Game text quick
The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is game_text_quick.
Entity Description
An entity that displays text on screen. The text can be defined in the Hammer Editor. The difference between game_text and game_text_quick is, that you can trigger the message you want to show on screen through the Input/Output-System. The game_text_quick entity helps in many ways, mainly to save ent_data in huge maps and ease complex game_text In-/Outputrelations into one step.
Keyvalues
- targetname <target_source>
The name that other entities refer to this entity by.
- spawnflags <flags>
spawnflags
- message <string>
Message to display onscreen.
- x <string>
Horizontal position on the player's screens to draw the text. The value should be between 0 and 1, where 0 is the far left of the screen and 1 is the far right. -1 centers the text.
- y <string>
Vertical position on the player's screens to draw the text. The value should be between 0 and 1, where 0 is the top of the screen and 1 is the bottom. -1 centers the text.
- effect <choices>
- color <color255>
- color2 <color255>
- fadein <string>
The time it should take for the text to fully fade in.
- fadeout <string>
The time it should take for the text to fade out, after the hold time has expired.
- holdtime <string>
The time the text should stay onscreen, after fading in, before it begins to fade out.
- fxtime <string>
If the 'Text Effect' is set to Scan Out, this is the time it should take to scan out all the letters in the text.
- channel <choices>
You can have up to four individual game_text messages onscreen at once, stored in channels. Select which channel this text should be placed in, which will overwrite any active message already in that channel.
- master <string>
Legacy support: The name of a master entity. If the master hasn't been activated, this entity will not activate.
Inputs
- Kill
Removes this entity from the world.
- KillHierarchy
Removes this entity and all its children from the world.
- AddOutput <string>
Adds an entity I/O connection to this entity. Format: <output name> <targetname>:<inputname>:<parameter>:<delay>:<max times to fire (-1 == infinite)>. Very dangerous, use with care.
- FireUser1
Causes this entity's OnUser1 output to be fired.
- FireUser2
Causes this entity's OnUser2 output to be fired.
- FireUser3
Causes this entity's OnUser3 output to be fired.
- FireUser4
Causes this entity's OnUser4 output to be fired.
- Display
Display the message text.
- CounterEntity <string>
Input a String to specify which math counter will be used to replace (math) in your message with a value.
DisplayText <string> Display a message text defined in <string>.
Outputs
- OnUser1-4
Fired in response to FireUser1-4 input.
See also
point_message_multiplayer - A similar entity that displays a text on a fixed location in the world.
