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lsf22 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 11:14 am I want to be able to show a character thinking or speaking inside their head. Can this be done easily? For example I've used Italics but sometimes it doesn't look strong enough for players to see the difference from plain text, since italics are used to convey "Interior Monologue".
One of my guesses is would I need to create speech bubble dialogue box? What that require some style prefixes to work with on doing that? Or is there actually a simple solution?

Dark12ose wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 6:21 pm You can switch between dialogue boxes/textboxs using ConditionSwitch in say screen under style window.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... tionSwitch

for example:

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style window:
	background ConditionSwitch(
		"tb = 'normal'", Frame("gui/textbox.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0),
		"tb = 'thoughtbubble'", Frame("gui/thoughtbubble.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
	)

Than in your script:

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define tb = "normal"  ## Place this BEFORE label start so that Ren'py knows what's the default dialogue box is.

label start:
	e "The dialogue box is a regular box."
	$ tb = "thoughtbubble"
	e "Now the dialogue box is my inner thought bubble."
	$ tb = "normal"
	e "Now it's back to the default dialogue box."

The "tb" and "normal"/"thoughtbubble" can be named whatever you want. As for the x/yalign, make sure you have this or else your dialogue box will be placed somewhere else. The numbers are the default placement and can be changed depending where you want your textbox location to be.

I hope this is what you are looking for!

lsf22 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 26, 2022 11:41 am

Dark12ose wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 6:21 pm You can switch between dialogue boxes/textboxs using ConditionSwitch in say screen under style window.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displaya ... tionSwitch

for example:

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style window:
	background ConditionSwitch(
		"tb = 'normal'", Frame("gui/textbox.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0),
		"tb = 'thoughtbubble'", Frame("gui/thoughtbubble.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
	)

Than in your script:

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define tb = "normal"  ## Place this BEFORE label start so that Ren'py knows what's the default dialogue box is.

label start:
	e "The dialogue box is a regular box."
	$ tb = "thoughtbubble"
	e "Now the dialogue box is my inner thought bubble."
	$ tb = "normal"
	e "Now it's back to the default dialogue box."

The "tb" and "normal"/"thoughtbubble" can be named whatever you want. As for the x/yalign, make sure you have this or else your dialogue box will be placed somewhere else. The numbers are the default placement and can be changed depending where you want your textbox location to be.

I hope this is what you are looking for!

Yes, Thank you. I believe this is what I was looking for.

lsf22 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 5:29 pm I'm getting this error for that code "Tab characters are not allowed in Ren'py scripts"

lsf22 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:23 pm I'm getting syntax errors now

edit: I added an = sign in the code for "tb == 'normal' " and "tb == 'thoughtbubble' " for it to work. At least I hope it works right fully

zmook wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:41 am FWIW, it's common practice to define a separate "character" to speak the interior thoughts, when you want them to have a different look.

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define mc = Character("Our hero")   # for normal dialog
define mct = Character("", show_thoughtbubble=True)   # main character thoughts

screen say(who, what, thoughtbubble=False):
    # Character keyword arguments beginning with "show_" have the prefix stripped off, 
    # and are passed to the screen as arguments.
    style_prefix "say"
    
    window:
        style window:
        	background ConditionSwitch(
		        "thoughtbubble", Frame("gui/thoughtbubble.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)
	        	"True", Frame("gui/textbox.png, xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0),
	                )


label start:
	mc "The dialogue box is a regular box."
	mct "Now the dialogue box is my inner thought bubble."

Dark12ose wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:35 pm When the mct is the first speaker in a scene change is there a ghosting of the default textbox before the custom textbox appear?

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