In Game Text

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Is there a way to change the text of a text actor without making a new actor? And also, how can you make the game choose a certain line of text at random from a whole list of pre-made texts every time you press a button? If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated

[Hblade]

There's many ways ^.^

1, is to use the set text command (without coding) 2 is coding You can use t he following :3

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sprintf(text, "Text here");


In sprintf you can also call the ammounts of variables by doing this

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sprintf(text, "Hello %d %s %i", x, text_variable, integer);


Replace x, text_var, and integer with the names of the variables your using. %d calls uh... just like %i really, it gives you the value of the variable.

%s gives you the value of a text variable so if you hav e your player customizable name, %s will call his name after the word "Hello" according to the sprintf command



The other commands you can use are:

strcpy
strcat

strcpy is used just like sprintf, but I'm not sure if strcpy can use the %d, s, and i and stuff like that.
strcat appends text to the current text you already have. For example if your text says "Hello", use

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strcat(text, "My name is bob");


And then it'll say "Hello my name is bob".

Hope this helped

[GuybrushThreepwood]

I'm uh... not really good at scripting, so I barely know what your talking about
I get the changing the text with the set text thing, but I don't get the picking the random line of text from like 40 different ones part. And also, I should have mentioned earlier, I want the used line of text to be destroyed after it's use. How would I do that?

[Hblade]

Not sure thats even possible, sorry

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Well then how about just picking one of 5 texts at random>

[Hblade]

I dont think GE supports selecting characters from a text actor yet. Perhaps in the new version, sorry

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Thats OK, thanks anyway

EDIT: I maybe need to reword my question, I don't mean making up its own text, but randomly selecting a couple of text actor's I've already made and bringing them to a certain spot or something like that

[Hblade]

Oh I think I know what you mean Yeah use the MoveTo function for that ^.^