game_text

GoldSrc

Source Engine

game_text is a point entity available in all GoldSrc games. This entity displays text on player's screens.

Key Values

Targetname:

Name (targetname) <string>

The targetname that other entities refer to this entity by.

Target:

Target (target) <targetname>

The targetname of an entity this entity will trigger when activated.

Master (master) <targetname>

Name of a master entity.

Message Name (message) <string>

Message to be shown.

X (0 - 1.0 = left to right) (-1 centers) (x) <string>

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 (0 - 1.0 = top to bottom) (-1 centers) (y) <string>

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.

Text Effect (effect) <choices>

Text scan effect

#	Name	Description
0	Fade In/Out	The whole text is faded in, and then faded out.
1	Credits
2	Scan Out	The text is scanned in letter by letter, and the whole text is then faded out.

Color1 (color) <color255>

The primary color used by all the text effects.

Color2 (color2) <color255>

The scanning color for the letter being scanned if the Text Effect keyvalue is set to Scan Out—usually a different shade of Color1.

Fade in Time (or character scan time) (fadein) <string>

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

Fade Out Time (fadeout) <string>

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

Hold Time (holdtime) <string>

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

Scan time (scan effect only) (fxtime) <string>

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.

Text Channel (channel) <choices>

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.

Channel 0 to Channel 4

Flags

All Players : [1]

If this is not set, the message will only show to !activator.