How do I make chat appear as a game-text??

[the_playa6916]

Does anyone know how to make the entered chat appear as game text, like in DEFIANCE's ORPG?? Thanks!!

[Chris]

Well, you need to store what the person says into a string variable. Then find the function that displays what it holds.

[the_playa6916]

ahh. that makes sence =). and what about deleting its appearence as chat? or can i make it so players DONT see eachothers chat messages even though they are allied?

[Chris]

I think there was a Clear Text function in there along the same lines, that solves the deleting part. As for the player filtering, when you generate teh text, make it so that only select players can do it.

The problem is I haven't used TFT editor in a long time, and I am just giving you psuedo-code in hopes that you can find it yourself.

[the_playa6916]

'clear text' clears the game text but not the chat text =(

[Chris]

I am afraid for chat text its done within the game's code, it expires after a certian amount of time.

[the_playa6916]

yeah that's what i thot. but how in the world does DEFIANCE get it deleted then?? Is there maybe a way to FORCE players to always write to observers/enemies?

[Chris]

Hard to say. Unless I had an unprotected version of that map, I can't really figure it out. The problem is I would have to cut off the person who does that, unless the map is unpopular or created by one of our members.

[the_playa6916]

well you can always view it as an MPQ if you can read JASS. I noticed that in defiance, its a lot like how when you enter a cheatcode in singleplayer, the chat just doesnt show up after you press enter. However the game can still recognize it as chat (that's how the map boots ppl if they try 2 play an RPG in single-player and type in a cheat)..

Like for example, in single player, if you type "greedisgood", it won't show up as chat, but you'll see "Cheat Code Entered"... the chat event can still be used 2 recognize this and the chat string would still be "greedisgood". I sorta want it like that, but EVERYTHING that's typed just doesnt show up and i can make it appear as game-text instead.

[vp-flash]

i don´t know.. need to find it

[NearbyHermit]

Here this may help,just erase the part were it creates text above unit and change it to general game text

Warcraft III Spells - [System] Chat Over Unit

[Nemesiz]

Yea i tried the link and it worked.