Text Question Created 20 years ago2004-08-29 19:14:58 UTC by Mattous

Hi, I'm working on my first map and need to know how to make it so when you walk into a room a text message appears on the screen... Probably really simple but can you help me out?

Love the site btw it's awesome, taught me everything I needed to know so far... except this

This is far too complex for what I want too do... I simply just want someone to walk into the room and have say "you have found..." Is this the only way too do this?

Take a look at the game_text entity. That should serve your needs.

OK I've looked in the entity guide and I understand how to get it to work now... but when I go to select game_text from the list of entities it isn't there???

What editor are you using?

Hammer 3.5... with zoners compile tools

Sounds your fgd file might be messed up. Did you replace your halflife.fgd file? Even so, you could download it again and replace it.

The fgd is what defines what pops up in your menus.

Another quick check is to open halflife.fgd in Notepad and search for "game_text". It should show up in a line like:

@PointClass base(Targetname, Target) = game_text : "HUD Text Message"

Another thought. game_text is a point-based entity. You don't tie it to anything, you just plop the entity somewhere in your map.

If you're looking for it in the 'Tie to entity' entities list, it won't be there.

hmm the way i do it is get game_text place it anywhere then make a wall and assign it to trigger_once then i target that to the name of the game text and voila it works seems simple when u get the hamg of it

it all seems simple once you realise that a lot of things have to triggered

everything around you in maps are triggered ho ho

habboi

Ok I've updated the hl fgd and it's still not showing up... Checked the file in wordpad and the txt you mentioned is in both of them... I'm not using the tile to entity button, just using the entity tool to create it... it's not just that ent that is missing from the list none of the game_ ent's are there...

Using the FGD from collective.valve-erc.com?

Yes

Baffling. Up-to-date Hammer?

3.5 yes...

what u need is a game_text now if you dont hav that then you must need to redo the fgd and setup again

game_text is not available in TFC. I'll bet you're editing a TFC map, right?

If not, give us a bit more time. Let us know either way, hmm?

Got it in one! I am making a tfc map! How do I do get this to work?

game_* entities certainly weren't intended to be used in TFC because they're missing from tfc15f.fgd (which you should be using). So I'm not sure whether you can or should try to get them to work. Maybe someone with a little more TFC mapping experience can help out.

Map-based screen messages aren't, in general, part of the TFC experience anyway.

BTW, the TFC entity list is not directly linked (hint, hint) but here it is:

http://cariad.co.za/twhl/entitycats.php?game=3

try googling for TFmapped?

yeah I've got tfmapped bookmarked... I know that it's doable cos it's in a lot of fun style maps aspecially the escape ones... I'll head over there and see what they can tell me. Thx guys, I'm sure I'll be back!