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[gi-ryuu]

Hello. Im new and Ive been trying my best at a rpg type game :3 Though Ive hit a blockroad o: I need to know how to make text appear when you keytouch (near a certain actor), then dissapear when you click the same key.

Also it would be helpfull to know how to keep the player from moving especially at certain instances :3 (ex the text is up)

kthanksabunch

[Hyperyon]

I was searching the forum for the answer and came across this old topic. I also hit the same blockroad.

[Game A Gogo]

try dilo dude's tutorial in advance topic.

[Hyperyon]

Pigs will fly first before I understand..lol

[Game A Gogo]

me too
but try putting the pauseon(); in the script and pauseoff();.

[Hyperyon]

pause?! that makes it even more complicated

[Hyperyon]

I wish DiloDude can make a um, recorded tutorial like the ones in G.E.

[frodo]

on the actor that you want text to pop up on, put key down, create actor ("text"). then on your text actor put key down, destroy actor, event actor. It's that simple!

[Hyperyon]

OOOH! And when the main player isnt near the actor with text I disable the keydown event? So I can have texts for each actor.

[relaxis]

You'll probably have to script your actors to move until a certain key is pressed - display the text and then keep moving

- psuedo code
<pre>

actortextmove()
{

while (not keypressed)
{rand 1 -4
if 1 - up
if 2 - down
if 3 - left
if 4 - right}

else

while (key pressed)
{display textbox}

loop actortextmove();

[Hyperyon]

Ah right! Now, is it possible to keep a keydown event disabled from the begining?

[relaxis]

I'm not really sure. If the syntax for the scripting language is similar to C or C++ then i guess it could be something like (!keypress) = which means literally "when key is NOT (not = !) pressed" - ask someone who knows the GE script better than me though.

IE - look it up in the script reference.

[Hyperyon]

Thanks for nudge guys!