Locations text

[Granfali]

How can I write over a map a location text? Example: Hill 124, Courseulles, Chapell, Red Beach, etc...

[pipfromslitherine]

There is a neat little example campaign you can download from

www.slitherine.com/files/bbc_ba/Texttemplate.zip

which show how to do exactly that

Cheers

Pip

[Granfali]

Thanks.

[Old_Warrior]

Here is a sample from the scenario script file:

FUNCTION PreBattleSetup()
{
ShowTextMarker(1, 70, 40, "IDS_LOC_PARIS", 12, "FFFFFF", 1);
}

70 40 is the tile location. 12 is the font size. 8 is usual font size but you can use 12 to emphasize this location over others on the map.

Then just enter in that string in the Text1.txt file in your <name> campaign folder.

String would look like this:

IDS_LOC_PARIS, "PARIS";

[Granfali]

More easy now. Thanks a lot OW

[GottaLove88s]

Here is a sample from the scenario script file:

FUNCTION PreBattleSetup()
{
ShowTextMarker(1, 70, 40, "IDS_LOC_PARIS", 12, "FFFFFF", 1);
}

70 40 is the tile location. 12 is the font size. 8 is usual font size but you can use 12 to emphasize this location over others on the map.

Then just enter in that string in the Text1.txt file in your <name> campaign folder.

String would look like this:

IDS_LOC_PARIS, "PARIS";

Hi OW, Please may I pick your venerable brain?

I'm trying to use your function in my Scenario.BSF...

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FUNCTION PreBattleSetup()
{
ShowTextMarker(1, 31, 16, "IDS_LOC_R2CREULLY", 12, "FFFFFF", 1);
}

With the following in text1.txt...

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IDS_LOC_R2CREULLY, "ROAD TO CREULLY",

But this text doesn't show up on the Scenario Map... Any ideas why?

I've put a VP flag at 30,17 and initially tried it there (it didn't work either) so I wondered if they might conflict and moved the text to 31,16... but it doesn't seem to work there either...

[pipfromslitherine]

Are you sure PreBattleSetup is being called from somewhere?

Cheers

Pip

[GottaLove88s]

Are you sure PreBattleSetup is being called from somewhere?

Cheers

Pip

DOH!! I'm absolutely certain that it, err, wasn't being called...
Thanks Pip. It works fine now.

[DocMogs]

ok so i'm trying to do this and i've followed the example in the template with no success

how do i ensure PreBattleSetup is called?

i.e. what file do i alter to make sure it is called?

thanks for any help

[pipfromslitherine]

PreBattleSetup is just a user function. Many people use the function name for the function they call to set things up initially. You would need to add something like

if(GetTurn() == -1)
{
PreBattleSetup() ;
}

to your StartTurn function

Cheers

Pip