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[Mr B]

Hey folks,

Is there any particularly elegant way to permit player-controlled hero movement while textboxes are being displayed?

I have a continuously-running "while" loop that displays textboxes. I want the hero to be able to move while textboxes are being displayed, because a lot of the action occurs whilst characters are talking.

I think that I could emulate this by suspending the heroes and having a script that moves the hero when certain keyboard keys are pressed, but this is an horrific and unelegant solution. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-B

[Moogle1]

That's really the only way to do it, B. You can't use the built-ins for that kind of thing.
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[AdrianX]

..if it's the npcs that you want to move while there are textboxes it's pretty easy;just don't use any "suspend npcs" in your script..but i bet you already know that
..if you're talking about the heros moving while there is a text box displayed,i guess all you can do is let the hero move before calling the text box; like:

walk hero(me,right,5)
show textbox (235)

that way,the player can see the hero move and almost at the same time,there is a text boxed displayed.

[Moogle1]

Um, you can put the walkheros after the showtextbox. He knows that much, anyway, he just doesn't want to have to deal with scripting his own walkscript.
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[Mr B]

Well, I ended up making a decently simple movement script. Using "suspend player" gives me the willies, though.

What I am wanting to do is to allow the player to move the character while conversations are going on. In a manner of speaking, the conversations are the puzzles, and the player's actions cause the conversations to change. That's why I need the hero to be able to move in response to player actions while all of this is going on.

I wish there were a better way to do this, but it's good to know that I am on track. Thanks.

[Mike Caron]

That's kind of like in Chrono Trigger. You can actually leave the room while an NPC is talking.
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[Mr B]

Yeah, huh; I've forgotten that aspect of Chrono Trigger.

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