Why aint this working

[Abyss]

hi guys and girls if there any i dont know anyway i got this intro to my mission and i thinks this is possiable i want a radio message to come up on the screen when the camera has zoomed in on a radio i have placed in the game but iv disabled the radio using "EnableRadio false" which works fine then i put a unit called dude in the game and typen in the camera script

EnableRadio true  

_cam camsettarget radio
_cam camsetrelpos [-3, 1, 1]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam
dude sidechat "bla bal bal"
~5
but this does not work any one know what i can do  

thx in advance abyss

[Oskar]

Whats the error message?

[Abyss]

there is not one the intro runs its just when  the camera looks at the radio nothing happens and it then the script carries on

[Wolf]

That's because in an intro, the black border covers over any Sidechat messages, to get it to show up, you must disable the border, I cannot remember the command, but its in the command reference guide.


Found it.

Command :  ShowCinemaBorder

 Description :  Enables/disables the black border at the top and bottom of the screen (letterbox) when  the camera view is not from the player's perspective.
 One example is you can use this in the On Activation field of a trigger which is using a camera effect at that
waypoint.

 Syntax : ShowCinemaBorder TorF

 TorF can be either true or false
 Returns :
 N/A
 Example :
 ShowCinemaBorder False

[Abyss]

O right Thanks a lot i take it you mean the command ref on this site yeah ;D

[Wolf]

I found the command again. ^^^

[Abyss]

yeah i saw lol thanks, dunno what I would do without you lot  ;D

[Abyss]

sorry but that did not work heres what i put in

EnableRadio false
titlecut [" ", "black in", 1]
_cam = "camera" camcreate [0,0,0]
_cam cameraeffect ["internal", "back"]
ShowCinemaBorder False

_cam camsettarget dude
_cam camsetrelpos [0, 1, 1.7]
_cam camcommit 0
@camcommitted _cam

~2

_cam camsettarget man4
_cam camsetrelpos [0, -1, 1]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam


_cam camsettarget man5
_cam camsetrelpos [0, -1, 1]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam


_cam camsettarget man6
_cam camsetrelpos [0, -1, 1]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam

_cam camsettarget man7
_cam camsetrelpos [0, -1, 1]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam

_cam camsettarget car
_cam camsetrelpos [5, 1, 3]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam
~5
EnableRadio true
dude sidechat "bla bla bla"
_cam camsettarget radio
_cam camsetrelpos [-3, 1, 1]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam

this is what I got so far but the radio message still does not come up i've even tryed putting dude sidechat "bla bla"
in a trigger but that dont work arrrrrrr whats wrong

[Kaliyuga]

 I've never known radio messages to show up in the intro...

but that's probably due to what Wolf mentioned.

But most people just use titletext instead for intro/outro

:cheers:

[max_killer_payne]

The borders don't actually cover up the radio. Try it create a cutscene in a mission, with the borders and then get a sidechat message to come up and it will come up over the borders. But in the intro this doesent work.

[LCD]

da thing is - dat in intro (n outros ;D) deres no player vehicle (2 check - try usin player - it wont recognize it ) - so deres no1 2 read da masgs  ;D

LCD OUT

[Abyss]

ok guys thanks i'll make the intro a cutscene instead untill the next time i'll see ya around thans again you lot ;D