If this has been covered, I am sorry fro bringing it up; I searched the archives and have not found anything.

I've been talking with some people on the EVN board about the EV/EVO ports(http://www.AmbrosiaS...TML/010051.html), and two issues came up: first, the EVNgine displays the pilot info on the main page differently than the original games and there doesn't seem to be a way to alter this via DITLs. Has anyone found a way to alter this?

The second issue deals with scrolling intro text. EVN uses static text that acts as a slide show, but the first two games used text from STR# resources to generate text that scrolled up the screen in a vague Star Wars fashion. There was a vague reference by mburch (http://www.AmbrosiaS...TML/002866.html) where he says: (movies are)"Mostly for mission briefings, although the intro text and the shipyard support movies as well."

Maybe I read this incorrectly, but this implies that traditional intro text is possible. Besides, great pains were taken to allow developers to easily change buttons by altering text vs providing images, so it seems counter-intuitive that the opposite would have happened for introduction text.

Any thoughts?

-STH

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Each individual chär resource has fields for Intro Pictures and Intro Text. You can put the scrolling text in a dësc resource, then enter the ID of the dësc into the IntroText field for the appropriate chär. What they did in the Nova scenario was put the text in the pictures. Then they just had the chär display the pictures, without any Intro Text.

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Yes, but that way the user has to scroll... :frown:
I think what Regulus said in the EVN forum is the best thing, to put it into a movie. That way, you could even get that drum loop in there...

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**Yes, but that way the user has to scroll...:frown:
I think what Regulus said in the EVN forum is the best thing, to put it into a movie. That way, you could even get that drum loop in there...

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It's amazing how much I've missed that drum loop... Scwewy, ain't it? Yes, I was thinking either a movie or a .gif, but I don't know if Nova'd accept a .gif.

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**Yes, but that way the user has to scroll...:frown:
I think what Regulus said in the EVN forum is the best thing, to put it into a movie. That way, you could even get that drum loop in there...

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Have you tried it? I believe it works exactly like the original text.

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The movie works, but the compressed flash file is way too fast. Also, the movied didn't have the drum loop, I'll have to add it in.

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**The movie works, but the compressed flash file is way too fast. Also, the movied didn't have the drum loop, I'll have to add it in.

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Don't use a movie at all, just use a desc and put its ID in the IntroText ID slot of the char. It should display it just like in the originals, drum loop and all.

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Originally posted by Russell Quintero:
Don't use a movie at all, just use a desc and put its ID in the IntroText ID slot of the char. It should display it just like in the originals, drum loop and all.

I haven't tried it in recent builds, but the last time I did this, it just displayed a normal dësc window just like it does for missions - no auto-scrolling, music, or anything.

(Hey, neat - someone's changed the forum's new topic/post reply buttons!)

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And I like the new button! Let thanks Andrew!

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The buttons are cool and all, but I've got doubts as to how well they go with anything...

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They probably go well with Safari...

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They go well with the rest of ASW's site. Everything is changed. However, this doesn't related to the main topic, so let's get back to it. Does anyone know exactly what is displayed if you use intro text (in the latest version)?

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It is a desc, shown in a mission window. What I may do is make it a movie, but I couldn't figure out how to add sound where there is already a PICT... Any thoughts?

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