STILL UNSOLVED - Help with additional say screen

[Flowersoft Gamedev]

Hi. I've been making use of show text displayables to show "dialogue" on center the screen during the game runtime.

But I find you can skip these text displayables (I use window hide, window auto to remove say screen while I run the text displayable) with the ff code when the player presses next/mouse to click/spacebar:

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window hide

    show text "{color=#FFF}{size=+30}{cps=20}Welcome to Carnivale!{/cps}{/size}{/color}" at truecenter with Dissolve(5.0)
    hide text

    show text "{size=+30}Please look forward to it!{/size}" at truecenter with Dissolve(5.0)
    hide text

    window auto

    e "Character text here."

While the show text is run at each 5 seconds, player can press space bar and end the sequence to bring up the dialogue say screen. I also notice cps not work on the text displayable also. Since it becomes tricky and I don't want to place a Disable Skip/Disable player input on spacebar while the text displays, I want to make new say screen so that the cps and the text can be guided with each click.

So I try to make say screen, but it does not work somewhat and I need help with that. I want say screen assigned to a character (lets say it is Captain)

I do this:

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define = Character("Captain", screen="captscreen")

so that the diff say screen shows when it is captain speaking.

This is new code for the say screen "captscreen" which i took only example from the documentation of renpy, only for example without much customized look

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screen captscreen(who, what):
    window id "window":
        vbox:
            spacing 10
            xpos 100
            ypos 100

            text who id "who"
            text what id "what"

But it shows to this:

It is wrapped in the same say screen for original dialogue, but i want to see it in "true center"

Can anyone help? I have minimal screen knowledge as only basic renpy programming i can do

[nerupuff]

Hi! Not an expert on this but for aligning it to true center, you can remove

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window id "window":

Then fix the indentations a bit, and replace both the xpos and ypos with

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at truecenter

Like this:

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screen captscreen(who, what):
    vbox:
        spacing 10
        at truecenter

        text who id "who"
        text what id "what"

Might help. Good luck!

[Flowersoft Gamedev]

I did trial of your suggestion, while it was correct, this is what show:



Is there a way to fix the "dialogue" to also trucenter instead of just the charactar name?

Also, I want to ask, how do I customize the character for "narrator" since he does not have special tag as much as I look on the documentation? I will plan 2 narrators here, 1 for the regular say screen, and 1 for the true center screen, but how do I code that functioanlity with "who" "what" in screen id?

[Flowersoft Gamedev]

I try removing the "who" id but they still do not line up. I still need help with fixing the narrator to use a different say screen, but I can't seem to edit "narrator" properties like I would in define X = Character("name", screen="screen") please help

[Per K Grok]

Can anyone help? I have minimal screen knowledge as only basic renpy programming i can do

You could try this

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define = Character("Captain", window_style="captwindow"

In screens.rpy under 'screen say(who, what):'

copy and paste the "style window"-block.
Change the name of the new block to style captwindow
Change yalign to 0.5

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style window:
    xalign 0.5
    xfill True
    yalign gui.textbox_yalign
    ysize gui.textbox_height

    background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)


style captwindow:
    xalign 0.5
    xfill True
    yalign 0.5
    ysize gui.textbox_height

    background Image("gui/textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0)