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POPFIELD?
« 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"
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Re: POPFIELD?
« Reply #1 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.


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Re: POPFIELD?
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: POPFIELD?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 12:26:57 PM »
Yeah, it's a good one alright. I think I used it for dialogue in Epicus. :)
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Re: POPFIELD?
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: POPFIELD?
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 08:59:09 PM »
I was playing the moonfable demo when I descovered this.
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« Reply #6 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.

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Re: POPFIELD?
« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2011, 06:12:57 PM »
cool! I'll make sure to put them to good use. Maybe even with audio too.
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Re: POPFIELD?
« Reply #8 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.