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Title: exactly how is text speed calculated? (SOLVED)
Post by: EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy) on Thu 22/05/2008 22:43:16

Does anyone know the exact formula for how long 'Say' will keep text on the screen? I have some characters that need to disappear at the exact same time as text disappears.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: exactly how is text speed calculated?
Post by: GarageGothic on Fri 23/05/2008 00:32:04

From the AGS Tidbits & Snippest doc (http://americangirlscouts.org/agswiki/index.php?title=AGS_tidbits_%26_snippets):

The number of gameloops a speech string is displayed:

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int gameloops = ((StrLen(text) / game.text_speed) + 1) * GetGameSpeed();

StrLen() is obsolete though, so formatted to new style code, it would be (assuming a String named "text"):

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int gameloops = ((text.Length / game.text_speed) + 1) * GetGameSpeed();

Title: Re: exactly how is text speed calculated?
Post by: Radiant on Fri 23/05/2008 08:23:07

Note that the above implies that you can cause a text to be displayed longer, by padding it with spaces.

Title: Re: exactly how is text speed calculated? (SOLVED)
Post by: EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy) on Fri 23/05/2008 08:23:53

Thanks. That was exactly what I was looking for.

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