text and voice trigger

[mark 1]

I have been struggling through making a mission its quite fun learning all the stuff but have hit a brick wal with something. How can i get text to apear ont he scrren as if it was sent by a radio like from a HQ unit.

I can get text on the screen with a trigger like plain text int he centre of the screen but not on a radio like you get in the offical missions.

Sure its really simple but googled it but havent found a guide for this prob.

Cheers in advance.

[kylania 568]

You can use the sideChat command to do that. The following code would result in:

CROSSROAD: THIS WILL APPEAR IN BLUE SIDECHAT!

[WEST,"HQ"] sideChat "This will appear in blue sideChat!"

You can expand on this as well. To add sound to it, call the messages from a Trigger. Inside the trigger click on Effects and from the Anonymous: drop down choose Radio noise 1 or Radio noise 2. Both will result in an "open mic" radio sound, 2 being slightly louder than 1.

If you wanted to customize the name the text comes from, instead of the default CROSSROAD, place a unit somewhere on the map where he's completely out of the AO. Name the unit something like HQGUY and in his init file put:

this setGroupID ["HQ"];

Then when you have a Trigger with an On Act: of this:

HQGUY sideChat "That's a good job!"

It will display as: HQ 1: THAT'S A GOOD JOB!

Edited July 8, 2010 by kylania

[Roe-31stMEU- 10]

@Kylania:

Would that also work if I named an object instead of a unit? Like say I used the Stryker HQ object?

[kylania 568]

Has to be a unit, not an object. If you placed a crewed Stryker CV it would work.

An empty one would work too kind of, if it had a driver. The problem is it would be said as the driver, not the unit you wanted.

[Roe-31stMEU- 10]

Alright, not a problem anyway, we can make believe it was the HQ Stryker lol thanks

[mark 1]

cheers for the help :-)

If i wanted to play an MP3 of my voice sayhing an order that also activated instea dof playing the radio noise is that easy to do?

Edited July 9, 2010 by 96mgb