So, here's some undocumented functionality that you guys might want to play with. It was just added in B25, and the documentation but seems to be having some issues putting it up on the wiki.
You can control the huge text banners ("GO!", "WIN", "FAIL"). Here's a little guide for how to do it.
First, you need to get the banner itself from the activity that it's attached to by calling Activity:GetBanner. This only seems to work if you have a reference to the script instance of the activity (so, ActivityMan:GetActivity won't work in this case). Here are its arguments:
- Which color banner to get. Your choices are GUIBanner.RED and GUIBanner.YELLOW.
- Which player's banner to get.
Next, you need to call GUIBanner:ShowText. These are its arguments:
- The text to display.
- The animation mode to display the text in. Your choices are GUIBanner.BLINKING, GUIBanner.FLYBYLEFTWARD and GUIBanner.FLYBYRIGHTWARD.
- The duration of the animation the text is displayed in. Negative value means the text pauses at the display/center until HideText is called. This is how long the letters will stay on the screen once they've all arrived.
- The width and height of the bitmap target this will be displayed on. You should almost always set this to Vector(FrameMan.PlayerScreenWidth, FrameMan.PlayerScreenHeight).
- The Y position the banner should appear on the target, in normalized value. 0.5 = banner midline is centered on halfway down the target.
- The speed at which the characters will fly, in pixels per second.
- The spacing between the flying characters, in pixels. For instance, if you set this to 10, the second letter won't fly on until the second one is 10 pixels from the side of the screen. If you set this to the full width of the bitmap target, the letters will fly on one at a time.
Lastly, if you set the animation duration to -1, the letters will arrive on-screen and stay there until you call GUIBanner:HideText. Its arguments are:
- The speed at which the characters will fly, in pixels per second.
- The spacing between the flying characters, in pixels.
So, here's an example usage:
Code:
local banner = self:GetBanner(GUIBanner.RED, Activity.PLAYER_1)
banner:ShowText("FREE CRABS!", GUIBanner.FLYBYLEFTWARD, 1000, Vector(FrameMan.PlayerScreenWidth, FrameMan.PlayerScreenHeight), 0.5, 1000, 100);
banner:ShowText("FREE CRABS!", GUIBanner.FLYBYLEFTWARD, 1000, Vector(FrameMan.PlayerScreenWidth, FrameMan.PlayerScreenHeight), 0.5, 1000, 100);
And the result:
