Reading a note - would I use scaleform for this?

[JessieG]

I'm not 100% sure if scale form is required for this, but I want to figure out how to get a sequence working where if the player walks up to a piece of paper, they are prompted to press E to read it. When they do, I want the note to pop up full screen, kind of like how games like silent hill would do it.

Would I have to create a scaleform menu with just a static image and trigger that to show when E is pressed? I was thinking about having a plane pop up in front of the camera with a texture of the note on it but I think scaleform would probably be better quality. Anyone have any experience with setting something up like this?

[Spoof]

The simplest way to do it is to use the canvas drawing functions such as DrawTile or DrawTexture to render a texture in the standard HUD. No need to fiddle with planes.

Scaleform would be an option to save texture memory, or to provide a more complete solution: dynamic text, animation, etc.

The most elaborate solution would be to use Scaleform to render pages that are then applied to a book mesh in world. With this you can depict an entire volume of pages with page turning, etc, etc. But I suspect this is overkill for what you want

[JessieG]

Ah thank you! Canvas sounds likes a good solution. I'll look into that and see how it looks, though I did manage to figure out how to trigger an Swf to play so I'll fiddle with both to see which result is better. Thanks for the tip!