Changing the speed of the Show Text command

[LucaBicono]

About half a year ago, I read about a RGSS3 script call for VX Ace that made it possible to change the speed at which text was drawn in the Show Text command window, so that the text wouldn't just pop up one directly after the other. Since I was using a Text SE script (playing a sound whenever a new character was drawn), I found it invaluable, since I could finally emulate speech without continually blasting my ears with the sound effect, similarly to how games like Earthbound and Undertale gave their characters personality through sound effects that emulated speech.


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Unfortunately, with the release of MV, I haven't been able to find a plugin that does this, and going through the main .js files of my project myself has yielded no results thus far.


tl;dr I'm looking for a plugin that will slow down how quickly the game draws text in the Show Text command window. I am using Yanfly's message plugins, and I know about the \w[x] command, but I feel like that would be far too time-consuming to place the command after every single letter in what is going to be a relatively text-heavy game.


If anyone can lend a helping hand, I will be happy to provide credit, a link to your website/blog/whatever else you may use, and in the event that I decide to go commercial, I will provide a free copy of the final game.

 

[LucaBicono]

Bumpin'.

 

[JLowther]

I'd love to know the answer to this as well.


I'm going to be using full voice acting and would prefer a way to pace the lines better.

 

[LucaBicono]

Bump-arooni.

 

[LucaBicono]

Bump-badum.

 

[LucaBicono]

Bumpity.

 

[Koru-chan]

Now, are you looking for a plugin to mess with character draw speed because that's actually what you want to edit?  Or are you wanting to do it so you can have a text sound without it repeating at a crazy rate?  Because if it's the latter, Yanfly has an extension to their Message Core that lets you not only make the beeping text noises (or whatever SE you want to set), but it lets you choose how many characters it should wait before making the next noise.  So if per-character is too often for you, you can set it to sound every 3-4 characters or whatever you want.

 

[LucaBicono]

Now, are you looking for a plugin to mess with character draw speed because that's actually what you want to edit?  Or are you wanting to do it so you can have a text sound without it repeating at a crazy rate?  Because if it's the latter, Yanfly has an extension to their Message Core that lets you not only make the beeping text noises (or whatever SE you want to set), but it lets you choose how many characters it should wait before making the next noise.  So if per-character is too often for you, you can set it to sound every 3-4 characters or whatever you want.

Definitely looking to change character draw speed, since even if I weren't using a Text SE plugin, the default draw speed that MV and VX Ace both seem to use has always looked terrible and almost overwhelming as I try to playtest.

 

[Koru-chan]

To be honest, I'd like to see someone make a plugin where you can set a speed or even set it to instantly show all text in the message at once.  Bonus points if it had the option to let you put controls in it in the options menu for the player to decide.  Hoping someone fills your request in some form though.

 

[Kino]

I was working on something  similar.


It places a wait command between each character  placed on the screen in the message window.


Hope this helps: SlowText 

 

[LucaBicono]

I was working on something  similar.


It places a wait command between each character  placed on the screen in the message window.


Hope this helps: SlowText 

Just tried it out, and it works great! Thank you very much!