Hey, as the subject says i'd like to get some text to appear on the screen when a player walks over a specific part of the map. I'd like the text to stay there for a couple seconds and I'd like for this to only happen once. If anyone could help with this that would be great. I'm pretty new at mapping/scripting so any answers will probably have to be dumbed down abit.

How do you get text to appear on screen when player walks over a trigger? in Scripting

Place the trigger_multiple in Radiant.
Then for the script, in yourmapname.gsc, after maps\_zombiemode::main(); thread a function:

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thread name_of_your_function();

Create the function at the end of the file. There are two ways, one easy and one "harder" but more customizable.

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// easy
name_of_your_function()
{
    trig = getEnt( "YOUR_TRIGGER_TARGETNAME", "targetname" );
    trig waittill( "trigger" );
    iprintlnbold( "YOUR MESSAGE" );
}

// harder
name_of_your_function()
{
    trig = getEnt( "YOUR_TRIGGER_TARGETNAME", "targetname" );
    trig waittill( "trigger" );
    thread print_message( "YOUR MESSAGE", 2 ); // replace 2 with the time
}

print_message( text, time )
{
    // change the position, the color, or whatever you want to change here
    hud = create_simple_hud();
    hud.alignX = "center";
    hud.alignY = "middle";
    hud.horzAlign = "center";
    hud.vertAlign = "middle";
    hud.y = -70;
    hud.fontscale = 1.5;
    hud.alpha = 1;
    hud.color = ( 1, 1, 1 );
    hud setText( text );
    wait time;
    hud destroy_hud();
}

Haven't tested so there could be some syntax errors, but it should work. Should have probably check if the one who triggers the trigger is player or things like that, but with this it should be ok.

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How do you get text to appear on screen when player walks over a trigger?