make the centered text seeable

[demondog29]

I want to use the centered text but
http://mayhem-twins.tumblr.com/private/ ... xoB1ra8nnc

as you can see here, the centered text just cant be seen.

is their any possible way for me to have like a black text box behind it or at least have it somehow see able?

Any ideas are appreciated.

[isobellesophia]

I think when you make a new project, you should pick the black background instead of a white background. (Its my opinion how you start a new project on Ren'py by picking colors.)

So, this is what you are talking about?

If you want to change the color text, just open the file named gui.rpy.

You can at least change some colors in the game.
Sry bad english

[demondog29]

I think when you make a new project, you should pick the black background instead of a white background. (Its my opinion how you start a new project on Ren'py by picking colors.)

color.png

So, this is what you are talking about?

If you want to change the color text, just open the file named gui.rpy.

You can at least change some colors in the game.
Sry bad english

thats a good idea, but is there a way i could mayb put a text box in the center or something like that so that it can be seeable without restarting?

[Wight]

There's a few things you can do. You can use text tags to change the text, such as the color of it.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-color

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show text "{color=#000000}LOOK AT ME, I'M TEXT!{/color}"

But that can get tedious if you're using it often on white backgrounds. In which case, you can put this in your script:

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image blacktext = ParameterizedText(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5, color="#000000")

And then instead of "show text", you say "show blacktext" whenever there's a white background like that.
Alternatively, you can keep the text white and just give it a black outline. Like the one above, you put this in script:

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image outlinedtext = ParameterizedText(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5, color="#ffffff", outlines=[(1, "#000000", 0, 0)])

And instead of "show text", you say "show outlinedtext". You can also edit how the outline works, in case you want to make it thicker or stick out a certain way.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... y-outlines

[demondog29]

There's a few things you can do. You can use text tags to change the text, such as the color of it.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-color

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show text "{color=#000000}LOOK AT ME, I'M TEXT!{/color}"

But that can get tedious if you're using it often on white backgrounds. In which case, you can put this in your script:

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image blacktext = ParameterizedText(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5, color="#000000")

And then instead of "show text", you say "show blacktext" whenever there's a white background like that.
Alternatively, you can keep the text white and just give it a black outline. Like the one above, you put this in script:

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image outlinedtext = ParameterizedText(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5, color="#ffffff", outlines=[(1, "#000000", 0, 0)])

And instead of "show text", you say "show outlinedtext". You can also edit how the outline works, in case you want to make it thicker or stick out a certain way.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... y-outlines

Wait can I outline centered texts?

[isobellesophia]

There's a few things you can do. You can use text tags to change the text, such as the color of it.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-color

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show text "{color=#000000}LOOK AT ME, I'M TEXT!{/color}"

But that can get tedious if you're using it often on white backgrounds. In which case, you can put this in your script:

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image blacktext = ParameterizedText(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5, color="#000000")

And then instead of "show text", you say "show blacktext" whenever there's a white background like that.
Alternatively, you can keep the text white and just give it a black outline. Like the one above, you put this in script:

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image outlinedtext = ParameterizedText(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5, color="#ffffff", outlines=[(1, "#000000", 0, 0)])

And instead of "show text", you say "show outlinedtext". You can also edit how the outline works, in case you want to make it thicker or stick out a certain way.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... y-outlines

Wait can I outline centered texts?

Yes, just set a code of colors you want, so you can see your text

[demondog29]

Wait can I outline centered texts?
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Yes, just set a code of colors you want, so you can see your text
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i was trying but I can't seem to do it? could you show me how it supposed to look?

[Wight]

You can put this into your script. This will make white text with a black outline.

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image outlinedtext = ParameterizedText(xalign=0.5, yalign=0.5, color="#ffffff", outlines=[(1, "#000000", 0, 0)])

And whenever you want outlined centered text, put in something like this instead of show text

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show outlinedtext "LOOK AT ME, I'M OUTLINED TEXT!"

You can rename "outlinedtext" to something easier to type out, if needed.

[demondog29]

I put it on the script, but it just skips over it when i try play it?

[Wight]

Is there a scene transition after the text? If there's no dialogue following it, then it's going just going to show it very briefly. Under it, put "pause". This will make it so that the text stays on the screen and it will only proceed once the player clicks again.

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show outlinedtext "LOOK AT ME, I'M OUTLINED TEXT!"
pause

[demondog29]

Is there a scene transition after the text? If there's no dialogue following it, then it's going just going to show it very briefly. Under it, put "pause". This will make it so that the text stays on the screen and it will only proceed once the player clicks again.

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show outlinedtext "LOOK AT ME, I'M OUTLINED TEXT!"
pause

This works!! Thanks!