Don't forget Dave Pitt!
"Essays on Mind and Money" <-- :P Sounds like somebody copy/pasted from Hive. Same for the treaty/war ones.
Mea culpa. Comes from using Facedit (sic) to kick off a new faction textfile, pasting in the index header from Brian's and editing the results.
Looks like I might have left a few Hivisms behind in the process which I am getting round to correcting.I didn't know about [square brackets]!
It really was new to me too. But a few days later, as part of my "clean-up" as noted above, I was trawling through 'script.txt' looking for something related - and found THIS almost at the beginning:--Quote; 6) The "{" and "}" characters are used to indicate text which should
; be displayed in BOLD type. The "[" and "]" characters indicate
; text which should be displayed in ITALIC type. A {} sequence or
; a [] sequence can begin and end on different lines.
;
; 7) Lines beginning with "^" begin on new lines.
;
; 8 ) Lines beginning with "^^" are centered.
So, it was there all along, written in 1997 by the Firaxis team.
Interesting note: you can see the results of using [ ] brackets at game setup for the Virgin faction BUT if you look up the faction profile through F1 there's NO italic used, it's all squashed to normal font type.
I'm still getting my head around that oddity, but my current best guess would be that alphacentauri.ini values take senior precedence.
Interesting note #2: the [ ] brackets don't seem to work as advertised within the 'movlist.txt' file. On the other hand, the ^ and ^^ operands DO seem functional. Italic type is possible during projects but it's a different hack and has a few variations. I'll post a separate how-to thread when I've dotted all of the "i"s.
^^+50% to $LINK<PSI Attack=15>.
; 6) The "{" and "}" characters are used to indicate text which should
; be displayed in BOLD type. The "[" and "]" characters indicate
; text which should be displayed in ITALIC type. A {} sequence or
; a [] sequence can begin and end on different lines.
;
; 7) Lines beginning with "^" begin on new lines.
;
; 8 ) Lines beginning with "^^" are centered.
Hey thanks for breaking this down. :) Good to have it all discovered and documented properly!
Although, heh, I like how you left "+50% to PSI Attack" on the end of your Dream Twister example shot haha
^^+50% to $LINK<PSI Attack=15>.
Nice to know, though. Means that special units can be given special attention in those areas in alphax.txt or whatever.
Fat Man? Hahaha
Hey, sounds good to me. :D Green text on a normally red faction anybody? Christmas alternating colours? XD
Finally got the Virgins to an Ascendant vic in 2345 last night - it was late and I let the credits play a little, when I suddenly realized that it was screenprinting in Alpha Centauri font !!
It's the ONLY instance of that font being used in the game since I bunged a copy in the OS's Font folder and tweaked the ini file :--