How do I make a title card before mission starts

[icecreamshampoo 1]

How do I make the beginning of a mission a black screen with the mission name that then fades into the game. Im new and dont know where to start. all tutorials are 10 years old so i joined this forum. thankyou

[mrcurry 496]

2 hours ago, icecreamshampoo said:

How do I make the beginning of a mission a black screen with the mission name that then fades into the game. Im new and dont know where to start. all tutorials are 10 years old so i joined this forum. thankyou

Multiple ways to do this but my favourite "good enough" method uses the titleText command.

 

1. Create a file called "initPlayerLocal" in your mission root folder, make it a .sqf file

 

2. In it put the following code:

private _titleString = "YourTextHere";
titleText [_titleString, "BLACK OUT", 0.01];
_titleString spawn {
   sleep 1; // Change this number to however long you wish the effect to stay before starting to fade out, recommend atleast 0.1 s
  
  titleText [_this, "BLACK IN", 1]; //Change the 1 here to however long you wish the fade in to take
};

 

Since v1.74 titleText also supports StructuredText (color, alignment, images and other fancy stuff).

If you wish to use those edit the text above by adding 2 true entries to the array of arguments for both titleText entries like so:

// First one
titleText [_titleString, "BLACK OUT", 0.01, true, true];
// Second one
titleText [_this, "BLACK IN", 1, true, true];

 

[icecreamshampoo 1]

36 minutes ago, mrcurry said:

Multiple ways to do this but my favourite "good enough" method uses the titleText command.

 

1. Create a file called "initPlayerLocal" in your mission root folder, make it a .sqf file

 

2. In it put the following code:

private _titleString = "YourTextHere";
titleText [_titleString, "BLACK OUT", 0.01];
_titleString spawn {
   sleep 1; // Change this number to however long you wish the effect to stay before starting to fade out, recommend atleast 0.1 s
  
  titleText [_this, "BLACK IN", 1]; //Change the 1 here to however long you wish the fade in to take
};

 

Since v1.74 titleText also supports StructuredText (color, alignment, images and other fancy stuff).

If you wish to use those edit the text above by adding 2 true entries to the array of arguments for both titleText entries like so:

// First one
titleText [_titleString, "BLACK OUT", 0.01, true, true];
// Second one
titleText [_this, "BLACK IN", 1, true, true];

 

ty i copied it and changed Your text here to my mission name. and sleep to 10 seconds long. hopefully it works.