How to make two characters speaking at the same time?

[Near]

Hello! I have a question: how to make two characters speak at the same time in separate textboxes?
Here's what I mean: (mad painting skillz, I know :D)

[Chasing Summer]

Well.. I’m not sure I can be much help. I do know what you could do if you want two characters to speak at the same time and saying the same thing. Judging what you drew with your awesome skillz, I don’t think that’s what you meant. Good luck!

[nyaatrap]

There is a code for it, but not sure ren'py will have it in default. (https://github.com/renpy/renpy/pull/144)

I wrote a code to do simpler, but not flexible way in the past at http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 81#p249581

[Near]

Ummm, nyaatrap, I apologize for being such newbie, but I have a problem with using your code. I should paste it into script.rpy right? When I did it, and tried my characters to use it (g|m "I knew it!|Yikes!" that's what I tried to do), there appears error.


Thanks for help ^^.

[Asceai]

I suspect you need:

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"g|m" "I knew it!|Yikes!"

with both parts quoted

[Near]

Unfortunately, this didn't work. When I did what you said Asceai, this has appeared.

[Asceai]

You need to edit the say code in screens.rpy and hack in nyaatrap's code. In testing it I replaced the 'twowindow' bit of code with it. What you want is for the normal code to be called if there's no | found in the string.

e.g.

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screen say:
    # Defaults for side_image and two_window
    default side_image = None
    default two_window = False

    if not what.find("|") == -1:
        window:
            area (32,536,512,200)
            id "window"

            if who:
                text who.split("|")[0] id "who" ypos -0.2

            text what.split("|")[0] id "what"
           
        window:
            area (640,536,512,200)
            id "window"

            if who:
                text who.split("|")[1] id "who" ypos -0.2

            text what.split("|")[1] id "what"
    else:

        # The two window variant.
        vbox:
            style "say_two_window_vbox"

            if who:
                window:
                    style "say_who_window"

                    text who:
                        id "who"

            window:
                id "window"

                has vbox:
                    style "say_vbox"

                text what id "what"

    # If there's a side image, display it above the text.
    if side_image:
        add side_image
    else:
        add SideImage() xalign 0.0 yalign 1.0

    # Use the quick menu.
    use quick_menu

like nyaatrap said, it requires screen coding to customise. For example, the hardcoded positions require quite a large screen width and height to work properly, so you'd either want to adjust those positions or make your screen bigger.