(Solved)Teach me, please! How to make a Sierra style talking GUI on my Game Over

[Herooftime1000]

See that image of Discord? I want to make a GUI of Discord talking and taunting you on the game over screen in Sierra style. How exactly can this be done? I don't know where to start.

[Ghost]

Not too hard. I'd make a GUI and put a button on it, then make a view holding the character's animation, and then animate the button (looping). The rectangle could hold a label to display the text. That would be the basic idea- how much help do you need in creating that?

Alternatively, you could dispose of the "text box" and just make the dragon a character. Place it on your Game Over screen and use the normal talk functions- much more convenient.

Very cutesy designed character, by the way- I like it a lot!

[Herooftime1000]

Not too hard. I'd make a GUI and put a button on it, then make a view holding the character's animation, and then animate the button (looping). The rectangle could hold a label to display the text. That would be the basic idea- how much help do you need in creating that?

Alternatively, you could dispose of the "text box" and just make the dragon a character. Place it on your Game Over screen and use the normal talk functions- much more convenient.

Very cutesy designed character, by the way- I like it a lot!

Er, well, thanks. But it's not my character at all.

Anyways, that's beside the point. Is there a way I can make the button fit the lip sync of the game? I want it to talk and say what is on the text box. Is that possible?

[Herooftime1000]

Got it working the way you wanted it to.

But how to make the button talk like a speech view. Hmm.

[Ghost]

Is there a way I can make the button fit the lip sync of the game? I want it to talk and say what is on the text box. Is that possible?

No. You can animate a button and you can display text on a label on a GUI. But AGS can not make a button sprite "talk" lip-synched.

[Khris]

The other way is to draw the box on the background and use an actual character instead of a button. Even if the box moved, you wouldn't have to use a GUI.

Something like:

Code: ags

  DrawingSurface*ds = Room.GetDrawingSurfaceForBackground();
  ds.DrawImage(0, 150, box_sprite_number);
  ds.Release();
  cGameOverPony.ChangeRoom(player.Room, 30, 150);
  cGameOverPony.SayAt(...);

[Herooftime1000]

The other way is to draw the box on the background and use an actual character instead of a button. Even if the box moved, you wouldn't have to use a GUI.

Something like:

Code: ags

  DrawingSurface*ds = Room.GetDrawingSurfaceForBackground();
  ds.DrawImage(0, 150, box_sprite_number);
  ds.Release();
  cGameOverPony.ChangeRoom(player.Room, 30, 150);
  cGameOverPony.SayAt(...);

Ok, I did that and it works like a charm... almost. Discord isn't moving his mouth and the text box GUI is interfering.

Is the fact that I am using a SierrawithBackground speech interfering with this?

[Ghost]

Switch to LucasArt style speech, that should do the trick.

[Herooftime1000]

Switch to LucasArt style speech, that should do the trick.

Can you switch speech styles in script? I don't want to get rid of Lucasarts style in the whole game. It ruins the speech boxes I made for the characters.

[Ghost]

Can you switch speech styles in script?

Yup, that's possible (wow, I didn't know that!)

From the manual:

SetSpeechStyle(SpeechStyle)
Changes the way in which speech text is displayed. This modifies the setting originally set in the editor. SpeechStyle can be:

eSpeechLucasarts - speech text over character's head
eSpeechSierra - close-up portrait of character
eSpeechSierraWithBackground - close-up portrait + background window for text
eSpeechFullScreen - QFG4-style full screen dialog pictures

Example: SetSpeechStyle(eSpeechSierra) will change the speech style to a close up portrait of the character.

[Herooftime1000]

Can you switch speech styles in script?

Yup, that's possible (wow, I didn't know that!)

From the manual:

SetSpeechStyle(SpeechStyle)
Changes the way in which speech text is displayed. This modifies the setting originally set in the editor. SpeechStyle can be:

eSpeechLucasarts - speech text over character's head
eSpeechSierra - close-up portrait of character
eSpeechSierraWithBackground - close-up portrait + background window for text
eSpeechFullScreen - QFG4-style full screen dialog pictures

Example: SetSpeechStyle(eSpeechSierra) will change the speech style to a close up portrait of the character.

Well, I think we all learned something today! All right! My cutscene is working like I envisioned it!
Thanks of the support! Peace!