still unclear to me

[combataz 3]

6 minutes ago, gokitty1199 said:

you can put whatever you want in it. so each time a player enters the trigger you want to display text to everyone showing who entered the trigger? or do you want it to only display who entered the trigger first to everyone or what? that part is still unclear to me

Ah, sorry, apologies. I want it to be displayed to everybody. 

 

Follow up question, are transition effects a thing for something like this? A fade in, for example.

[gokitty1199 225]

1 hour ago, combataz said:

Ah, sorry, apologies. I want it to be displayed to everybody. 

 

Follow up question, are transition effects a thing for something like this? A fade in, for example.

assuming i understood you correctly, call this on the first person who enters the triggers client and it will broadcast the system chat to everyone. not with systemChat no, you would need another form of displaying the message for that(afaik)

BUF_DisplayText =
{
	_profileName = profileName;
	_str = format["Time: %1   ProfileName: %2", time, _profileName];
	_str remoteExec ["systemChat", 0, false];
};