How would you do this: diary pages

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Kinda a stupid question...

A project I'm working on utilizes diaries you find around a mansion. I wanted to allow more interactivity by allowing the player to flip through the pages with arrow keys, letting them backtrack to a given page without having to go to the end without reopening it.

Rather than use normal text boxes, I was planning on doing this by showing pictures that you can switch between using the arrow keys. However, I'm having trouble doing this by way of conditional branches, in that the pages won't switch. I only have branches set for the left and right keys; do I need to set them for the other keys too?

Honestly, does anyone have a better suggestion of pulling something like this off? Again, I'd rather not rely on text boxes, but I'm open to suggestions!

 

[Andar]

The problem with the conditional branch key cheks is that they only check the key in the exact frame the branch is processed - you need to place them in a loop that wait until a key is pressed to work (unless the player is really really fast and lucky to press the key in the correct frame (60 frames = 1 sec).

A better option would be to use one of the journal scripts, there are several available (encyclopedia scripts might have that added function, you might check them as well)