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Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 5:32 pm

This is now available for download here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File: ... .0.092.oxz

Wiki Page is here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Hints

Old Murgh wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 5:59 pm

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 5:32 pm

This is now available for download here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File: ... .0.092.oxz

Wiki Page is here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Hints

Hey. First OXP! Congratulations!

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 6:10 pm

Ahem!
Lore Collection (Classic Elite)
Addons for Beginners (Vital Statistics)
Broadcast Comms - Digebiti Variations

Cody wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 6:26 pm

Oh dear! Cholly's gone emoji-crazy!

cag wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:22 pm

You've got (private) mail!

montana05 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:01 am

I just installed hints without any problems. Good job, enjoyable to read. In a future release, you might want the exit screen to be F4 and change Activities to Misc in the manifest, but that's really marginal.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:17 pm

I bunged it in as activities as I was influenced by Life in the Frontier, which I'd eventually like to make it part of. Was that silly of me?

mission.runScreen
(
     {
	screenID: "strange_encounter_start",
	title: "A strange encounter ...", 
	message: encounterMessage,
	overlay: encounterImage,
	choices: options,
	exitScreen: "GUI_SCREEN_STATUS"
     },
)

montana05 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 2:09 am

I am currently kind of busy, so except 1 h in the morning while drinking my coffee, I don't have much time for coding. However, here is an update for you:

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this.showBar = function() {
mission.runScreen({
title: "The Local Bar",
screenID:"show_bar",
message: expandDescription("[hints_bar_gossip]"),
overlay: "litf_bg_localbar.png", //This adds the bar image behind the message
exitScreen: "GUI_SCREEN_INTERFACES",  // will go back to the F4 screen rather than to the main screen
                  })
}

This will exit the bar screen to F4 rather than to the main screen

Btw, your ReadME.txt is kind of corrupted for a simple Win user like me. While readable, it shows all hidden characters as well.

LittleBear wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:45 pm

I think news broadcasts with GNN would be quite an immersive way of introducing these sort of things. Information about missions at special stations could be done with a news item reporting on the fact. Guidance on how to do cargo contracts could be given indirectly by the news reporting on the mis-fortunes of a commander who made a mess of it (sued, assassins sent after him or just a paid for content item by the disgruntled client as to how useless he is). GNN's OXZ does the donkey work, so a simple script like this will feed news items to it over time:

Under this.startupcomplete set up a news variable as 0 if not already defined. This gives you an easy way to check that each news item in your script is only given once. Under exiting.hyperspace increment a timer each time a jump is made so you can spread out the flavour news items so they don't pop up all at once.

Then you just need a test like this under exiting hyperspace:-

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// Send the 2nd (Rooters) Broadcast to GNN.- Is Sent as a Prioity 1 once 4 jumps have been made since Broadcast 1 was sent.
if (missionVariables.random_station_names_news === 2 &&  missionVariables.random_station_names_timer > 3) {
missionVariables.random_station_names_timer = 0;
var news = new Object;
news.ID = this.name;
news.Message = expandDescription("[random_station_names_2_news]");
news.Agency = 2;
news.Priority = 1;
this.passScreen(news,1); 
// The same method is used as above.
}
// Send the 3rd (Tionisla Chronicle) Broadcast to GNN.- Is Sent as a Prioity 1 once 6 jumps have been made since Broadcast 2 was sent.
if (missionVariables.random_station_names_news === 3 &&  missionVariables.random_station_names_timer > 5) {
missionVariables.random_station_names_timer = 0;
var news = new Object;
news.ID = this.name;
news.Message = expandDescription("[random_station_names_3_news]");
news.Agency = 4;
news.Priority = 1;
this.passScreen(news,1); 
// The same method is used as above.
}

And so on for however many news broadcasts you want to write.

Now copy and past in the function below to send the news items to GNN when the conditions are met:

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this.passScreen = function(news,mode)
{var a = worldScripts.GNN._insertNews(news);
if(!a){ if(mode) missionVariables.random_station_names_news++;  // If GNN conforms sucess, advance the News Counting variable to the next Broadcast.
return;
} else {if(a<0){ // If the buffer was full then the mission variable counting the News Broadcasts wasn't advanced. Once the player has made the required number of jumps Random Station names will check again.
return;
}}}

Thats all you need by way of a script.

In a descriptions file write the text for your news broadcasts. All you need is a:-

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"random_station_names_1_news" = "Type in your text!";
"random_station_names_2_news" = "Type in your text for the next one";

And so on for however many broadcasts you want to send.
 

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:30 pm

I want to start weaving in the GNN broadcasts, but the instructions above talk about bunging them in a descriptions.plist.

But I already have a descriptions.plist with the bar talk.

How do I keep the two lists (bar talk & GNN broadcasts) distinct so that they don't get confused and work as they are intended?