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[Teukros]

This may be a case of me just missing it in the documentation again, so please try not to maul me if it really is.

I started in Ren'Py.  Those of you who aren't familiar, it's an engine built off Python for scripting visual novels.  I want to have VN-like scenes in my game, but I can't figure out how to customize the text box, nor do I know how to define characters without using actors.  Anyone have insight/links?

[Azrael]

If i understand right what you are trying to achieve i think you can use entity instead of actors, in depends on what exactly you need these "actors" to do.

About the the text box you can use a window to set your own graphics and you can place the text where you want using something like that in the actor/entity script:

Code: WME Script

1. this.SubtitlesPosRelative = false;
2. this.SubtitlesPosX = 70;
3. this.SubtitlesPosY = 704;
4. this.SubtitlesWidth = 884;
5. this.SubtitlesPosXCenter = false;

Obviously changing the coordinates as you want
If you search in the forum you should also find some post about that.

[anarchist]

The post that helped me the most when I wanted to make a custom dialogue window is this:
http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?topic=3033.0

As you will see from metamorphium's post, you can use an entity to act as a "Talk bot" and as Azrael also posted, you can change the subtitle configuration, including the position.