[Goober5000]

This feature is backlogged by something like three years.  Anyway, it's now done, and I bet that at least one mod will be able to use it.

http://fs2source.warpcore.org/temp/fictionviewer.zip

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[karajorma]

Excellent.

I know I've answered a few questions by saying that the fiction view would be a good way of solving it. One question though, can you supply a voice to read the audio?

[Goober5000]

It's possible, but I didn't implement it...

That would be an awful lot of text for a person to read at one sitting, though, wouldn't it?  Command briefings, as small as they are, are sometimes over 30 seconds long.

[Tolwyn]

lovely!

By the way, will the fiction be included in the mission file, just like the command briefing? If so, will there be a character limit?

[karajorma]

From the looks of it the file is read from a txt file in Data\Fiction

There's no actual way to set things up in FRED yet either (you'll have to use notepad) but I assume that's coming once code has been more heavily tested.

[Goober5000]

Yup.

[redsniper]

Can someone explain the whole "Oh sad race" and teeth falling out thing to me? I remember not getting it back when I lurked on the VBB and I still don't get it to this day.

[colecampbell666]

  is this?

[redsniper]

Goober demonstrating the new fiction viewer by using it to show the first few posts of TaS.

[colecampbell666]

Fiction viewer? TaS?

[redsniper]

Fiction viewer TaS

[Mobius]

This feature is backlogged by something like three years.  Anyway, it's now done, and I bet that at least one mod will be able to use it.

http://fs2source.warpcore.org/temp/fictionviewer.zip

Fantastic! That's what I need!

But the interface is WCS-ish...are there any chance of having something more FS-ish?

[colecampbell666]

What is the point of this?

[Mobius]

What about...you can use it instead of .txt or word files to tell stories concerning FreeSpace and its MODs?

It's useful since the Species.tbl has limits. And thanks to cheats, you can read all entries.

[Axem]

Could it somehow be possible to add images/pictures in the viewer?

[Goober5000]

Fantastic! That's what I need!

But the interface is WCS-ish...are there any chance of having something more FS-ish?

Good.

The interface is WCS-ish because the WCS guys designed it.  If you want a FS-ish interface, you're going to have to make your own artwork.

What is the point of this?

It lets you add a "fanfiction cutscene" before a mission.  WCS will use it in place of the flash-based fiction viewer they used in the Prologue.  SA is going to use it for readings from the Scroll (assuming someone creates FS-ish interface art).  I'm sure other mods can think of other uses.

Could it somehow be possible to add images/pictures in the viewer?

Theoretically.  What are you thinking of?

[NGTM-1R]

I already have a use lined up (with FS-ish interface art).

One thing.

Shouldn't this require a FRED build to indicate where you want the stories to go? Or is this handled in some other fashion? (FRED seems most logical...)

[karajorma]

I'm sure Goober will add FRED controls in a bit. But I've always found that when I'm making a new feature I always make it so that it works in Freespace and needs to be edited into a mission using notepad at first. Once I'm certain the feature does everything I want it to I fix the mission saving format so that it won't wipe my changes when I save a mission and only once that's all done do I add the controls to FRED.

Looks like Goober works the same way.

[TrashMan]

Couldn't Command briefings handle this?

[Tolwyn]

Couldn't Command briefings handle this?

no