Scrolltext problems.

[Olphy]

Hi.

I tell you, OFP never ceases in finding ways to piss me off. What I am trying to do it to make a scrolltext sequence using Blanco's own script. I have created a background for where my text will scroll accross (which I have labelled "Blackscreen" if it is of any relevance) into my "description.ext" file.

[Olphy]

I have then made a script which is refered to in my mission by entering:

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this exec "scrollingscript.sqs"
into my soldiers "On Activation" field.

In this script I have inserted the resource which is "Blackscreen" into my script for it to refer to.

[Olphy]

So far so good. Only when I now play flashpoint with this script implemented, I get this error message:

What am I doing wrong?

[Olphy]

It must be noted that I did a straight copy and paste from blanco's tutorial misson and configured the script to my desire and it worked. That is until I copied that into the actual mission I was making (I configured it in a tester mission you see) and then it didn't work. I copied it back into my tester mission and then that one didn't work either.

Strange...

[Olphy]

Any ideas people as this is racking my brain?  

[bedges]

jings - five consecutive posts man - that must be a record. in future, please make use of the 'modify' button to edit your previous post if it's the last in the thread and you have something to add. keeps things nice and tidy

my only thought would be that it may well be case-sensitive - the dialogue is defined as "Blackscreen" whereas looking at the error message, "blackscreen" is being asked for.

not sure if that makes a difference, but knowing flashpoint, it may well be

if that fails, zip the mission and i'll take a look.

[Blanco]

I can't test things out for ya, OFP is not installed atm.

But It could be something stupid...read the FAQ in the tutorial.

Q - I define a new sentence in the description.ext, I save and preview it in the editor and nothing is changed… why? (Or I recieve an error message, can't find...blablabla)
A - You have to reload the mission in the editor for every change you make in the description.ext, otherwise it won't take effect.

BTW: It's not my script, it's from COC. I wrote the tutorial.

PS : Dialognames are not case sensitive.
At least I didn't pay attention on it in the demo mission and it works.

[bedges]

PS : Dialog names are not case sensitive.

thanks for that info blanco sir, i shall add that to the knowledge base

[Blanco]

@ Bazzer

Problem solved?

[Olphy]

Hi Blanco.

Yea problem solved mate. I don't know what was casuing it but starting again from scratch seemed to do the trick.

Thanks for all of the help boys.