Tracks inserting Text

[IvanK]

Once I have a track How to go at iinserting simple text at tyhe appropriate point to make a min tutorial ?

[Ironhand]

Inserting text into a track is a two part process. In the first part, you edit the track to insert the cues for the text. In the 2nd part, you type in the text itself using Notepad.

 

Part 1:

• Open the track in the Mission Editor and start it using the Edit Track command.
  
• Play the track and mark the start and end points for each section of text you wish to add using CTRL-9 (Start text segment) and SHIFT-9 (End text segment).
  
• Finish the track and save when cued.
  

Look in the folder where you saved the Edited track. There you will find a file with the same name as the newly saved track but with an SBT suffix (xxxxxx.sbt)

 

Part 2:

• Open the SBT file with Notepad. There you will see something that looks like this: begin = "00:00:18:123"; end = "00:00:30:000"; title = "";. This is the line that tells the sim when to start and stop displaying this section of text.
  
• Add the text you wish to display between the two "" in the section that reads title = "";.
  
• Here is an example. This is taken from the first stock A-10 training mission:
   
  begin = "00:00:18:123"; end = "00:00:30:000"; title = "Welcome to Lock On: Modern Air Combat and Undergraduate Pilot Training in the Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft, more affectionately known as, the Warthog! Please, do not manipulate the views or zoom levels while the training track plays.";
  begin = "00:00:34:123"; end = "00:00:45:456"; title = "The A-10 is a robust, tough, and easy to fly American designed and built twin turbofan ground attack aircraft featuring conventional instruments and systems.";
  begin = "00:00:46:123"; end = "00:00:59:281"; title = "This is your introduction to flight training where you will learn the information that the Head Up Display or HUD provides you and how to maneuver the aircraft with pitch, roll, and yaw.";
  begin = "00:01:00:344"; end = "00:01:10:297"; title = "To take control of the aircraft at any time press the 'CTRL-Q' keys. To exit this mission, press the 'ESC' key and to pause at anytime to read the text press the 'S' key.";
  Etc, etc, etc.
  

 

It's been a long time since I've gone this but I remember one big no-no. Do not use " in the text you add. This will screw you up. Also I would suggest that you spot test as you add text. Save the file and run the track to make sure the text is displaying properly. It's easy to screw up and, if you don't spot check, you could end up fine combing two or more pages of text trying to find the error that is keeping the text from displaying.

 

Good luck.

 

Rich

[IvanK]

Many thanks will start tinkering.