Big text display?

[ElMagnifico]

RPG Maker is a great little tool, and I used RPG Maker VX Ace for a while.

But one thing that bugs me immensely is the tiny text boxes. You are limited to short lines of text. Or you can use scrolling text which scrolls too fast or too slow and doesn't work well.
I know I played a few RPG maker games that don't seem to have some limitation. They either edited the .exe or used some fancy script.

Can anyone give me advice or point me in the right direction?

 

[Kes]

'General Discussion' is for broad themes relating to making games. "How do I...?" (implementation) questions belong in the Support forum for the engine you are using.

[move]RPGMaker VX Ace[/move]

 

[Heirukichi]

Do you want to edit the number of maximum displayed lines? If so it is quite simple. You only have to change the value that the visible_line_number method returns in your Window_GameMessage class. By default it is like this:

def visible_line_number
    return 4 #you can change this value to be any nymber of lines
end

Just remember that if you modify that the editor will still show maximum 4 lines so you have to add your messages in a different way. One way to do it is the following.

text = "line1\nline2\nline3\nline4\nline5."
$game_message.add(text)

Using that in a script call produces the following output:

line1
line2
line3
line4
line5.

Of course, to have all these lines in a single box you have to set the visible_line_number to 5.

 

[bgillisp]

There's also Yanfly's message script which you can set the # of rows by a variable. You have to use batch entry to make it work in the editor, but it will work.

 

[ElMagnifico]

Thanks.... but isn't Yanfly code for RPG Maker VM?

Also, can you clarify that batch entry trick?

 

[Roninator2]

https://yanflychannel.wordpress.com/rmvxa/core-scripts/ace-message-system/

I believe bgillisp means that you have to change the variable before the message every time if you want to make only one bigger and others normal.

 

[ElMagnifico]

I'm not talking about size of text, I'm talking about the number of letters/words displayed at once on screen.


EDIT: Nevermind, found a good tutorial!

 

[bgillisp]

What I was talking about was the number of words on the screen. The only way to increase that is to make the message box display more lines. Otherwise, the only way to change it IS to change the size of the text. So you either want more lines or you want the size to be changed, as there is no other way to do it.