How would I make the other characters in my game talk?

[lilmuleman214]

How would I make the other characters in my game talk, when I go to them?

[pixelpoop]

How about using the distance function on a key down event to determine if your player is close enough to a certain character. If it is then create an actor with the text you want to display in it.

[arcreamer]

hey pixel, whats the distant function?

[lilmuleman214]

yah, it sounds cool. How Do you do that?

[pixelpoop]

it looks like this: distance( x, y, x, y);

You could use it on a key down event to create a text actor, something like this:

if ( distance(player.x, player.y, character_01.x, character_01.y)<30){
CreateActor("text_box", "script_01", "view", "(none)", 0, 0, true);}

it reads, if the the distance between player and character_01 is less than 30 pixels then create actor text_box and goto the animation script_01.

[lilmuleman214]

Do you have to make any certain actors to get it to work, like a textbox? or things like that? And are there any events that you have to add to certain actors to get it to work?
And one last question....Where would I put that code you just showed me?

[pixelpoop]

you have to create your text actor. then change the name and animation where it says create actor. Here is a quick example.

[lilmuleman214]

you have to create your text actor. then change the name and animation where it says create actor. Here is a quick example.

thanks

[lilmuleman214]

ok I unsterstand how to it now, but if I wanted to add more then one of these how would I do That?