How do I make units talk?

[Xen0tech 10]

Yo :) I'm almost done making a bitchen mission but one thing has me stumped. How do I get my units to say stuff with subtitles? Thanks in advance

[Nemorz 11]

unitName globalChat "Text here";

unitName sideChat "Text here";

Assuming you had a unit called "Muppet"

Muppet sideChat "Text here";

You can also use;

titleText ["Show this text", "PLAIN DOWN"] which displays text on the bottom part of the screen, centred.

Edited May 20, 2010 by Nemorz

[Xen0tech 10]

Awesome thanks mate.

[andromedagalaxe 10]

will this make them talk or just make the subtitles appear?

I don't know how to convert sound files and lipsynch, etc..

[Nemorz 11]

That will just do the subtitles, I've lever tried lipsynch/sound files so I can't help there.

[resistance-rat 10]

will this make them talk or just make the subtitles appear?

I don't know how to convert sound files and lipsynch, etc..

OFP Sound Lab useful for Arma 2 too.

Edited May 20, 2010 by resistance-rat

[Xen0tech 10]

Does anyone know how to space the chat a few seconds apart?

[Nemorz 11]

I'm assuming you're putting this into a script file and being called from there;

Command globalChat "Good job, now we need you to advance on the enemy position!";

sleep 10;

Soldier globalChat "Roger that command, we're taking the fight to them. Out.";

10 being the number in seconds.

[Xen0tech 10]

Sweet thanks again :)

*edit - it didn't work :( I tried putting this into an activation box of a trigger

player sideChat "Spectre do you copy?"; sleep 5; spectre sideChat "Loud and clear mate"; sleep 5; player sideChat "Okay i'm going in"; sleep 5; spectre sidechat "Roger, I got your back";

I got no error message but the text still all came up at once, any idea why?

Edited May 21, 2010 by Xen0tech

[Nemorz 11]

Sleep won't work inside Triggers, you have to create a new external script in .sqf format, and whack it in there.

Inside the trigger, you call the script via nul= [] execVM "Scriptname.sqf";

It'll perform the same duties, Triggers just don't recognize the sleep command.

[Xen0tech 10]

Nice its working :) do you know how to make it recognise names?

for example

player sideChat "Spectre do you copy?";

sleep 5;

Spectre sideChat "Loud and clear mate";

sleep 5;

player sideChat "Okay i'm going in";

sleep 5;

Spectre sidechat "Roger, I got your back";

When player talks my name shows up before the chat, but when spectre talks its just annonymous chat

[resistance-rat 10]

Identities in Description.ext. You'll make your own identity and you'll set a few parameters like: face, voice, glasses and name. Edited May 22, 2010 by resistance-rat

[Xen0tech 10]

Can you make identities for AI? I tried this and it did nothing.

class CfgIdentities

{

class spectre

{

name="Spectre";

face="Face20";

glasses="ACE_GLASSESBALAKLAVA";

speaker="Male04EN";

pitch=1.1;

};

};

Then in the unit named spectres activation box put spectre setIdentity spectre

[resistance-rat 10]

Damn! It isn't really functional with radio. I thought that it'll be useful like base identities.

---------- Post added at 14:23 ---------- Previous post was at 14:00 ----------

Ok. Use setGroupID in stead setIdentity.

[Vino3 10]

i have tried everything and i cannot get units to talk... i have tried everything in this thread more than once but i get nothing. No error, just no radio subtitles.

any ideas?

[Koni 3]

Yo :) bitchen mission

Sounds good :)

[Psyth 1]

Question

I'm using a chat sequence in an upcoming mission that I'm making, but I can't seem to get the chat or text to appear for everyone, just the player that activates the trigger. The script.sqf is as follows:

_actHad = _this select 0;
_actUsed = _this select 1;
_actID = _this select 2;

_actHad removeAction _actID;


interrogated = true;
publicVariable "interrogated";

Usef globalChat "text.";
sleep 5;
player globalChat "text.";
sleep 5;
Usef globalChat "text.";
sleep 5;
player globalChat "text.";

It's important to have it appear in globalChat instead of titletext. I just need everyone to see it and not just the activator.

Edited September 7, 2012 by Psyth

[kylania 568]

You'd need to run it on everyone's computer, since addAction is local. globalChart doesn't broadcast, just means it'll appear to that client on the globalChat channel.

What you'd do is put the chatty stuff in a section and run that script from a trigger looking checking for interrogated being set to true.