All players getting a hint

[hurlothrumbo]

OK, I really should know this........
What I want to do is have a hint displayed on all players in MP games screens.  In singleplayer, yeah, simple enough hint "whatever"

But this doesnt work in multiplayer.  How do I make this a global hint?  I've searched.
I thought hints did work in MP.

[Terox]

its the same
hint "blah blah blah"

[hurlothrumbo]

Hmm.  The guy who was testign it MP said it didn't- he msut have not seen it.  Thanks

[Lykurgos]

Try hintformat "blah blah"

[Killswitch]

I thought hints did work in MP.

They do. However, the "hint" command has to be executed on all client machines (IIRC). I'm guessing you're doing the "hint" in either a script running on the server or only on one client.

Put the hint line in a trigger and have that trigger activate somehow.

That "somehow" could be all kinds of "somehows", like a vehicle entering the triggers activation area or by having the trigger wait for a public variable to become true. The latter would require you to initialize that
variable (let's call it "hintplayers") in for example the init.sqs.

Then, in a script running somewhere, preferably on the server, when the time is right, there's a

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hintplayers=true
publicVariable "hintplayers"
If you tell us a bit more about when/why the players need that hint, we can perhaps give you better advice what to do.

[hurlothrumbo]

I think the other guy just didnt see the hint, because it is in a trigger.  Thanks anyway killswitch.