[Turambar]

I just ate a delicious cheesesteak.

[Aardwolf]

also, I am now a STALKER
call of prypat owner

Aughh. Even at maximum zoom I can't read it! I had to copy+paste. LAME.

Quote it, moron.

Touché jerk

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm toilet roll

[NGTM-1R]

I'm toilet roll

Well, at least you're not in the ****.

Yet...

[Colonol Dekker]

Do you know something I don't?
 

[Bob-san]

Do you know something I don't?
 

Yes.

[Aardwolf]

I has a bored.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'd be worried if I was a worrier.
 
But i'm not so am not
 
 
Anyway. HLP London BBQ has been a good old experience. Still on it to be honest.
 
Night night.

[Shivan Hunter]

Putting dialogue in mission is arguably even more annoying than writing it. I need a program that will take a list of messages and spit out a FRED-readable list of messages and a message-list SEXP that displays all of them. I am however too lazy to write said program

[General Battuta]

Putting dialogue in mission is arguably even more annoying than writing it. I need a program that will take a list of messages and spit out a FRED-readable list of messages and a message-list SEXP that displays all of them. I am however too lazy to write said program

Message-list sucks. Don't use it!

[Dilmah G]

I've only encountered minor issues using it.

Putting dialogue in mission is arguably even more annoying than writing it. I need a program that will take a list of messages and spit out a FRED-readable list of messages and a message-list SEXP that displays all of them. I am however too lazy to write said program

I would be quite happy if an individual could write such a program.

[General Battuta]

I've only encountered minor issues using it.

Try setting up checkpoints or dialogue skips with it. Or for that matter timing events mid-dialogue.

[Klaustrophobia]

I've only encountered minor issues using it.

Putting dialogue in mission is arguably even more annoying than writing it. I need a program that will take a list of messages and spit out a FRED-readable list of messages and a message-list SEXP that displays all of them. I am however too lazy to write said program

I would be quite happy if an individual could write such a program.

if i knew what FRED-readable meant, that sounds like something that would be within my programming abilities.

[Dilmah G]

I've only encountered minor issues using it.

Try setting up checkpoints or dialogue skips with it. Or for that matter timing events mid-dialogue.

I've done the latter, and I know the limitations of the sexp.

[NGTM-1R]

I need a new quote for my signature, but I haven't even gotten started on another chapter to quote from.

[Snail]

Putting dialogue in mission is arguably even more annoying than writing it. I need a program that will take a list of messages and spit out a FRED-readable list of messages and a message-list SEXP that displays all of them. I am however too lazy to write said program

Message-list sucks. Don't use it!

Wha

[General Battuta]

I've only encountered minor issues using it.

Try setting up checkpoints or dialogue skips with it. Or for that matter timing events mid-dialogue.

I've done the latter, and I know the limitations of the sexp.

If you change dialogue timing it's much easier to also change event timing using a series of send-messages in chained events.

I stopped using send-message-list after my first few missions.

[StarSlayer]

The company sent a bunch of us to the Aerosmith, J. Geils Band show at Fenway tonight.  Pretty good seats and the shows were pretty tight, much better then I expected.

[Shivan Hunter]

(split needed, or not yet?)

message-list is useful, to me at least, for a very specific purpose: a long string a dialogue, uninterrupted by other events. Timing events is a simple matter of counting, and the way I use message-list, a "skip dialogue" feature would simply skip the entire block (I haven't tried to implement this feature yet, but I don't think it would require too much trickery).

About the program: a simple text script ought to do it. I would take a list of messages formatted as

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"NAME:AVI:SENDER:MESSAGE\n" and return a list of messages

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"$Name: NAME \n$Team: -1 \n$MessageNew: XSTR("MESSAGE", -1) \n$end_multi_text \n+AVI Name: AVI\n\n" and a list of events

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"$Formula: ( when\n\t( true )\n\t( send-message\n\t\t"SENDER"\n\t\t"High"\n\t\t"NAME"\n\t)\n)\n+Name: NAME msg\n+Repeat Count: 1\n+Interval: 1\n+Team: 0\n\n"
The priority in send-message may have to be tweaked afterwards, as well as the Team, Persona and Wave file of the message- and I would have to use something other than colons as delimiters in the input file- but that should cover most people's needs. I could also count up the number of messages so the user could change that in the mission file when inserting the events/messages.

[General Battuta]

(split needed, or not yet?)

message-list is useful, to me at least, for a very specific purpose: a long string a dialogue, uninterrupted by other events. Timing events is a simple matter of counting, and the way I use message-list, a "skip dialogue" feature would simply skip the entire block

Problem is you then need to pop up the prompt to skip the dialogue before the dialogue begins, which looks awkward. 'Press warpout to skip upcoming dialogue' is less elegant than 'press warpout to skip dialogue'.