[Tutorial] Customizing the Textbox

[Twisted-Eva]

Well, if you already left some free space between screen side and textbox for a side image, you don't need to set left_padding at all.

Thank you, I'll try that when I get back home. I changed the left_padding from 290 to 250 thinking there should be a difference in spacing within the textbox, but it didn't cross my mind to just set it to 0 and see what happens.

[AERenoir]

Is it possible to make a different textbox setting for different character? Let's say I want the main character to have a different-looking textbox and have her side image be positioned on the left, while everyone else's side image is on the right.

[Alex]

You could try this good ol' method - http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/FAQ#How ... y_speak.3F

[leon]

This will use a different texbox image for one character:

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    define mc = Character("Derp", window_background="textbox.png")

You can change other attributes in a similar fashion. For example style.window.left_padding becomes window_left_padding.

[kirbysuperstar]

Is there a way to get CTC animations/images to show up on 'narration' lines? I'm probably missing something really bleeding obvious, but aside from making a "narration" character and setting all the narration say lines to use that then I'm lost.

[Alex]

When you've created a "narrator" character you don't need to use it like

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narrator "What?"

everything will work as usual

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"That's me - narrator, speaks!"

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue. ... characters

[kirbysuperstar]

Ahah. Yes, that got it. Told you I was missing something obvious. Cheers.

[AERenoir]

I'm using Renpy 6.12, and I wanted the save/load menu to be on the textbox like in 6.13. 6.13 and above keep on crashing on my computer. Where do I code the stuff in?

[Hyraculon]

This thread has been amazingly helpful, but there's one thing I can't seem to figure out. I'm using show_two_window for my character names. I also managed to set a character who has a unique text box with window_background, but I can't figure out what code to put in to style that character's name box. What code should I be using for this?

[Myrgjol]

This tutorial was so useful~! (°w°)
But leave it to me to srew things around ;A;
I wanted that, instead of different textboxes, each character had a special namebox, is it possible? (°^°)
In any case, thank you very much for the tutorial (;w;)

[Hyraculon]

I wanted that, instead of different textboxes, each character had a special namebox, is it possible? (°^°)

I had a lot of trouble with this, too. You can find some good solutions here and here.

[Myrgjol]

THANK YOU!!! :'D
The second one helped me a lot ;w;

[SixOfSpades]

Thanks for the clear tutorial, but I do have an additional question.

While I understand that you can give a specific character their own textbox, is there a way to change textbox without tying it to a character?

Say for example I want Alice to use TextboxA when talking normally, and TextboxB when I want to represent her yelling. I suppose I can define a second character that's only called when Alice yells, but that sounds inefficient.

[Alex]

I suppose I can define a second character that's only called when Alice yells, but that sounds inefficient.

That sounds ok. You even won't need to copy/paste the whole code for second character

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define alice_a = Character("Alice", window_background="bg1.png", who_color="#c8ffc8", what_color="#fff", etc.)
define alice_b = Character("Alice", kind=alice_a, window_background="bg2.png")

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue. ... er-objects

[kirbysuperstar]

Quick question - if I've set a textbox colour with style.window.background, can I make that transparent at all or do I have to use a frame/PNG with transparency set?