Text to pictures

polimerjones

I saw a video on gshelper.com where they were taking a number for the current score and using pictures to make a scrolling score.

I would like to do the same thing but with text.

In my game it chooses a random word but instead of just using "display text" i would like to have it display a picture for each letter. (i have tiles for a-z that will be the pictures)

for example the random word would be "bark" and the tiles with the letters B A R K would come out.

jamie_c

I think this is what you want:

polimerjones

Kinda. Except that the word needed to be spelled is random. This video requires that you type in the word before hand.

So how would i get a random word like "bark" to go to a table and have "b" in column 1 row 1, "a" in column 2 row 1.....ect

thats the only way the video suggestion would work.

jamie_c

How random is the word? What I mean is you have a list of them somewhere right? So build the works in the table and then choose the column at random, then you'd have your words built in tables picked at random.

polimerjones

wont work. i have over 5000 words. i dont want to add them all to a table.

jamie_c

Well it's not that it won't work, it's that you don't want to do it. LOL

Besides that solution I'm not sure what to offer.

zoope

@polimerjones Tables are really fast mate, it may take some initial effort to create a table, but it will be well worth the simplicity in terms of logic later on.
You can easily create a csv file in a spreadsheet program and import it as a table in GS.

jonmulcahy

wont work. i have over 5000 words. i dont want to add them all to a table.

how else did you think you were going to add the words to the game?

polimerjones

i have them all in a table but i didnt want to have to put each letter in a different column. though excel has a nifty feature that did it for me. thanks for the help peoples!