Display Text as RPG. Letters appearing slowly?

Rubiyooo

Hello everybody.

I´m making a RPG Game. But when i want to display a text in a "comic bite" "sandwich". Appear sundenly all letters. This is not that i want to do. I would like to appear all letters slowly. As when you are writing a text.


For example in Final Fantasy. You need to press a button to continue reading.

My idea is to cut all letters and make a actor that spawn all letters in difference positions but it´s very hard and complicated.


Any idea?
Thanks you very much

921creative

I think what you are trying to do would consume way too much system resources. It works well to constrain numbers to their associated .png images because you can only have 10 numbers (0 - 9). But for letter images that replace letters in a block of text, you're talking a ton of constraints and rules that change images. If it's important for your text to fade in, just create one .png image for each block of text, then interpolate the alpha from 0 to 1 slowly.

mynameisace

Hey Buddy,

I think I understand what you mean and have made you a demo. Dependant on what your text boxes look like, you could do it this way:

http://mynameisace.com/files/GSTextScroll.zip

If your text box's background is more complicated looking, there is only one way to do it but it would be painstakingly fiddly and awful on resources.

Ace

CodeCode

LoL mynameisance XD that really is a good idea, so simple but usefull.
I was thinking a much to complicated way that cost a lot of resourches, now i got the idea on how to improve your idea and make it a bit more better.
THX

mynameisace

Yeah, if it want to be a letter at a time instead of scrolling, all you have to do is instead of interpolate just put every 0.2 seconds change attribute self.size.width to self.size.width - 20 (or whatever size the text is) and it will appear letter by letter.

Ace

Rubiyooo

Thanks you very much ACE!!
With your demo i understand now all!!
It´s fucking stupid and awesome at the same time!!

Thanks dear friends
Regards!! ^^

mynameisace

Yup, a bit of creative thinking outside the box and pretty much anything is do-able

Ace