[Solved] Creating unskippable text

[Panda]

I've been working on a title sequence which is timed to the background music.

The problem is that the text is skippable with enter, ruining the background synchronization with the sequence and the music.

Is there are way to disable enter-skipping?

 

[Sindaine]

Hey Gentlepanda,

The only way I know how to do this is putting in the "wait" symbols in the text area it's self. IE: \| waits for a second, \. waits for .25 of a second etc. I tested it with 3 \|\|\| and the text box waited 3 seconds before I could hit enter. It may not be easy to time it with music this way, but it's an option.

There also may be a way to script something to do this, but I'm not that experienced with Ruby Coding yet.

Hope it helps,

Sindaine

 

[Panda]

Hey Gentlepanda,

The only way I know how to do this is putting in the "wait" symbols in the text area it's self. IE: \| waits for a second, \. waits for .25 of a second etc. I tested it with 3 \|\|\| and the text box waited 3 seconds before I could hit enter. It may not be easy to time it with music this way, but it's an option.

There also may be a way to script something to do this, but I'm not that experienced with Ruby Coding yet.

Hope it helps,

Sindaine

Tried the wait commands, but the text is still skippable. When I press enter, it will just skip all the waiting and finish the text.

 

[Galv]

Not sure how to do it without scripts. You'd think it'd be possible.

Well, add this to your script list and change the number in $game_switches[1] to be the switch ID you want to use. Turn that switch ON to make messages unskippable.

class Window_Message < Window_Base  alias galv_gpanda_update_show_fast update_show_fast  def update_show_fast    return if $game_switches[1]    galv_gpanda_update_show_fast  endend

 

[Panda]

Not sure how to do it without scripts. You'd think it'd be possible.

Well, add this to your script list and change the number in $game_switches[1] to be the switch ID you want to use. Turn that switch ON to make messages unskippable.

Works great! Thank you!   

 

[Liak]

Can't you use wait commands and then \^ (which closes the message box)? I believe(!) this makes it impossible to skip the text with Enter. Try it.

 

[Galv]

\^ makes the message close automatically once this code is reached.

\! will stop displaying text at the point you put this code in and wait for the player to press a button before continuing to display the text.

\. and \| will wait when the message gets to these codes

I don't see anything that makes the text unskippable. The fast forward feature will still work and skip the displaying of text letter by letter up until these symbols.

 

[Besus]

Not sure if something is done different, but I just do the following:

MESSAGE TEXT

\^ \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

This will keep the message open for the desired amount of time (designtaed by the \|) and then the message closes. The player cannot skip it or fast-forward through it.

 

[Galv]

The words "MESSAGE TEXT" in your example will display one letter at a time unless you press a button and then it will skip that typing of letters out... so the text can still be skipped, you're just then waiting before allowing the player to close the window.

 

[Besus]

A-ha, then it must the fact it's on an autorun event for my introduction cutscene (locking the player from interacting with it) that keeps it from being fast forwarded.

Well if you don't want to mess with scripts and keep it from being passed, you could always just do that. 

 

[Galv]

Nope, Autorun doesn't stop button pressing in message boxes either

I'm really not sure how you're doing it...

 

[Cartridge]

It is impossible by default, without a script, all messages are skipable.

 

[Besus]

To confirm what Galv said, yes, I can still skip it when I put it in a new project.

I copied over the only 2 scripts that would affect the message system but I can still skip it. So I'm not sure how I'm doing it in my current one either...

 

[NPC]

Well, I'd use the XS Credits script, which can be found in the forums. It allows you to create text that is unskippable, that can wait for a while, fade in and out...and add a background! It's completely editable to go with music and a background.

 

[Cartridge]

Or just use a custom message system.

 

[Panda]

Figured I should put the [solved] tag in, since this has been solved since Post 5.

 

[Fomar0153]

[solved]


Actually we use [ closed ]


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