How to make timed text?

[AHAKuo]

How can I make the "show text" command show the text and hide it after a certain amount of time?

[Andredron]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens. ... ight=timer

[Imperf3kt]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens. ... ight=timer

That is a screen action, not what the OP is after.

Perhaps the Paragraph pause function has what you want?
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html?#text-tag-p

The paragraph pause tag is a self-closing tag that terminates the current paragraph, and waits for the user to click to continue. If it is given an argument, the argument is interpreted as a number, and the wait automatically ends after that many seconds have passed.

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"Line 1{p}Line 2{p=1.0}Line 3"

[trooper6]

You could just use renpy.notify
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.ht ... npy.notify

Or look at the Notify Screen and make your own version of it called something else
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_s ... ify#notify

[DannX]

Or you could use ATL:

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transform timed_hide(t):

    time t 
    linear .5 alpha 0

label start:

    show text "Hello World" at timed_hide(1)

    ""

    return

[AHAKuo]

Or you could use ATL:

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transform timed_hide(t):

    time t 
    linear .5 alpha 0

label start:

    show text "Hello World" at timed_hide(1)

    ""

    return

This doesn't seem to work. I think this code only works for displayables not text.


###EDIT####


Oops I'm sorry. I've mistakenly forgot to put "show text" how stupid of me. It works now! Thank you so much! You're a lifesaver seriously <3

[AHAKuo]

You could just use renpy.notify
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/other.ht ... npy.notify

Or look at the Notify Screen and make your own version of it called something else
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screen_s ... ify#notify

Not really what I'm going for but I'll give it a look. Thank you :3

[AHAKuo]

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens. ... ight=timer

That is a screen action, not what the OP is after.

Perhaps the Paragraph pause function has what you want?
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html?#text-tag-p

The paragraph pause tag is a self-closing tag that terminates the current paragraph, and waits for the user to click to continue. If it is given an argument, the argument is interpreted as a number, and the wait automatically ends after that many seconds have passed.

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"Line 1{p}Line 2{p=1.0}Line 3"

No this isn't it. I've tried.