Pausing With Parameterized Text

[myfistus_clarvetta]

I'm working on a scifi project that will be announced in November, and there are a few scenes where I wish to use parametrized text to indicate when someone is speaking with the protagonist telepathically:

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    "Then my mind is flooded with a stunningly beautiful, unhearable voice:"
    window hide
    scene black
    with flash
    show text1 "{size=38}{color=#ffff4a}\"Is.....this really true?\"{/color}{/size}"
    pause 2.5
    show text1 "{size=38}{color=#ffff4a}\"You.....really love me?\"{/color}{/size}"
    pause 2.5
    hide text1
    window show
    "I painfully tear my eyes away from hers, and nod."

As you may be able to tell, this is an all important confession scene. Ideally I would like to make it so that the game pauses at

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show text1 "{size=38}{color=#ffff4a}\"Is.....this really true?\"{/color}{/size}"

until the player clicks their mouse and then pauses again in a similar manner for the next line of dialogue.

Is there some way of doing this?

[Ayutac]

Isn't that "pausing until click" exactly what the say-screen does? (if the Auto-Forward time is set to infinity)

[myfistus_clarvetta]

I'm not talking about the normal text, I mean specifically this part:

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show text1 "{size=38}{color=#ffff4a}\"Is.....this really true?\"{/color}{/size}"
pause 2.5
show text1 "{size=38}{color=#ffff4a}\"You.....really love me?\"{/color}{/size}"
pause 2.5
hide text1

This causes "Is.....this really true?" to appear as parameterized text in the middle of the screen for two and a half seconds. Then "You.....really love me?" appears for two and a half seconds as parameterized text. And only after that is there normal dialogue/narration with a say statement. If those pauses weren't there, neither one of those words would appear, because renpy treats this kind of parameterized text as an image. I want to be able to pause between those two lines until the player clicks.

[PyTom]

You can just use "pause" without a parameter. That will pause until click.

[myfistus_clarvetta]

Thank you! All this time.....I thought pause had to have additional parameters.

[Ayutac]

On the other hand, my solution basically works, too. I just awakened with the idea of using a boolean variable in the say screen, but OokamiKasumi had a much better solution

I guess when you're using telepathy just this one time, the solution with pause is easier.


(Also I'm delighted about how much one can learn on this board :D )

[saguaro]

myfistus_clarvetta, you didn't ask, but you can add the size/color formatting to the parameterized text image definition so you don't have to add text tags for each line.

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    image text1 = renpy.ParameterizedText(color=#ffff4a, size=38)