Dialog 3.0 (powerful RPG dialog engine)

[pyrometal]

Hello GE users!

It's pyro again back with a 3rd edition of my Dialog engine. This version far exceeds the previous 2 versions in terms of functionality and usuabilty. Here is a list of the features its has.

FEATURES:
(1) Formatted text that types itself out
(2) Text pauses
(3) Text scrolling
(4) Answers + Answer selection
(5) Text highlighting
(6) Variable line display
(7) "Theatre Mode" (blackens all but text, for use in cutscenes)
(8) Key Press Fast-Forward
(9) Line scrolling with arrow keys.
(10) Easier formatting than previous versions.
(11) Text following
(12) GETTING DIALOG FROM FILES (best feature)
(13) etc!

Dialog3.zip

source files
UPDATED dec 26, 2009
(+ 5 dowloads previously)

(38.97 KiB) Downloaded 608 times

A very large amount of work went into the making of this engine. If used, credit would be appreciated! I got really lazy and unmotivated while writting info on how to use it because I know this is not going to be really used by anyone except maybe myself and Bee-Ant (which asked me to make this dating back several months ago)

Anyways, enjoy!

[Romol]

Excellent! Thanks !

[Bee-Ant]

Just like my earlier comment...
"what the hell?"

[pyrometal]

Just like my earlier comment...
"what the hell?"

haha Glad you like it! Please report any bugs you find! I know one or two that can easily happen but can easily be avoided also. Critics are welcome!

[MrJolteon]

GED? I can't download it because I don't use my old computer right now( ) but it looks impressive!
ETID oops I mean EDIT:
I just wanted to check it out so I did that on my new computer(and also installed GE )

[ST3v3nw1l]

Cool your a Genuis
I didnt find any bugs
And its amazing!!!
Im going to use it in my new game!

[pyrometal]

Im going to use it in my new game!

Awesome

[Bee-Ant]

Im going to use it in my new game!

Not only you

[zygoth]

Wow, I really like this. The ability to write out stuff in a file rather than program it in GE will be very useful. Not to mention being able to customize the background and font. This ought to be stickied or put in a special section on the site for useful functions. I also think I will use this in one of my upcoming games, probably with a little tweaking. Thanks for putting this up!

Zygo

[pyrometal]

Customizing the looks can take a lot of work but is entirely possible! You will need to change the value of many #define statements according to the new graphical dimensions. If you need help doing this, do ask!

[Bee-Ant]

There's a lag when loading the dialog. Trying to fix it now...
In java, reading external text can be done just by

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text(loadStrings("dialog.txt")[index],x,y);

Pyro,do you work on other tool than GE?

[pyrometal]

There's a lag when loading the dialog. Trying to fix it now...

Not sure why... If you mean when trying to run the game, I get this also.

Pyro,do you work on other tool than GE?

-DevC++
-Graphics Gale
-ModPlug tracker
-Starting Game Maker (not abandoning GE, no worries)
-And many smaller tools too

[DST]

I can see from all the script that this was a lot of work to make, and it shows. Excellent text demo...it should become a permanent part of the GE engine.

[Bee-Ant]

-DevC++
-Graphics Gale
-ModPlug tracker
-Starting Game Maker (not abandoning GE, no worries)
-And many smaller tools too

I mean programing tool. As well as the programing language.

[pyrometal]

- C/C++ with DevC++
- Java with no specific tool
- Assembly language with CodeWarrior