messages go off too fast

[homey3]

Is there a way to make the messages stay on longer before they automatically go off?  I know you can make it so the player must click before it changes, but I do need it to go off automatically, I just need not to happen as fast.  Thanks

[strazer]

game.text_speed - How long speech text stays on the screen. Default 15, higher number means shorter time.
(There's more interesting stuff in the manual: Contents -> Reference -> Text script global variables)

So go to menu "Script" -> "game_start", then enter

game.text_speed = 10;

Save, close the editor window and you're done.

[homey3]

Thanks!  I appreciate the manual reference.  I always try to look there first so I don't waste space posting it but I found nothing nor did I even know what to look FOR.

Jonathan GRant

[homey3]

Okay, so in the global script where do I put them?

game.text_speed
game.speech_text_gui

Do I put == next to them and then the number or do I put the number in parenthasis beside it or what?

I placed them within the first set of {} under gamestart and it said there was an error.

[strazer]

If you open the global script itself (menu "Script" -> "Edit global script..."), the game_start function should look like this:

#sectionstart game_start  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE
function game_start() { // called when the game starts, before the first room is loaded
game.text_speed = 10; // change the value 10 to your liking
}
#sectionend game_start  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE

[homey3]

Works great.  Can you edit this in the individual room script so that my credits (for the end) will have a different speed and gui than the rest of the game?  I tried just pasting the game.speech_text_gui = 5; in the room script but that didn't work.

Thanks!

[Ashen]

Where in the room script did you paste it?
You need to put it in the 'Player enters screen (before fadein)' section, of the rooms Interaction Editor (Ctrl-I, or the little red 'i' button).