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[mRax]

Good morning! I have one question The situation is in item "notebook", player have to read some notes to solve quest successfully. How can I print these notes before notebook sprite entity? (sprite entities for words/sentences aren't desired) Also I need in the fade-in effect: notes aren't showen quickly (at the moment), but each word are written letter-to-letter slowly...

The simple solution is in usage window with many captions, buttons or edits... But maybe there are pretty and more "unversal" way, aren't there?

[Mnemonic]

A window is definitely the way to go. You don't need "many" captions, you can use just one big static control and programatically change its .Text property to add one letter at a time.

[mRax]

Hi! Some questions

1. For example, string table considers of such line:

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NOTE_000 Day 4. Well, I think it's inhabitted islandIn the game I use

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var temp_static=note_window.GetControl("page0");
temp_static.Text="/NOTE_000/";The result text is definitely "/NOTE_000/" not "Day 4..." But when I create window from file

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STATIC{
...
TEXT = "/NOTE_000/"
...
} result text is "Day 4...". What's wrong with temp_static.Text?

2. Is there something like #10#13 (Pascal) or "\n" (C)?
I need to type one string

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Day 4.

Well,..instead of

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Day 4. Well,..
3. The last trouble is in game use one font only. Those .font lines don't change anything

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;FACE = "Arial"
FILENAME = "fonts\MyFont.ttf"
CHARSET = 1The game always use strange standard system font. Yeah, BOLD and ITALIC properties is operational, but why game doesn't load MyFont.ttf? Or "Arial" font?

[Mnemonic]

What's wrong with temp_static.Text?

In this case you'll need to explicitly translate the string (the automatic translation only happens when loading the window from file).

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temp_static.Text = Game.ExpandString("/NOTE_000/");


2. Is there something like #10#13 (Pascal) or "\n" (C)?

In scripts use "~n", in string table the translators can use the pipe character ("|").

3. The last trouble is in game use one font only. Those .font lines don't change anything

You need to specify the typeface name (FACE = "something"), that is the logical name of the font.

[mRax]

Thanks

[adonf]

Thanks, too. I spent a lot of time looking for this function in the documentation this morning (maybe it should be mentionned in the page about localization)

[Mnemonic]

Yes, that's a good point. I'll add it.

[mRax]

Hi again, I'm sorry, but I don't really understand, how fonts are worked Can someone give me a little "sample"? For example, I used window in data package

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WINDOW{
  X = 0
  Y = 0
  WIDTH = 1280
  HEIGHT = 1024
  NAME = "notebook"
  FONT = "fonts\note.font"
  SCRIPT = "scenes\items\notebook\scr\notebook.script"
  VISIBLE = FALSE
  STATIC{
    NAME = "page0"
    TEXT = ""
    TEXT_ALIGN = "left"
    VERTICAL_ALIGN = "top"
    ;BACK = "ui_elements\but_normal.image"
    FONT = "fonts\note.font"
    X = 130
    Y = 209
    WIDTH = 440
    HEIGHT = 580
    VISIBLE = TRUE
  }
}with note.font in second localization package

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TTFONT{
  SIZE = 23.8
  FACE = "Arial"
  FILENAME = "fonts\arial.ttf"
  BOLD = FALSE
  ITALIC = FALSE
  UNDERLINE = FALSE
  STRIKE = FALSE
  CHARSET = 1
  COLOR { 0, 0, 0 }
  ALPHA = 255
  LAYER{
    OFFSET_X = 0
    OFFSET_Y = 0
    COLOR { 0, 0, 0 }
    ALPHA = 255
  }
}Maybe the trouble is in separate packages? (fonts isn't in primary data package, but in another)

[Mnemonic]

I believe the above should work. Unless you're running the game from *compiled* packages. In that case the TTF files need to be stored directly in game directory, not inside the packages.