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Game Creation => GameMaker => Topic started by: Zoo on June 17, 2011, 09:40:24 PM

Title: POPFIELD?
Post by: Zoo on June 17, 2011, 09:40:24 PM

Why have I never heard of this? It's a great command. Why isn't it in the scripting language reference? It's much easier than "Alert"

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: Al Staffieri on June 18, 2011, 12:20:03 AM

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Why isn't it in the scripting language reference?

Umm... it's in there.

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: Zoo on June 18, 2011, 09:11:26 AM

Heh, oops. I looked for it last night and couldn't find it. So it does exist, but it's still a really great command. I think less people use it for dialogue then alert or print.

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: Silverwind on June 18, 2011, 12:26:57 PM

Yeah, it's a good one alright. I think I used it for dialogue in Epicus. :)

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: GMG Kurt on June 18, 2011, 06:05:14 PM

That is a cool command. If only you could control where it was on the screen. Then it could appear by the speaker.
I think I'll use this command more often now. I never really tried it.

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: Zoo on June 18, 2011, 08:59:09 PM

I was playing the moonfable demo when I descovered this.

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: Al Staffieri on June 20, 2011, 04:54:16 PM

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That is a cool command. If only you could control where it was on the screen. Then it could appear by the speaker.
I think I'll use this command more often now. I never really tried it.

Yeah like bubble quote things they have in comics. I want to add that.

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: GMG Kurt on June 21, 2011, 06:12:57 PM

cool! I'll make sure to put them to good use. Maybe even with audio too.

Title: Re: POPFIELD?
Post by: Charlo on June 23, 2011, 04:01:46 PM

This is a good command, but not many games use it.  It's way cleaner looking than using a text field to print dialogue.  I agree with Kurt that being able to define the placement of the text would really improve things.