Display multiple lines of dialogue simultaneously

[umineko]

I was wondering if there was a way to make multiple lines of dialogue appear simultaneously, something like this subtitled text?

I hear Multiple Character Dialogue does this, but it places an extra textbox.


Thank you in advance!

[m_from_space]

Multiple Character Dialogue might be the solution though. Just create different styles for the say screens to position the lines at different places. You also could create your own "multiple_say" screen, that handles those lines.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/multiple.html

Best way would be to do it with your own multiple_say screen I think (this example only accounts for 2 lines):

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screen multiple_say(who, what, multiple):

    if who is not None:
        text who id "who"

    vbox:
        if multiple[0] == 2:
            null height 20
        text what id "what" line_spacing 20
        
label start:
    e "This is Eileen." (multiple=2)
    e "(another language)" (multiple=2)    

edit: Included line_spacing to account for line breaks.