Is it possible to expand the amount of text that shows up in the brief text and other mission dialog boxes? So far I have figured out how to make the boxes bigger and it shows a little bit more, but the amount of text that shows up is limited to 1017 bits. Is there a way to make the enlarged dialog boxes show more than 1017 bits of text? Thanks.
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The only way I'm aware of is to wait for Nova in a few months. Sorry, but there is a cap on the size of dësc resources.
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try messing with the DILT ID#1016 found in the application of EV. This might work; I was able to change the size of the picuture when you talk to a planet with this technique. Hope you can do it!
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Originally posted by Argyre:
**Is there a way to make the enlarged dialog boxes show more than 1017 bits of text? Thanks.
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Nope. That's the max for EV/O. Like Macavenger said, Nova may be different.
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I think Matt said it was quadruple, or maybe 8x as much, and scroll arrows were added to dialog boxes to account for this. You'll have a lot more room to play with, don't worry.
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So go on the internet game sites and bash all the PC users!
Quadrupled, I believe. Matt said he needed to do so to satisfy ATMOS's seemingly insatiable desire for more mission text. Ironically, pipeline mentioned that recent cuts mean the expanded text capacity won't be used all that much in Nova. But I digress, I must say that I am quite looking forward to playing around with extra text. Every mission I've ever written for EVO has had too much text to fit in the dialog box, meaning some of it is cut off. :mad:
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(This message has been edited by StarStrafer (edited 06-05-2001).)
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Originally posted by NNNormal:
**try messing with the DILT ID#1016 found in the application of EV. This might work; I was able to change the size of the picuture when you talk to a planet with this technique. Hope you can do it!
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I did change the DILT resources, expanding the mission text boxes. It showed only a little more. The standard window size does not show all of the text that can be displayed.
Thanks for all your help everyone!
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Originally posted by Argyre:
**I did change the DILT resources, expanding the mission text boxes. It showed only a little more. The standard window size does not show all of the text that can be displayed.
Thanks for all your help everyone!
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There are 4 resources that you will need to change in order to display more text in the mission dialogues (others have already mentioned the limit on text length.) 'DLOG' resources control the size, stle and placement of the dialogue boxes; 'DITL' resources control the contents of the boxes. The mission dialogues are DITL/DLOG ID#1016 for the mission offer dialogue and DITL/DLOG ID#3003 for the desc text that appears during the mission - brief, load cargo, completion, etc. (I think I got that right, anyway there are different resources for the offer and the descs that appear after a mission is accepted.)
I have a set of modified resources around here somewhere that i could e-mail to you if you are interested in seeing them.
Good luck with your plug.
