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[BEHEMOTH]

I am using a window to show a close up of an item when you "look-at" it in the inventory.
How can I displace the actor's speech caption (to the bottom of the screen, say) whilst the window is displayed? I thought it would just be a matter of changing some x/y variables (like actor.speechx, for example) but I can't figure it out. Any help?

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[Mnemonic]

Hi, you can use a little trick to achieve that. Create a simple invisible entity (i.e. an entity with transparent graphics), then position the entity to the bottom center of the screen. Then, instead of calling actor.Talk in the script, call the Talk method of the invisible entity and the caption will appear at the bottom of the screen (or anywhere you place that dummy entity).

[BEHEMOTH]

Cheers!
I was actually using that method already ( )as a temporary measure but thought there might be a more efficient way of doing it. Maybe you could add that to the wishlist?
In the meantime, this way works fine. Thanks again.

[Mnemonic]

Sorry, I didn't mean to underestimate you
Mmmm, ok, it's gonna be easy to add.

[creatorbri]

Personally, I think the best system is one that would allow as easily for static-location text (i.e. if I wanted my captions to stay at the bottom of the screen) as for adjusting the position of actor-relative text (i.e. adjusting the height between the character's head and his/her speech captions).

For instance, maybe you could set some properties as follows... note that this is just a loose example, I can't remember how you would actually get the actor's position:

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actor.SpeechX = actor.X;
actor.SpeechY = actor.Y - 100;or

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actor.SpeechX = 400;
actor.SpeechY = 580;

[Mnemonic]

I added three attributes, Game.SubtitlesPosRelative, Game.SubtitlesPosX and Game.SubtitlesPosY. When the SubtitlesPosRelative is set to false, the X and Y attributes determine the absolute subtitle position on screen. I hope it will be enough.

The new WME build will be released later this week.

[BEHEMOTH]

Wow. Quick work!
Thanks Mnemonic!