Allow bulk adding of sound files & images to Mission, rather than one per ACTION.

[TEMPEST.114]

Since it's no longer possible to add files into the .miz file through Windows Explorer (due to them being 'offset in the resource file' I believe), please can you add a new menu feature to the Mission Editor to bulk add 'n' number of sound and image files into the mission, which can then be addressed as normal via scripting or the PICTURE TO xxxxx via the GUI (where instead of choosing a file, you can choose from a file OR an already included file - same for SOUND TO xxxxxx).

This is a real pain, loading them at mission start, one by one using NEUTRALS and the output so people don't hear the cacophony. 

Thanks

 

Edited April 12, 2024 by Elphaba

[TEMPEST.114]

@Flappie Hi. Do you know if this got missed or if someone looked at it and gave it a considered response? It would be an amazing QoL addition. 

[ACS_Dev]

This would indeed be huge.

Edited June 3, 2024 by ACS_Dev

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  On 4/12/2024 at 3:01 PM, TEMPEST.114 said:

Since it's no longer possible to add files into the .miz file through Windows Explorer (due to them being 'offset in the resource file' I believe), please can you add a new menu feature to the Mission Editor to bulk add 'n' number of sound and image files into the mission, which can then be addressed as normal via scripting or the PICTURE TO xxxxx via the GUI (where instead of choosing a file, you can choose from a file OR an already included file - same for SOUND TO xxxxxx).

This is a real pain, loading them at mission start, one by one using NEUTRALS and the output so people don't hear the cacophony. 

Thanks

 

 

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Hi,

the mission editor removes files when they are not in the dictionary, either in the root folder, or in the l10n/default folder.

you can still add your own folders, that will not be touched, e.g. a "sounds" folder on the root level.

you can use those with e.g.

trigger.action.outSound('sounds/bla.ogg')

similar works for images, unfortunately there is no trigger.action.outPicture, so you need to use this:

net.dostring_in('mission', 'a_out_picture("images/test.jpg", 10, false, 0, "1", "1", 100, "0")')

[shazam253]

hello Ops.

As you stated there is not outPicture with the trigger class, but you roughly elaborate on the arguments of above command? I'd like to create a timer based on numbers with particular fonds. At best, I could scale it to like 10% screen size and put it at the buttom left corner.

thanks!