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| − | Mission screens | + | Mission screens started off as screens which allow the player to interface with NPCs in a mission.oxp but also allow other sorts of "communication" as in the conversation overheard in the bar in the [[Hints OXP]]. |
| − | They can have backdrops, changes in text and allow | + | They can have backdrops, changes in text and allow choices for the player. |
The text can be placed in a descriptions.plist, details about it in a script.js | The text can be placed in a descriptions.plist, details about it in a script.js | ||
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In XML: | In XML: | ||
\n Inserts a hard Enter. | \n Inserts a hard Enter. | ||
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| + | :See [[Missiontext.plist]] for more complexity (''eg'' random names, naming current system ''etc'') | ||
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:Character '31' (hex:1F, octal:037) is a narrow 'hair-space'. Custom font OXPs should ensure that this character is blank and has the same narrow width as the core font definition, as it is used to allow an equivalent to 'tab stops' in mission text. | :Character '31' (hex:1F, octal:037) is a narrow 'hair-space'. Custom font OXPs should ensure that this character is blank and has the same narrow width as the core font definition, as it is used to allow an equivalent to 'tab stops' in mission text. | ||
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== Colour == | == Colour == | ||
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or you can use ''overlay'' instead of ''background'' (less conflicts with other oxp's such as XenonUI which also specify a background) | or you can use ''overlay'' instead of ''background'' (less conflicts with other oxp's such as XenonUI which also specify a background) | ||
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| + | == Svengali's Library & CCL == | ||
| + | These two oxp's allow for more complex interractions. See the deprecated [[CCL]]'s never used [[Cutscene]], as well as the current [[Library OXP]]'s "Music" and "Demos". | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=276448#p276448 Creating a mission screen] for textual messages | *[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=276448#p276448 Creating a mission screen] for textual messages | ||
*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=283395#p283395 Changing text colour] | *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=283395#p283395 Changing text colour] | ||
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[[Category:Oolite scripting]] | [[Category:Oolite scripting]] | ||
Revision as of 08:18, 3 April 2022
Please note: This Page is a WIP aimed at dumb pilots like myself!.
Mission screens started off as screens which allow the player to interface with NPCs in a mission.oxp but also allow other sorts of "communication" as in the conversation overheard in the bar in the Hints OXP.
They can have backdrops, changes in text and allow choices for the player.
The text can be placed in a descriptions.plist, details about it in a script.js
Text
- Several spacial characters are used in determining the layout of the text, just as in Wiki.
\" Enables the use of colons. \\n Insert a hard Enter.
In XML:
\n Inserts a hard Enter.
- See Missiontext.plist for more complexity (eg random names, naming current system etc)
- Character '31' (hex:1F, octal:037) is a narrow 'hair-space'. Custom font OXPs should ensure that this character is blank and has the same narrow width as the core font definition, as it is used to allow an equivalent to 'tab stops' in mission text.
Colour
- Choices can be non-yellow (have a look at the various contracts interfaces in 1.77) but there is a more fundamental limitation of the current UI code that all text on a particular line has to be the same colour. Cim (2013)
Backdrop
- This is managed from within the script.js file:
background: ""the_file_name_of_the_image_you_want_to_display_must_be_in_the_images_folder.png",
or you can use overlay instead of background (less conflicts with other oxp's such as XenonUI which also specify a background)
Svengali's Library & CCL
These two oxp's allow for more complex interractions. See the deprecated CCL's never used Cutscene, as well as the current Library OXP's "Music" and "Demos".
Links
- Creating a mission screen for textual messages
- Changing text colour
