Mission objective text ingame

yuri624 · Guest

I am looking for a way to let text appear during a mission like here (from GDI Mission 9):

I went through the code and couldn't find anything related.
I did find the sound that is played when that message appears. It's "TDR_SFC_BLEEP2.WAV" in the "SFX3D.MEG".
It is found twice in "AUDIO.CPP" but not referenced anywhere to be played.

Any input would be nice ^^

Nyerguds · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 11:12 am Post subject:

The original game never had this mission hints functionality (at least not on PC), so it probably purely exists on the GlyphX side. So I suggest looking through the xml / csv files to see if you can find those strings.

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yuri624 · Civilian **Joined**: 24 Aug 2021

Nyerguds wrote:

The original game never had this mission hints functionality (at least not on PC), so it probably purely exists on the GlyphX side. So I suggest looking through the xml / csv files to see if you can find those strings.

Yea I figured it wasn't in the original PC version as I can't remember those messages from back in the day.
Going through the xml /csv didn't help at all, can't find those strings there.
While searching for something else (new thread) I randomly stumbled across exactly what I was looking for:

Code:

extern void On_Message(const char* message, float timeout_seconds, long long message_id);

First the function needs to be declared in whatever file you are going to use it.

Code:

int text_id = TXT_NONE;
char const * text = "1. Find a way to sabotage GDI's power.\n2. Gain access to the old Soviet helipads.\n3. Overwhelm GDI and re-capture our radar station.";
if (text != NULL) { On_Message(text, 35.0f, text_id); }

Above code will output exactly what's shown in the screenshot.
The border will be green regardless of playing GDI or NOD. Best results are with text_id = TXT_NONE. As seen, \n produces a new line for multi-line messages. This message will stay 35 seconds.

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Nyerguds · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:53 am Post subject:

Oh, that's a nice discovery! Could be used to expand mission scripting Smile

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