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So I was wondering if there was any way I could code a working textbox that comes up in different locations on the screen, rather than just at the bottom. I wanted it to move around and act like a comic book dialogue bubble, but I'm a newbie, so I have no idea how to do this. Anybody got any ideas, or know how to do this efficiently?

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style.html

Style properties are probably what you are looking for. It may seem a bit daunting at first, but don't get discouraged.

Try this TextBox tutorial. It may point you in the direction you're looking for.
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Erotic Visions ~ Visual Novels

• What kind of Fiction should YOU Write? [Quiz Game] ~ PG
• The Erotic Story Generator ~ R-18
• The Visitor ~ Classic Horror/Vampire ~ PG-13

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Thanks, I've been over the text box tutorial's before, I guess I'll try messing around with the x and y anchors, see if I can get it to move.

Another thing you can do is simply put the textbox where you want it by making it into a png the same size as your game, then merely adjust the padding for the text.

For example:

The image is 1024x768, the size of my game, however the entire left side is transparent.

This is the code I used.

In Options:

In Script:


The results looks like this:

By doing it this way, you can have a textbox literally anywhere you like, and even have different textboxes in different locations assigned to different characters.

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Ookami Kasumi ~ Purveyor of fine Smut.
Erotic Visions ~ Visual Novels

• What kind of Fiction should YOU Write? [Quiz Game] ~ PG
• The Erotic Story Generator ~ R-18
• The Visitor ~ Classic Horror/Vampire ~ PG-13

"No amount of great animation will save a bad story." -- John Lasseter of Pixar

Thanks! I'll give that a shot. I want to do it in adv though so the text box only takes up a box and not the whole side of the screen. I could just mess with the sizes though. Appreciate it.

By taking advantage of the versatility of nvl mode, you can put your box anywhere, or not even use a box. The trick is that you Must use "nvl clear" at the end of every dialogue line.

The game is 1024x768
In Script:

in Options:

in script:

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Ookami Kasumi ~ Purveyor of fine Smut.
Erotic Visions ~ Visual Novels

• What kind of Fiction should YOU Write? [Quiz Game] ~ PG
• The Erotic Story Generator ~ R-18
• The Visitor ~ Classic Horror/Vampire ~ PG-13

"No amount of great animation will save a bad story." -- John Lasseter of Pixar

You could to the same thing with ADV mode - and probably easier.

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