Control of on-screen text?

Is there a way to control the position and if possible, color of the onscreen text? I'm trying to get a message to appear immediately above a particular unit (in particular, an RPG-style damage display).

If there's no way to do this, can anyone else think of any way to achieve the desired effct?

So far, I've tried recreating the critical hit effect, but there's no way for me to alter it to 100%, x1 damage, and even if I could, I don't believe I can then have the map be played multiplayer on b-net (is there a way???)

One last possibility is creating 10 units or doodads, or tiles or something, each one looking like a digit. Does this sound like a viable idea, or will this too disable muliplayer?

sure you can color text.but what are you trying to make a spell like critical strike?????

In a perfect world, I'd like to duplicate the critical strike effect for all damage to a unit (all damage numbers appear over the damaged unit's head regardless of wether a critical strike is involved). I'm trying to duplicate the "floating number effect" used in RPG's like Final Fantasy to indicate damage.

Since "critical strike" isn't per se an effect (at least in the same sense that, say, whirlwind is) my next best option is to finagle the same effect in another way. So one thing I'd like to try is to have the damage dealt appear as a message on screen. But it looks pretty lame if it appears in the lower left corner above the mini-map. Ideally the message appear directly over the damaged unit, if possible

Another use, if such an ability exists, would be to create "comic book" style dialogues, with text-containing "dialogue balloons" over each speaking character in turn.

well i too was thinking of making a battle system like FF,well i dont realy know how that would work so if anybody know please post it i would like to know also :)

OOOO!

The users jefs posted something along this lines, and I think he has the right idea!

I'm pretty sure that the damage thing is an "animation tag" but I have NO clue how one would implement that kind of thing.

You should check out the lingeage map i attached (if attachments work), is has some interesting ways of displaying moster lvls and such, its quite buggy, but i have to say, i was really impressed when i first saw it..

http://cafe.daum.net/lineagemap - Map creators webpage, in korean or some other language with strange symbols..

That looks like a 404 error to me.

It isnt a 404, i clicked all links and somewhere i found something that might have been a download.. plus it says Ver5.0&Part2 in the top left corner and i think thats the latest version of the map.. anyway, since the attachment didnt work and its quite hard to DL the map from that page i hosted it myself..

www.myran.com/LineageVer5.w3m

Now it works. Probably it was just a short downtime.