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Re: Terminal Formatting and Security Cameras

Posted By: Wolfchild
Date: 2005.10.28.11.01

In Response To: Terminal Formatting and Security Cameras (Wail of Suicide)

: Figured I'd post on this...

: I just tried to get the Bold and Italic things to work on
: the formatting of the terminals in Couch Fishing. No
: luck. I checked out Arrival for my example map. The
: combination $B is, supposedly, used to bold the text,
: and $b is used as the end delimiter. $I and $i do the
: same thing for italics. However, I just tried playing
: Arrival and noticed that they weren't actually doing
: anything. Is this just my version of the map?

I was going to. implement styled text. ucc can import Truetype fonts (that's how I got the Courier to use for the terminal text) but I believe that UT will only render the basic font - it has no facilities to render styled text like bold or italic. I could never find TrueType versions of Courier Bold or Courier Italic (since most font engines will just render them as styled versions of the basic font). I put that $B flags in the text in case I ever did find a way to get styled text working I wouldn't have to rework any of the terminals. They are fairly innocuous when you see them.

: Also, currently the Security Cameras allow you to look
: around the area. This isn't intended, I know. In the
: final release will this sort of thing be fixed? (Not
: really a big deal, but it might slightly affect how
: and where I set up the security cameras.)

If you couldn't pan the security cams around live, there would be no point in having them. You could just display a pic in the terminal instead. Besides, the whole point of the Sec Cams is to allow the user to find/recognize the destination. I specifically wanted to give the player a good chance to look around.

woof

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