Displaying a Line of Text for a set time before progressing

[Bampton]

Hi, sorry for the ultra basic question, but I have been combing through the documentation and can't seem to find how to do this. I am sure it must be something really simple and I'm just using the wrong terms!

I basically just want a line of text to display for say, 5 seconds, before the game progresses automatically.

Thanks!

[Donmai]

You will want this part of the documentation: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text
Maybe you are after the {w} tag. For example:

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"Sentence 1{w} Sentence 2"

Sentence 1 will be shown and Ren'Py will wait for a mouse click before showing Sentence 2.

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"Sentence 1{w=5.0} Sentence 2"

Sentence 1 will be shown and Ren'Py will wait five seconds before automatically showing Sentence 2.

If your text is a title, and not a dialogue, you can use pause.
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... enpy.pause

[Bampton]

Thanks, but that's not quite what I'm trying to do! That will be useful though…

I'm basically trying to make a sort of slideshow that generates random stuff, displays it for a short time, then re randomises and starts again, looping around forever. It's an art installation thing. So I have my random variables set up, then I have them displayed with this line -

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" Number [counter] - [fname] [mname] [sname] \n * [varyone] [varytwo]. \n * [varythree]"

and then I want the line to go away like if the player clicked, but without a click. I think I just need the auto-advance-mode, but I am damned if I can find out how to actually turn it on! There's an option to change the speed of it in the preferences menu even, but I cannot see how to actually get it to, well, auto advance to begin with.

Thanks again!

EDIT - ARG, I am so dumb, it is right there on the screen in the main game. XD I still can't find out how to set auto-advance-mode to be on by default though?

[Asceai]

Thanks, but that's not quite what I'm trying to do! That will be useful though…

I'm basically trying to make a sort of slideshow that generates random stuff, displays it for a short time, then re randomises and starts again, looping around forever. It's an art installation thing. So I have my random variables set up, then I have them displayed with this line -

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" Number [counter] - [fname] [mname] [sname] \n * [varyone] [varytwo]. \n * [varythree]"

and then I want the line to go away like if the player clicked, but without a click. I think I just need the auto-advance-mode, but I am damned if I can find out how to actually turn it on! There's an option to change the speed of it in the preferences menu even, but I cannot see how to actually get it to, well, auto advance to begin with.

Thanks again!

EDIT - ARG, I am so dumb, it is right there on the screen in the main game. XD I still can't find out how to set auto-advance-mode to be on by default though?

config.default_afm_enable = True

[soggybottoms]

EDIT - ARG, I am so dumb, it is right there on the screen in the main game. XD I still can't find out how to set auto-advance-mode to be on by default though?

I am looking everywhere trying to figure out exactly how to do this and have no idea what super obvious thing you saw that you're referring to here. XD Can you spell it out?? I've read how to make it do this on default for the whole game, but I only want to implement it on a line-by-line basis as needed.

[xavimat]

Maybe you need the {nw} tag: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-nw

[soggybottoms]

That was making the line disappear as soon as it appeared since I don't have slow-type on. But I figured it out! n_n Gotta put an amount of time to wait (same way you put a pause between two strings in the same line when you want a pausing effect) followed by the {nw} tag. That does the trick.