OA AAN Overlay

[IndeedPete 1038]

Hi there,

i'm just looking at the first campaign mission to figure out how to create that news overlay from the cutscene. It seems a little complex and i was wondering if someone already found out how to get it working with own text etc. If you have something please share! ;)

[CarlGustaffa 4]

We found several builtin resources to use by placing the functions module and and checking the help via:

call bis_fnc_help.

Check the functions and you should find out how to use these new resources, incl that AAN thingy.

Sorry, not able to help out more atm.

[IndeedPete 1038]

Yap, i just ran into that. I gonna try it out later.

[IndeedPete 1038]

Ok, i got it working:

To use it, just place the "functions" module and use these 3 lines of code:

_header = parsetext "<t size='2.3'>US Withdrawal From Takistan</t><br />President Taylor visits President Hamir and the remaining US forces.";
_line = parsetext "Dow Jones deacreasing. - 80% of the 160.000 US soldiers already left Takistan. Complete withdrawal by the end of this week. - First takistani president: Mahmud Hamir won the election with 83% of the votes. - Total costs of Operation Arrowhead: 23.160.000.000 USD, 6.523 soldiers and 7.241 civilians. - Invasion of naked women in Los Angeles, CA: more than 500.000 naked chicks stormed the Walk Of Fame and blocked it for more than 2 hours. - Tea market still increasing";
nul = [_header,_line] spawn BIS_fnc_AAN;

Have fun! ;)

Edited July 5, 2010 by IndeedPete

[Specialist 10]

Thanks alot for this!

[Mr. Charles 22]

Fix the image size plz, besides that: awesome =)

[wiggum2 31]

Great, thanks for the Script !

[santafee 10]

great stuff! but...where to put the code in?

[imutep 0]

great stuff! but...where to put the code in?

There where you want the AAN Overlay in your scene.

Example...

_camera camPrepareTarget [-11717.56,-95750.96,7.71]
_camera camPreparePos [6827.74,2514.35,5.82]
_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700
_camera camCommitPrepared 0
@camCommitted _camera

_header = parsetext "<t size='2.3'>Gruss an Bohemia Interactive</t><br />Dank der AAN Function sind nun AAN Nachrichten einblendbar.";
_line = parsetext " Mir war einfach nur langweilig! Drum dachte ich mir ich versuche mal eine AAN News zu schreiben bevor ich in den Urlaub gehe. Da ist die News...und ich geh jetzt in den Urlaub!. Tschüss!";
nul = [_header,_line] spawn BIS_fnc_AAN;

[santafee 10]

i just used the wrong order to exec the sqf, working now ..thanks anyways!

[IndeedPete 1038]

Fix the image size plz, besides that: awesome =)

What's wrong with the picture?^^ That's my resolution...

[CarlGustaffa 4]

I think he is referring to the forum rules, which I think you may have missed ;) If you don't fix, well, lets just say images of that "size" have a tendency to mysteriously disappear :D And, you've been registered for over a year so you should know what I'm talking about.

[IndeedPete 1038]

Um, ok. I didn't notice that. :confused: Anyway, i changed it.:cool:

[wiggum2 31]

Anyone knows how to get these look of the AAN Overlay ?

http://www.armedassault.info/ftp/pics/news/pics1/AAN_News_Takistan_01.jpg

...would be cool to have these "Breaking News" !

[Alwarren 2766]

Also interesting:

["Text Line 1", "Text Line 1", "Text Line 1"] call BIS_fnc_infoText;

I think it can only handle three short text lines, but it's a nice effect :)

[IndeedPete 1038]

Yes, but i would appreciate a function wich allows more than 3 lines. :rolleyes: Anyways, it's truly a nice effect...

[Alwarren 2766]

Yes, but i would appreciate a function wich allows more than 3 lines. :rolleyes: Anyways, it's truly a nice effect...

Yeah, especially since the three lines of text need to be pretty short too. I tried to insert it into one mission I had made, but "September 12th, 2014 9:30 local time" was already too long, had to ditch the "local time" and shorten "September" to "Sep".

Still the effect looks cool :)

[gossamersolid 155]

Is it possible to put variables in the AAN news overlay?

As in say I have

_guy = "Guy's Name";

can I make it say on one line This guy: _guy is a winrar.

I looked up parsetext on the wiki and I didn't see anything.

[IndeedPete 1038]

Hm, i don't know but why don't you just try it?^^

[gossamersolid 155]

Hm, i don't know but why don't you just try it?^^

Pretty lazy, mostly.

[Deadfast 43]

Pretty lazy, mostly.

Not a good attitude.

You will need to use format.

[gossamersolid 155]

Not a good attitude.

You will need to use format.

I was joking dude :)

I will try it later, was working on other stuff first.

The overlay looks sweet though.

[Richtoffen 10]

silly question maybe, but how do i turn off the darn thing :D i have a cutscene and when it ends i want the news thingy to dissapear but it just stays there as i run around zargabad =(

[imutep 0]

2999 cuttext ["","plain"];
3000 cuttext ["","plain"];

3000 is for the AAN news Overlay. But 2999...i don't know exactly. Seen in the aanTV.sqf at first mission intro.

Edited July 7, 2010 by Imutep

[CarlGustaffa 4]

The 3000 number just defines the layer; used to define if things show up in front of others or behind others.

Hmm, maybe it actually works? Don't know actually :)