128-2175 | Stellar object descriptions, shown when landed on a planet. |
3000-3511 | Outfit item descriptions, shown in ship outfitting dialog. |
4000-4999 | Mission descriptions, shown in mission dialog. |
13000-13767 | Ship class descriptions, shown in the shipyard and requisition-escort dialog. |
13999 | Message shown after the player uses an escape pod. |
14000-14767 | Ship pilot descriptions, shown in the hire-escort dialog. |
32760-32767 | Reserved |
1 | Description | The text to be displayed - see below for more details. The Insert Wildcard pop-up menu lists all of the available wildcards and NCB expressions. Please note that only characters available in the Mac OS Roman encoding are accepted. |
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2 | Graphic | This is used to include graphics in mission briefings. If you put in the ID of a valid PICT resource, Nova will display that image along with the description text when it displays a mission dialog box (with the exception of the Mission Computer and Mission Info dialogs). This is also used to associate graphics with bar and ship descriptions. |
3 | MovieFile | The name of a QuickTime movie file to display before the briefing dialog appears. This file must reside either in "Nova Files" or "Nova Plug-ins". If "cinema mode" is selected, the background is blanked and the screen faded before and after showing the movie. |
{bXXX "string one" "string two"}
This is a {b001 "great and terrific" "lousy, terrible"} example.
My name is {b002 "Dave \"pipeline\" Williams"}
This is a test string and the player is {G "a male character" "a female pilot"}.
This is a test string you {P "have paid" "haven't paid"}.