It was inevitable

Posted by Tasm on Dec. 27, 2006, 2:42 p.m.

Yeah, so I got back into using GM. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

The truth is, I needed to get back into game-making to keep my mind off of other things… for example, love.

Right now, I'm making a top-down game that stars me and my friends. That gives me plenty of motivation to work on it.

The only problem I'm having is a dialogue system… I got it working pretty much perfectly, I just want a way to add pauses in between words.

You see, I have it set up like a typical RPG text box thing - You see the speaker's name, then their dialogue is typed, letter by letter. I tried to change the system so that if I added a "|" in the dialogue string, the script would recognize it, add a slightly longer delay between typing, then delete it out of the string(so that it isn't displayed on screen). So far, no avail.

I suppose I'll figure something out. I always manage to do so, it seems.

Here's looking at GM.

<i>orta recens quam pura nites</i>

"Newly risen, how brightly you shine"

Comments

Josea 17 years, 11 months ago

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The truth is, I needed to get back into game-making to keep my mind off of other things… for example, love.
That sounds quite familiar…oh, I know, that was what I did.

thernz 17 years, 11 months ago

Love made me put a fictional pet crab of Hugo Chavez in my game as a boss.

*shakes head

That was awesome. I love love.

DFortun81 17 years, 11 months ago

When you draw the text, are you using string_replace_all(str,"|","");?

That's what I use.

Tasm 17 years, 11 months ago

@DFortun81: No, I use string_delete after the delay…

would you care to elaborate further?

Kenon 17 years, 11 months ago

Let me see your script. I have an example of a textbox that keeps the game moving, so I know how to do these things.

leemcd56 17 years, 11 months ago

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Yeah, so I got back into using GM. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?
Yeah, we all watch Family Guy. Well, some of us anyway.

Tasm 17 years, 11 months ago

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Yeah, we all watch Family Guy

*grins*