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AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: InCreator on Wed 16/06/2004 22:44:56

Title: Thought bubbles
Post by: InCreator on Wed 16/06/2004 22:44:56
Is there any templates or demos available?
It's pretty difficult to make one by myself without any aid.
Title: Re: Thought bubbles
Post by: Moox on Thu 17/06/2004 04:10:02
You could make a text display gui with a bubble graphic
Title: Re: Thought bubbles
Post by: Scorpiorus on Thu 17/06/2004 21:50:02
That as easy as displaying the lucasarts-style speech. The only difference is that you can set up a special thinking gui, as LostTraveler mentioned. Consult the manual about a DisplayThought (CHARID, string message) function. The paragraph contains all the info on thinking stuff.
Title: Re: Thought bubbles
Post by: Ashen on Thu 17/06/2004 22:12:13
InCreator, I found this in an old post of yours, is it still the problem?

"I managed to create a bubble using text window gui option, but it's kinda lame. And I'd like to see one or two smaller (with decreasing size) cartoony bubbles under the big, text-filled one. Desirably, pointing at the character who's thinking. How is it done?"

I can't help with making a non-lame GUI, but the easiest way to do the 'cartoony bubbles' is to make a thinking view for the character, with the bubbles drawn onto the sprites. That way they'll always be in the right position, and always pointing at the right character.
Title: Re: Thought bubbles
Post by: InCreator on Fri 18/06/2004 12:57:36
I'm having trouble making bubble edges for text-gui. transparent color comes into way and leaves pixelwide transparent lines where they are not needed.
Still trying to come across it, though.

I haven't got much time recently, because I'm preparing my game to be something I can put up to games in production forum. Something to screen-shot, i mean.
Title: Re: Thought bubbles
Post by: Scorpiorus on Fri 18/06/2004 17:28:58
Here is a template showing bubble GUI in action

http://www.geocities.com/scorpiorus82/bubble.zip (Copy&Paste the link to the address bar!)

Hope it helps

EDIT: to add a copy&paste note