Can text be displayed a letter at a time?

Fodder76

I think I know the answer to this already, but I thought I'd ask.

Is there anyway to have text display very quickly a letter at a time? Rather than just slapping it all up on the screen, it would be nice if it appeared very quickly. I'm sure you all know what I mean.

Anyway to do it, or fake it? Thanks.

jonmulcahy

yes
just have your display text rule display an attribute instead

then on the actor ad a rule that increments a number by 1 every .5 seconds

then have a bunch of rules:

if self.Count = 1
display text "this"

if self.Count = 2
display.text "this is"

if self.Count = 3
display.text "this is a"

if self.Count = 4
display.text "this is a test"

somethinglike that anyways

tenrdrmer

Something like this but only one letter at a time instead of one line?



If you don't want to use the default fonts. you will have to do an animation like this and it will mean a whole lot of images being added to your game.

Edit:
And you can set each letter to appear as fast as 30 frames per second (or 30 letters per second)

Fodder76

Thanks guys, these give me some ideas. I'll give them a try to see how cumbersome it is. I've got a fair amount of text in my game so I'm not sure if its worth all of the effort to do it this way. But its good to know that its possible. Thanks a lot!

Chris

StormyStudio

maybe animate a block of colour revealing your text...again would need some testing and depend on where your text is being displayed...

Be great if we could animate masks on our imagines from within GameSalad.

Photics

Fodder76 said:
Thanks guys, these give me some ideas. I'll give them a try to see how cumbersome it is. I've got a fair amount of text in my game so I'm not sure if its worth all of the effort to do it this way. But its good to know that its possible. Thanks a lot!

Create them as individual actors
Create a game counter
Each actor changes from alpha zero, to a visible color, based on a rule.

If game counter is 1
change alpha color to 1

Next actor has the same thing except...
If game counter is 2