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I am running into a lot of problems with text colouring, triggers, and briefing

The colouring problems are that sometimes the colouring appears, and sometimes it doesn't (same thing with my triggers). I set colours for individual lines, and it works for some of the text, but then it doesn't work for others. They are set up properly but they just don't work, like in the Forces menu, but the map name is coloured.

The triggers are the same. I have used 2 triggers that display a message at a certain time (on a countdown timer) and sometimes they just don't work. One will work, the the next one after it (which is a copy of the first, but with different time and message) wont show, the the next one shows up, and the last one doesn't work

The briefing question is that i can set the duration to anytime (tried :1000,10000,100000) and they all stay up for the same amount of time, i did the briefing in Starforge and they are set up properly

I am really confused and frustrated, any help is greatly appreciated

thats because force colors were disabled due to th enew patch

I'm not sure on the cause of this, but try pressing enter after each line, then putting the color and the next line.



A possible cause of this is lack of hyper triggers. Throw some hyper trigs in your map if you dont have them.



Not quite sure what you mean. Make sure you use the pattern--
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Show Speaking Portrait
Display Text Message
Wait
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if your going to have a character speak. Otherwise, just take out the speaking portrait part. And make all 3 (or 2) of them for the same amount of time.



Don't worry. Practice makes perfect. There are lots of little unknown things that can mess up your map. Gotta stay aware

Hopefully you don't mean forces as in text coloring. . If you are talking about overlapping i could give you an example if neccessary. I could also help you help you with triggering if your in a jam, just pm me and i could help you out.

You could be experiencing wait blocks with your other triggers. If you have a longer wait on one of them, the trigger must wait for that 'wait' to finish before starting the next trigger.

Might have something to do with the new patch...i heard you cant stack text on forces with the new one so maby it effects colors..?

The color codes are different as of patch 1.14. It really confused me when text I had set as invisible started appearing red. Try these and see if it works.

What I meant was that no matter the set amount of time , whether 1000,or 100000 millisecond wiat, the briefing would only appear for the same amount of time (in my case 1 second). It is like no matter the time i set for the briefing, it wont change, sorry about the confusion, i hope this makes a little more sence

probably the reason you are having problems with your triggers, is because your conditions are unreliable. the problem is, without hyper triggers, your triggers run once every 2 seconds, and if your triggers are required to execute at a precise time on the countdown timer, the triggers obviously won't always execute. its a 50/50 chance really. i would recommend adding hyper triggers if you haven't already done so. also, try making the conditions more reliable. if your current condition for the text is, if countdown timer is exactly 13, try changing it to, if countdown timer is at least 11, if countdown timer is at most 15.

as for the briefing, you need to add a wait trigger, equal to the same time as the display text message trigger. 1000 milliseconds equals 1 second.

post back to inform us if that was of any help to you.