I'm curious if there's any 'standard' when adding emotions in dialogue in VNs...
What I'm currently doing is something like this:
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sha "*grins at you* So, you're ready then?"
It seems to flow more than going:
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"She grins at you."
sha "So, you're ready then?"
Another problem with the second one is that I use character portraits with the dialogue, so if I just use the narrator "She grins at you." The face will disappear, since it doesn't specify with character that's being used.. Yet at the same time. if I do add the character prefix for an emote, in this case 'sha', then it will appear as if she is speaking the emote rather than doing it..
For long emotes, I definitely prefer to use some sort of narrator, since it should have it's own dialogue screen, but for shorter emotes, I like it connected with the line being said..
Anyone out there got a good 'system' for this, including when using a character portrait next to the lines?