Typewriter!

[Hblade]

LCL I'm using this! X3

[lcl]

Great!

[DeltaLeeds]

AMAZING SCRIPT LCL!!!
I'm using this script for my next test thing, however customizing it seems a bit more difficult than I thought it would...
So... Whenever I keep trying to make the text come out slower when my game is 60 fps, it ends up breaking the script! Can you show me how to print the type each 2-3 frames instead of each frame? Thanks lcl, again great script! +1 for you!

[lcl]

AMAZING SCRIPT LCL!!!
I'm using this script for my next test thing, however customizing it seems a bit more difficult than I thought it would...
So... Whenever I keep trying to make the text come out slower when my game is 60 fps, it ends up breaking the script! Can you show me how to print the type each 2-3 frames instead of each frame? Thanks lcl, again great script! +1 for you!

Haha, thanks! This is so old, though. Pyrometal is the one you should thank, this code works exactly like his, and I wouldn't have been able to write this, without looking at his code back then
Anyway, for updating the printed text only every 2 or 3 frames, use this:

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if (counter < strlen(Speak) && frame % 2 == 0) //The second condition here only allows the code to be run if current frame number is divisible by 2 (like 2, 4, 6, 8, ...)
{
    type[counter] = Speak[counter];
    sprintf(text, type);
    counter ++;
}

[Zivouhr]

Cool. I'll take a look at it. Thanks Lcl and Pyrometal.

[DeltaLeeds]

AMAZING SCRIPT LCL!!!
I'm using this script for my next test thing, however customizing it seems a bit more difficult than I thought it would...
So... Whenever I keep trying to make the text come out slower when my game is 60 fps, it ends up breaking the script! Can you show me how to print the type each 2-3 frames instead of each frame? Thanks lcl, again great script! +1 for you!

Haha, thanks! This is so old, though. Pyrometal is the one you should thank, this code works exactly like his, and I wouldn't have been able to write this, without looking at his code back then
Anyway, for updating the printed text only every 2 or 3 frames, use this:

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if (counter < strlen(Speak) && frame % 2 == 0) //The second condition here only allows the code to be run if current frame number is divisible by 2 (like 2, 4, 6, 8, ...)
{
    type[counter] = Speak[counter];
    sprintf(text, type);
    counter ++;
}

Sorry Pyrometal! I forgot to thank you!
And so it's the strlen part we had to change? I changed everything which kinda ruined it, I thought of using mod but yeah, wrong parts to change. Does strlen count the amount of characters stored in speak, or the amount of characters in the text by the way? Works like a charm lcl! +1 for you!

Cool. I'll take a look at it. Thanks Lcl and Pyrometal.

With your amazing drawing and graphic skills you could make an awesome RPG with this script Ziv!

[lcl]

Sorry Pyrometal! I forgot to thank you!

Haha, he probably doesn't care, it's been ages since he was an active member

And so it's the strlen part we had to change? I changed everything which kinda ruined it, I thought of using mod but yeah, wrong parts to change.

It's not the strlen part you have to change, you have to add another condition to the if besides the strlen check. The && means a logical AND, so the if now has two conditions that have to be true in order for the code to be executed. And this code is using mod, the same exact behavior could be achieved by using the command:

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fmod(frame, 2)

Does strlen count the amount of characters stored in speak, or the amount of characters in the text by the way?

Yes, strlen returns the length of Speak. Also, strlen stands for string length.

Works like a charm lcl! +1 for you!

Great, thanks for the point!

[DeltaLeeds]

Yes, strlen returns the length of Speak. Also, strlen stands for string length.

Ah, what an awesome function! There are so many useful functions in C I have yet to know about. XD

Great, thanks for the point!

No, thank you for the code Lcl, and I hope that someday Pyrometal might raise from the grave of inactivity and see us still check his code out!

[Zivouhr]

Thanks Jonathang. I'll take a closer look at this code once I get some extra time this week. How are your games developing Jonathang? Nice to hear this code can help.
Looking forward to some news on LCL's games also.

[DeltaLeeds]

Thanks Jonathang. I'll take a closer look at this code once I get some extra time this week. How are your games developing Jonathang? Nice to hear this code can help.
Looking forward to some news on LCL's games also.

The game I'm making is kind off a bullet dodging game that uses Lcl's/Pyro's typewriter script. Looking pretty good so far! I might show the development in the forums later on!

[Zivouhr]

Sounds cool. Looking forward to seeing more.

[pyrometal]

Wow, I'm very suprised there are still semi-active users here, using this stuff!

[Zivouhr]

Wow, I'm very suprised there are still semi-active users here, using this stuff!

Hey Pyrometal. I'm pretty sure I've played some of the games you've offered created with Game Editor. Was one of them with the little sci fi character who gained different weapons and abilities as he traveled through a maze, made for small smart phones? I remember text dialog too. Cool game and design. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have to look up the titles again as it's been a year or so since I played them.

[pyrometal]

lol, can't remember them all!

My 2 most popular prototypes were Gelman and Mazeman. GEDs are available for download

[Turon]

Wow, I'm very suprised there are still semi-active users here, using this stuff!

Hey Pyrometal. I'm pretty sure I've played some of the games you've offered created with Game Editor. Was one of them with the little sci fi character who gained different weapons and abilities as he traveled through a maze, made for small smart phones? I remember text dialog too. Cool game and design. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have to look up the titles again as it's been a year or so since I played them.

Sounds intriguing, don't think it's any game I've tried unless your thinking of Game Over Land, it's one of Pyrometals lesser known projects, it would seem to resemble Cave Story though from what I've seen it's pretty incomplete though it does have something of a soundtrack and Pyro even built his own map editor for the project.