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Old 03-14-2006, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Projectshifter
I know how the system works. It makes a lot more sense to just rescript things on your own. For signs and such you could clientside the message (or if needbe set a string of signs on the client when you enter the level) and then have a clientsided NPC handle the viewing and displaying of the message. I personally don't think using say2 to display signs for newer servers is going to cut it, showtext (or if you really felt compelled to make a system to read from a file like letters.png you) isn't hard manage in conjunction with a scripted form of signs.
Classic's systems are supposed to be based on the default systems but to offer more flexibility. I don't like using say2 for mimicking the default signs.

It isn't possible to read from letters.png right now, and that creates a problem in trying to make a new system regarding it. If I were to make a new system regarding it, I would want to make it automatically wrap text and give it the ability to align the text for a line, etc.

The END graphic on Classic can't use letters.png because there's no possible way to grab the background color of letters.png from a pixel. In the meantime, redrawing the pixel a gajillion times would be quite inefficient.
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