Text bubbles outside creature scripts

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AuthorTopic: Text bubbles outside creature scripts
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, April 14 2007 10:58 Profile Homepage #0
Okay, this should be absolutely the last question I'll ask for this scenario.

How do I create a text bubble in a cutscene? I know that this has been done - see Bahssikava, with Legare's long soliloquys in iambic pentameter. However, Avernumscript only allows creatures or terrains to create text bubbles.

I'm also unable to find anything like a run_creature_script(short which_char, short which_state) call.

So, assuming you have a cutscene, and want a text bubble to appear, what do you do? Excuse me for not bothering to reverse-engineer Kel's Bahs cutscenes...

[ Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:58: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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Enraged Slith
Agent
Member # 27
 written Saturday, April 14 2007 11:03 Profile #1
text_bubble_on_char(41,"");
text_bubble_on_char(41,"Where's Bobin?");
force_instant_terrain_redraw();
pause(15);

text_bubble_on_char(41,"");
text_bubble_on_char(0,"Dead.");
force_instant_terrain_redraw();
pause(15);

text_bubble_on_char(0,"");
text_bubble_on_char(41,"Oh...");
force_instant_terrain_redraw();
pause(30);
Here's a bit of script from one of my scrapped scenarios. Just try to imagine a break after each "pause." This forum doesn't read them for some reason.
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Lazarus.
Lifecrafter
Member # 6193
 written Saturday, April 14 2007 11:10 Profile Homepage #2
You can put text bubbles on a character from any script, not just creature/terrain scripts. Use text_bubble_on_char() rather than create_text_bubble, and you can then use it in a town script.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, April 14 2007 11:12 Profile Homepage #3
Why the hell didn't I find that when searching for "text bubble" in the Appendix?

I must be getting tired and senile. Thanks very much, now I'm good to go.

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