SOLVED in the middle of the sprite

[bicilotti]

LucasArts style game.

I'm trying to place the speech of my character (dialogues, interactions with objiects etc) OVER his/her head.

i've added the SetSpeechStyle(eSpeechLucasarts); in the global script but the text is still displayed somewhere below the middle of the sprite.

Any help?

[Khris]

Where exactly did you put this command?
Btw, you can set the speech style in the General settings pane, too.

[bicilotti]

Code: ags

function game_start() {

SetSpeechStyle(eSpeechLucasarts); //TIPO DI VISUALIZZAZIONE
Game.NormalFont = 1; // DECIDE IL TIPO DI CARATTERE
Game.SpeechFont = 1;

I used the LecScumm 1.5 template on a 640x480 game

[Khris]

That's weird, to say the least.
I assume you do use Character.Say commands, right?
Afaik, the text position is calculated using the coordinates and sprite height of the char, could you post a screenshot?

The aren't any transparent chars around who might do the actual talking?

[bicilotti]

Code: ags

function unhandled_event (int what, int type) {
  SetSpeechStyle(eSpeechLucasarts); 
  //all the unhandled_events for various things.
  if ((what==1)&&(type==8)) { //hotspot
         if (GetGlobalInt(10)==1){ character[EGO].Say ("I can't give that.");}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==2){ character[EGO].Say ("I won't pick that uppe.");}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==3){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "Using that won't do me any good.");}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==4){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "That won't open.");}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==5){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "It won't reply.");}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==6){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "I can't push that,");}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==7){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "That won't close.");}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==8){ GetLocationName(mouse.x,mouse.y,placer); DisplaySpeech (EGO, "Nice %s", placer);}
    else if (GetGlobalInt(10)==9){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "Pulling that won't do me good.");}
    else if(GetGlobalInt(10)==10){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "I don't think it'd want that.");}
    else if(GetGlobalInt(10)==11){ DisplaySpeech (EGO, "That won't shed any light on things.");}}
  if ((what==2)&&(type==6)) { //object

i used the old "displayspeech", but even if i choose the new "character.say" it is still the same old story.

[Khris]

Could you take a screenshot?

[bicilotti]

Could you take a screenshot?

[Khris]

I'm at my wits' end here, sorry.
I've never seen anything like this with AGS.
It looks like the speech was placed above the char pivot's y, not y-sprite height.

What happens if you enable the walkable area's scaling and make the character talk at different zoom levels?

[bicilotti]

What happens if you enable the walkable area's scaling and make the character talk at different zoom levels?

You did it!!!! I set the zoom at 101% and everithing worked ok!

[Khris]

That's cool, but this is still a notable glitch.

101% percent isn't far off but probably enough to add an extra line of pixels to character sprites exceeding a height of, say, 100 pixels, which isn't really that much. I wouldn't want that to happen to my sprites, so I'd be curious about an explanation.