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Hi i was wondering how to make the text dialogues for the talking for the ppl in the game?
Any ideas or code for it?

you could make it so that the text is part of an animation, and when the player presses Z for example, it does

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animindex+=1;

meaning that the animation will change to the next one.
the text has to be seperate, or actually part of the textbox's animation

any other ideas

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6828&p=48912&hilit=text+box#p48912

does this help?

Hey
THanks it does
any more ideas

I usually do it this way:

I have actors TalkBg, Text and Talk1.
And I have two global variables, speaking and talk.

TalkBg - create actor- script editor:

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VisibilityState("Event Actor", DISABLE);


Draw actor - script editor:

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if (speech == 1)
{
    VisibilityState("Event Actor", ENABLE);
    if (transp > 0)
    {
        transp -= .05;
    }
}
if (speech == 0)
{
    if (transp < 1)
    {
        transp += .05;
    }
    if (transp == 1)
    {
        VisibilityState("Event Actor", DISABLE);
    }
}


Text - create actor - script editor:

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speaking = 0;
talk = 0;
sprintf(text, " ");
VisibilityState("Event Actor", DISABLE);


key down - key that you want to change text - repeat: disable - script editor:

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if (speaking == 1)
{
    talk += 1;
}


Talk1 - create actor - script editor:

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EventDisable("Event Actor", EVENTANIMATION);


collision - any side of main actor - script editor:

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if(can_speak == 1)
{
    speaking = 1;
    talk = 1;
    VisibilityState("Text", ENABLE);
    EventDisable("Main Actor", EVENTKEYDOWN);
    EventEnable("Event Actor", EVENTANIMATION);
}
if(can_speak == 0)
{
    DestroyActor("Event Actor");
}



Draw actor - script editor:

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switch (talk)
{
    case 1:
    speech = 1;
    sprintf(Text.text, "Here comes what you want your actor say first."); //first words
    break;

    case 2:
    speech = 1;
    sprintf(Text.text, "Here comes what you want your actor say second."); //second words
    break;

    case 3:
    //This is for hiding the text
    sprintf(Text.text, " ");
    talk = 0;
    speaking = 0;
    speech = 0;
    DestroyActor("Event Actor");
    VisibilityState("Text", DISABLE);
    EventEnable("Main actor", EVENTKEYDOWN);
    break;
}


And then i create actors like Talk2, Talk3, and this way for other talkings...
This is my way of doing it, not best but works.