How can I change the way the text appears on the screen?

[GrisGrisGriotGirl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zArP9fK ... 497C85855F

The text in this visual novel (Higuruashi) appears to "fade in" on the screen, rather than appear bluntly. Is there anyway to code the text to appear in a similar manner in Ren'py?

[rakada]

## The default text speed in characters per second. 0 is infinite.

config.default_text_cps = 1

you can use this to change how fast or slow it shows the text 0 is that it all instant appear on the screen at once

[Asceai]

I think OP meant that the characters alpha fade in, rather than appearing instantly. I don't know how to make ren'py do this without a heap of custom coding.

[GrisGrisGriotGirl]

Is the alpha fade exceptionally hard work?

[Asceai]

It's not so much hard work as something Ren'Py simply doesn't do. It would be easy to make, for example, all the text fade in at once (just use ATL on the text in the 'say' screen) but making it appear character by character would be more difficult.

Maybe using an ImageDissolve transition as a displayable with a control image like this:

shaped around your textbox (assuming a 4 line textbox) is a possible hack to enable this, but it's not quite the same.

[GrisGrisGriotGirl]

"It's not so much hard work as something Ren'Py simply doesn't do. It would be easy to make, for example, all the text fade in at once (just use ATL on the text in the 'say' screen) but making it appear character by character would be more difficult."

OK. Then how could I make all the text fade in, if you don't mind explaining?

[Asceai]

"It's not so much hard work as something Ren'Py simply doesn't do. It would be easy to make, for example, all the text fade in at once (just use ATL on the text in the 'say' screen) but making it appear character by character would be more difficult."

OK. Then how could I make all the text fade in, if you don't mind explaining?

Edit screens.rpy and find the first 'text what' line. Add 'at text_transform' to the end of it.
Somewhere else, add this:

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transform text_transform:
  alpha 0.0
  linear 1.0 alpha 1.0

Fiddle with the first 1.0 on the last line to control how long the fade takes.

[GrisGrisGriotGirl]

Thank you so much. sir! ^_^