zappenduster on 4/5/2021 at 16:03
Another very strange book problem, did anybody ever experience this? :erg:
I've several STRs, some of them books, parches etc to be displayed as formatted pages. Some others are to be displayed on screen by using the plaque function (StdBook, no art). Nothing special by itself.
To save some unnecessary work and translations I use some OM STRs right from the RES folder, both for books (some Hammerite/Mechanist stuff) and for plaques (door labels).
As far as the formatted pages are concerned every STR is displayed in books or parches as desired, no matter if they are OM or own STRs. So the book pathes seem to be OK, as expected.
But on screen I only see the OM plaque texts, none of my own custom texts. I tried to find any differences beween OM texts and mines, of course nothing, I even added an empty line at the end as usual in OM files. No effect.
Any idea? :confused:
RippedPhreak on 4/5/2021 at 17:44
Make sure that under your mission's path you have the "strings" directory and "intrface" directory created. Something about the books will look for the correct directories and will fail if they aren't there.
Edit: Also make sure that when you saved your text, it did not save as a txt file. When you save it, change the file type to "All Files." Also if your book file is titled for example: "information" then you save it as "information.str" with the quotes included. That should force Windows to recognize it as STR not TXT.
zappenduster on 5/5/2021 at 19:20
Quote Posted by RippedPhreak
Make sure that under your mission's path you have the "strings" directory and "intrface" directory created. Something about the books will look for the correct directories and will fail if they aren't there.
By the Builder, that was it, thanx RippedPhreak!!! :D :thumb:
I renamed those folders and forget to re-rename them. Didn't think of it because only the onscreen texts were concerned, not formatted books.
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https://www.ttlg.com/forums/images/smilies/weird.gifQuote Posted by RippedPhreak
Also make sure that when you saved your text, it did not save as a txt file. When you save it, change the file type to "All Files." Also if your book file is titled for example: "information" then you save it as "information.str"
with the quotes included. That should force Windows to recognize it as STR not TXT.
Sure, ParchEd knows ... me too. ;)
