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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => OFP - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: TC on 22 Nov 2005, 00:59:31
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Hello all
In a campaign i am working on at the moment, you purchase weapons in between missions by entering a 'intermission' mission back at base. I have made it possible to gain money from achieving tasks, and you can then buy weapon s with the money by using the action menu, but i was wondering if it would be possible to create a proper dialouge screen, with a list down the left side of weapons to purchase, on the right the selected weapon would come up with a small picture, brief description and the ablility to buy magazines for the weapon, imagine like Counter strikey. I have never really tried my hand at this kind of pretty different scripting, so was wondering if anybody could get me started?
Regards
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indeed. dialogs look pretty complicated - they're dealt with in the advanced scripting board - but once you figure out the bits you need, i.e. a combo box, or buttons, or pictures, then the rest of it is just a very tedious process of getting the things in the right place on the screen, much like object placement - move it, preview, abort, move it a tiny bit more, preview, abort, move it a tiny bit more......
this tutorial (http://www.ofpec.com/editors/resource_view.php?id=66) is the one i used to learn dialogs. there's also a handy dialog maker (http://www.ofpec.com/editors/resource_view.php?id=637) which takes a lot of the tedium out of the task. both definitely worth a look.
good luck - dialogs are tricksy at first, but they add such a dynamic element to flashpoint missions, everyone should learn 'em ;)