Hi all. I am reading EVERYTHING I can. Watching videos on youtube also. Soaking in as much as possible.
Is there a graphic display or video that shows the actual differences (in General Settings) of Lucasarts, Sierra Transparent, SierraWithBackground, and WholeScreen?
Kind of like "This is a screen shot of lucasarts". It has A,B,C." This is Sierra Transparent - it has X,Y,Z but you cannot do A,B,C like you can in lucasarts"... and so on...
Im trying to get a feel on which does each one do, pros and cons of each one, before I decide which one to dive into.
Thanks!
multi007
Are you talking about speech modes? Please edit your post's title to reflect what your question is about.
Also, welcome :)
Here's the short version:
Sierra style means that you're probably going to want talking heads style speech views since it displays the speech view at the corner/corners. The difference between transparent and background is simply whether or not it draws a background behind the text. I've never used whole screen before but that means it takes you to a different "room" so to speak in that you don't see the background where the characters are you'd just see a background and the characters like Gabriel Knight of Quest for Glory IV.
LucasArts means that the character itself animates/talks so your speech view will be an animation of the whole character talking.
You can set all of this in script too if you want to use a combination of the two. Here are some screenshots. I didn't do the Sierra Transparent but it would be just like the one with background without the white box. I'm also using the speech bubble module so the lucasarts style does get a speech bubble around it which it doesn't by default get. Hope this helps anyway!
(https://imgur.com/I1zOYOu.png)
(https://imgur.com/vIyZo9f.png)
(https://imgur.com/La0idfm.png)
Quote from: Khris on Mon 08/08/2022 18:37:09
Are you talking about speech modes? Please edit your post's title to reflect what your question is about.
Also, welcome :)
Thanks! and i was looking for what Newwavebuirritos said below.
Quote from: newwaveburritos on Mon 08/08/2022 23:11:32
Here's the short version:
Sierra style means that you're probably going to want talking heads style speech views since it displays the speech view at the corner/corners. The difference between transparent and background is simply whether or not it draws a background behind the text. I've never used whole screen before but that means it takes you to a different "room" so to speak in that you don't see the background where the characters are you'd just see a background and the characters like Gabriel Knight of Quest for Glory IV.
LucasArts means that the character itself animates/talks so your speech view will be an animation of the whole character talking.
You can set all of this in script too if you want to use a combination of the two. Here are some screenshots. I didn't do the Sierra Transparent but it would be just like the one with background without the white box. I'm also using the speech bubble module so the lucasarts style does get a speech bubble around it which it doesn't by default get. Hope this helps anyway!
THIS ^^ was perfect - exactly the explanation i was looking for. Thanks!