TextScreen Function

TrancingBear

Hi All,

I'm experienced with modding the original BG games, but new to BG:EE. I'm trying to use the TextScreen function, but the 210x330 BMP image that normally appears in the left-hand frame (in the old game) is always blank. Furthermore, the text seems hard-wired to the game credits, ignoring my text ID value. Ideas of what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

swit

not sure if it helps but here is example TextScreen 2da file explanation

2DA     V1.0
NONE
        0       1
SWITCH  DEFAULT DEFAULT
DEFAULT -1      271356
SONG    135

change NONE to MOS file name (without extension)
change song (optional) to value from songlist.2da
change 271356 to tlk string number of your textstring text.

TrancingBear

Thanks swit,

In the old game it was a 210x330 BMP file (e.g., NIMEONL.BMP, but without the extension in the 2DA file). Has that changed? If so, how do I make a MOS file and what are the dimension requirements? Is there a way to make it work with BMPs? Thanks again.

TrancingBear

I can confirm that only a MOS file is accepted in the BG:EE engine. It appears that 274x430 is the proper resolution. And it's simple enough to convert the BMP into MOS by using the DLCT editor. Thanks again Swit.