EN ▾
Menu
DE EN FR ES IT CZ
Back Back to top

Using Lua to expand tags functionality in text box

This thread is a few years old. Some details may refer to an earlier version of Visionaire Studio. Current tutorials

  • #1, by Yourichigan 11 years ago Quote
    Hello there!

    I am struggling to add some formatting options for text display in game. For example to be able to highlight some words in the text that is displayed when character talks, like changing the color of word, or using bold/italic.

    The question is can i use lua to extend the functionality of tags in Action part "Display text". As we can use 
    <p>
    tag or some modification of it like 
    <p20>
    to add pause functionality, can we add like basic html tags through lua? Like 
    <b> or <text=color>
    or something similiar.

    Or is there any other way to change only specific word color, not the whole text color?
  • New to Visionaire Studio?

    Create point and click adventures without coding. The free version covers up to 25 scenes per project. For more scenes or to earn money with your game, you need a license.

    See the Indie Bundle Try it for free
  • #2, by afrlme 11 years ago Quote
    No, sorry. Unfortunately it's not currently possible to format displayed text at this time. I believe that Simon planned on looking into extending the text stuff at some point in the future though.

    I would also like to see such things as:

    • color formatting
    • bold / italic
    • transition options for displaying text (fade, typewriter, slide in, etc)


    Your only option right now would be to manually create the text as image files & then display them when the character speaks. It's a lot of work, but it could actually be worth it as you can display the text however you want (in speech bubbles maybe, or you could animate it somehow, etc).
  • #3, by Yourichigan 11 years ago Quote
    Ok, thanks for fast reply! Will try the option through images then... but text formatting is such a basic feature, so i will also look forward for future updates)
  • #4, by SimonS 11 years ago Quote
    It's on my todo list and I already started with some features, but it will be in a script first like the shader toolkit, in the end it will be in plugin system for the editor for wysiwyg functionality. It's also highly wanted to set texts directly in the editor.