make cutscene stonescript blah blahs

[wooden timber]

It would be so much easier than just making a speech bubble and repeating it for every character the guy has to say

I wanna make pallas say “fuck you” when he dies

[summer nacelle]

So what you want is a script that you input text to, and it outputs a correctly sized speech bubble you can draw on screen?

[fickle zephyr]

Sounds funny enough

[wooden timber]

Heres an example:

(Foe).talk.(message),(distance to be activated, optional)

Skeletimmy.talk.”ouch!”,10

[sharp nebula]

@wooden timber this can already be done in stonescript as is
just gotta setup the functions

[wooden timber]

Yeah i dont wanna have to draw a speech bubble

Im saying make it easier

[sharp nebula]

nope you gotta do that yourself but all the tools already exist

[wooden timber]

So i can put in 3 or so lines to make pallas say “fuck you”

Im on mobile i cant import

[sharp nebula]

nope needs more but all the tools exist for that

[wooden timber]

One speech bubble takes about 400 lines

I tested it myself

[sharp nebula]

so you do know how to do it, now just do it

no one is gonna do it for you and such a niche request isn't something the dev will do in stonescript language

[wooden timber]

No im saying i dont wanna have to draw 400 lines when the limit is 2000

[bleak flint]

400? Maybe you can optimize it a bit

[sharp nebula]

2000 isn't the limit

[wooden timber]

Yeah it is i swear

[sharp nebula]

it's something like 40k

[wooden timber]

Ok thats a bit better

[sharp nebula]

tisnt

[wooden timber]

No you have to draw one speech bubble for every character the speech has

“Fuck you” would be 8 speech bubbles

One character worth of speech bubble is about 8 lines

[bleak flint]

Nah there's def some optimization there

[sharp nebula]

not if you do it procedurally

[wooden timber]

Wdym

[wooden timber]

Whats the official way then

[elfin ermine]

how tf do you take 400 lines to do that

should be like 30 max

[wooden timber]

One speech bubble per character

If you want that transition thats in the main game

So “fuck you” is 8 speech bubbles

[elfin ermine]

why is it one speech bubble per character

[bleak flint]

Are you using the string functions?

Like string.sub()

[wooden timber]

No im doing it one character then speech bubble for character 2

Then speech bubble for character 3

And so on and so forth

[spiral flicker]

define a string with the message, use string.break to turn it into array, define a new array, use a for loop to push first n characters into new array, use string.join to get new substring, print it

[wooden timber]

“Please leave me alone stonehead” is 31 characters

[elfin ermine]

do string.sub like citrion said to get 1 char at a time

[bleak flint]

That's one way sure

[wooden timber]

Whats that

[elfin ermine]

read the manual

[wooden timber]

Ok one minute

[remote elk]

You can use it to get any numbers of characters in a row, at any starting point.

[wooden timber]

Ok that changes a lot