Game text

Entity Description

An entity that displays text on player's screens. This text can be defined directly in the Hammer editor (unlike the similar env_message entity).

Warning:Do not use quotation characters (") in the Text Message field in any way. (Not even \" characters.) These characters will cause the map compiler/loader to misinterpret the character as a termination of the Text Message argument, will fail to interpret the rest of the VMF file, and will give you the "line <line number>: unexpected symbol '<symbol>'" error. Instead of quotation marks, you can use single or double apostrophe characters "'". (Valve used single apostrophes.)

Keyvalues

• Template:Kv targetname
• master

<target_destination> Legacy support: The name of a master entity. If the master hasn't been activated, this entity will not activate.

• message

<string> Message to display onscreen. \n signifies a new line in the text.

• x

<float> Horizontal position on the player's screens to draw the text. The value should be between 0 and 1, where 0 is the far left of the screen and 1 is the far right. -1 centers the text.

• y

<float> Vertical position on the player's screens to draw the text. The value should be between 0 and 1, where 0 is the top of the screen and 1 is the bottom. -1 centers the text.

• effect

<choices> Text Effect.

Literal value	Description
0	Fade In/Out
1	Credits
2	Scan Out

• color

<color255> Color1.

• color2

<color255> Color2.

• fadein

<float> The time it should take for the text to fully fade in.

• fadeout

<float> The time it should take for the text to fade out, after the hold time has expired.

• holdtime

<float> The time the text should stay onscreen, after fading in, before it begins to fade out.

• fxtime

<float> If the 'Text Effect' is set to Scan Out, this is the time it should take to scan out all the letters in the text.

• channel

<choices> Text Channel. You can have up to four individual game_text messages onscreen at once, stored in channels. Select which channel this text should be placed in, which will overwrite any active message already in that channel.

Literal value	Description
0	Channel 0
1	Channel 1
2	Channel 2
3	Channel 3
4	Channel 4
5	Channel 5

Flags

• 1 : All Players

Inputs

• Template:I targetname
• Display

Display the message text.

Outputs

• Template:O targetname

Also See

• env_message - A similar entity that displays already defined messages from titles.txt.
• point_message - A similar entity that displays a small custom message at a specific position in the game world.