Adding Captions, Subtitles or Text in THN Intro Scripts

I’m hoping someone knows the answer to this.

I am desperately trying to find a way to add captions/text to my intro animations (thn files).

The only thing I have found so far is adding some userprops attributes to the scene object - this being TextStart=“<time to=”" show=“”>“, TextMessage=”<id of=“” text=“” in=“” dll=“”>"

Which is fine, it displays text top left (like when you enter a new system etc)

But it can only display one message, and I want to be able to do multiple messages.

Here’s the thing, my intro animation shows all the ships in my mod, and as each one is brought into focus, I want to display the ship name.
Here’s the video of the intro animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4LGiXk5xzo

I understand detailed information on all the capabilities and specifications for THN scripts for animations is rather sparse, but does anyone know any more than can be found in the ‘starter’ tutorials?</id></time>

adoxa wrote:
It doesn’t look like there’s anything directly available, so I can only suggest a couple of things. You may be able to use the subtitles plugin to do it, although I believe atm it uses raw audio data, so you’d need to create unique files for each name; or you could use dummy models, using the texture for the name. The real shame is there is actually a [c]SUBTITLE[/c] event, but the subtitle interface is not implemented.

Cheers adoxa, it looks like dummy “panel” models and textures is the easiest way to get this done.

I did have a look at the subtitles plug-in, but it seems that would only work in-game and as you say is tied in to audio files being played.

It does seem a bit odd that the scenes scripting engine does not have the facility for subtitles and captions, but hey-ho, such is the way of things.