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

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.

hey pixel, whats the distant function?

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

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.

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?

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

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

thanks

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