Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Adding help rolling text for a new unit

2015-02-13T18:38:29+02:00

I've figured it out myself. To add cursor roll-over help text to a unit in the menu simply edit the C:\FA\mods\My_mod\units\my_unit.bp blueprint file and add an Abilities section under the display section.

For example:

...
Description = 'My Super Tank',
Display = {
Abilities = {
'My new super laser tank coments' ,
'Example comments, note the apostrophe and commas',
'Text will pop-up when cursor rolls over the unit',
'MaxRadius = 31 (originally 15)',
'Damage = 100 (originally 50)',
},
Mesh = {
IconFadeInZoom = 130,
...

Enjoy!

Statistics: Posted by bofhlusr — 13 Feb 2015, 18:38

Adding help rolling text for a new unit

2015-02-13T02:27:06+02:00

I'm new to FAF so I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this. If not, I apologize, but since the FA forums in the official website is basically inactive, I didn't know where else to post.

In FA, when you roll the cursor over a unit that you want to build in a factory, a pop-up shows up with a *detailed* description of the unit.

I've checked the files in \gamedata\lua.scd (unitdescription.lua) and in \gamedata\ lua_US.scd (strings_db.lua) but for some reason, I cannot get the rollover for a unit I imported from a mod.

Thanks.

Statistics: Posted by bofhlusr — 13 Feb 2015, 02:27