Colonel's Bequest style Speech.

[ALPHATT]

I have an important question.

How should I attempt to put a small animated 'portrait' in the same box where the speech goes?

Heres a screenie form the colonel's bequest to show what I'm thinking of.



in this screenie she's not talking, but you get what I mean.

[Ghost]

You could just make a GUI with a button to hold the portrait graphic (and animate the button) and a label to hold the text. You'll need to change text manually, since you can't use the character.say functions then, but I think it'll work quite okay.

[ALPHATT]

yes I've thought about that. But it would generate unwanted work.

[Dualnames]

yes I've thought about that. But it would generate unwanted work.

Not really. You can create a function like this(I name the label lblmsg you replace that however you name it, and the button that contains the image as btnshow, and imagining the GUI is named gDialogDisplay):

function Sayeth(this Character*,String msg) {
gDialogDisplay.Visible=true;
lblmsg.TextColor=this.SpeechColor;//keep that if you want text colour to be taken from the character who is saying the line
lblmsg.Text=msg;
btnshow.Animate(this.SpeechView,0, 5,eOnce);//change to erepeat if you want to repeatedly do animation, and it's also taking character's speech view.
}

Never really played laura bow so from what you've saying I'm trying to give you a hand.

[ALPHATT]

Thanks Dualnames I'll see what I can do.