Changing the text color of one word, in 1 actor

[Hblade]

Ok, say I have this text,
Hi, hows it going, character name, how can I make it like this
Hi, hows it going, Character name?

[skydereign]

You can't do this unless you are using a canvas as your text display. I think if you look up RPG dialog, you will find it, not sure though. text actors cannot change text color, except for the entire text, which is not what you want.

[Hblade]

I seen the canvas thing, I liked it allot! but, it's way to complicated to use right now, because I dont feel like browsing through the code to find out how to do it.. hoever... if pyrometal will tell me how he did it :3

[pyrometal]

It's like Sky said, you need a canvas if you want everything to be in one actor... But you can also do this highlighting stuff with 2 text actors running in parallel with fancy formatting functions... One actor for normal color, and the other for highlights... I've done it before, so I know it's possible! Involves a bit of coding though (not as much as the canvas method) I might post a demo if you have enough interest!

[jimmynewguy]

ah this might be a little off topic, but it involves dialogues as well. I know you can save "text" variables (i forget the real name my bad) but I've always wondered how you call them back in text dialogue?

example since i suck at explaining things.....maybe the game is an old "ultima style" rpg and everything that happens is in a text at the bottom of the screen. If you attack something and do a variable's worth of damage how would you use like strcpy(info.text, "You did *dmg*"); where *dmg* is how much damage you did based on the variable.

[DST]

You can make a String variable or an Array of Strings and save and load them like any other variable.