Way to make text paragraph

wsuhoops

Is there a way to make text go in a normal text box instead of the one long line its always in. This is extremely frustarating.

Thejackaspen

What I did for my instructions in my game was type everything out in Gimp (or any other software like photoshop), then saved as a .png, then inserted the instructions as an image that was already formatted, and you can have a lot more control about how it looks like too when you do this.

madmassey

There are a couple of ways. You can just press ALT + Enter in the area you're entering the text, and it will hop down to the next line. This is very difficult to format, especially if you plan on revising the text over time. So I recommend you have a text variable for each line in the paragraph. For instance -

Text Box Line 1 - "Hello, good sir! I'd like to invite"
Text Box Line 2 - "you to the opportunity of a"
Text Box Line 3 - "lifetime!

Then you'd append these into a single Display Text behavior, like -

Text Box Line 1.."\n"..Text Box Line 2.."\n"..Text Box Line 3

You're going to want to make sure this collective text doesn't go over about 150 characters, because Gamesalad has an issue on some IOS devices where this displays as a white box instead of text. You could always use a different Display Text behavior for each line, but this is bad too because Gamesalad displays each line of text slightly differently, lol. So it would look weird.

Also keep in mind that you're going to want to center the text, because left / right align doesn't work consistently. And that your Display Text behavior is going to be centered around the size of your actor / background image, so size it accordingly.

heathcc

I suggest using images created in another application for text as well. The text capabilities in GS are pretty limited and it doesn't stylize well.