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Since you mention you are achieving this bubble using a GUI, you could use a label in the GUI to display the text, and then the text placement should naturally follow the GUI.

You can then use a transparent font for speech if you just want to use the character Say function for handling input in a blocking way.

So looking into this, I see there's some built in tokens like @SCORE@ that will auto replace in GUI labels. Is there one I would need to use in order to get the text to populate the label? Not able to find one when I do research on GUI labels

I'm attempting to implement a speech bubble for LucasArts style speech using a GUI called through some basic scripting. I'm using cCharacter.SayAt with the X and Y being script variables (textx and texty). Normally, it looks as such:



I have some else if statements below in case the bubble would go off screen in the corner:



However, for some reason I've been able to replicate an issue where if the character is in the far left of the screen screen it renders the text and the speech bubble GUI not quite right:



For the scripting involved: I'm using a handful of small functions in the global script to turn on and off the GUIs, in addition to placing the GUI in the correct location based on the character:

Code: ags

function FindCharLoc()
{
  Charx = player.x;
  Chary = player.y;
  
}

function FindSpeechLoc()
{
  Bubblex = (Charx - 25);
 // Bubblex = (Charx);
  Bubbley = (Chary - 525);
}

function FindTextLoc()
{
  Textx = (Bubblex + 25);
  Texty = (Bubbley + 150);
}

And this is the main speech bubble function (all the commenting out in the first if function are me troubleshooting the issue):

Code: ags

function SpeechGui()
{
FindCharLoc();
FindSpeechLoc();
FindTextLoc();


if (player.x < 350) {
 // Bubblex = Bubblex;
 // Bubbley = Bubbley;

 // FindTextLoc();
  Textx = (Bubblex-10);
  
 // Bubblex = (Charx-50);
  gSpeech.SetPosition(Bubblex, Bubbley);
  
  
  
  gSpeech.Visible=true;
}
else if ((player.x > 1100) && (player.y < 510)) {
  Bubblex = (Charx - 275);
  Bubbley = (Chary - 250);
  FindTextLoc();
  gSpeech4.SetPosition(Bubblex, Bubbley);
  gSpeech4.Visible=true;
}

else if (player.x > 1100){
  Bubblex = (Charx - 175);
  FindTextLoc();
  gSpeech2.SetPosition(Bubblex, Bubbley);
  gSpeech2.Visible=true;
}
else  if (player.y < 510) {
  Bubbley = (Chary - 250);
  Bubblex = (Charx + 50);
  FindTextLoc();
  gSpeech3.SetPosition(Bubblex, Bubbley);
  gSpeech3.Visible=true;
}

else {gSpeech.SetPosition(Bubblex, Bubbley);


//Display("Bubblex is %d", Bubblex);
gSpeech.Visible=true;
}
}

The first if statement was written in response to this issue in an attempt to resolve it. As best I can tell, the line

Code: ags

Textx = (Bubblex-10);

has some control over it, since if I change that to, say Bubblex-50 the text shifts further to the left. But trying to give it a positive value (or even just setting it to =(Bubblex)) renders the speech like this:



It's like there's something else impacting that but I cannot figure out where. I tried adding a breakpoint but nothing stood out at me. Any help or feedback would be much appreciated.