Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
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Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
It would be nice if someone could speed up the speed at which the text in the story screen is written. As it is, I am reading along, and I will hit the end of the text, have to wait for some more to be written, read that, wait, read, wait, etc.
The work required to implement this should be about 4 keystrokes... If not, forget about it.
The work required to implement this should be about 4 keystrokes... If not, forget about it.
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Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
IIRC, if you click the mouse, it skips to the end of the current piece of dialogue.
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Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
Yeah, but it shouldn't be so slow in the first place.
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Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
I like it actually as it is. It gives somehow the impression that someone (a narrator) is just writing / telling the story while reading it. You don't want to pressure on a narrator turin, do you?
But of course it would be nice if a campaign designer could decide the speed and maybe also the font (a more handwriting-alike font would improve the impression a narrator telling the story). WML examples:
or less flexible but potentially less code
But of course it would be nice if a campaign designer could decide the speed and maybe also the font (a more handwriting-alike font would improve the impression a narrator telling the story). WML examples:
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[story]
[part]
text_font = "something"
text_speed = some_integer_value (representing letters per second)
[/part]
[part]
text_font = "something"
tex_speed = some_integer_value
[/part]
[/story]
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[story]
text_font = "something"
text_speed = some_integer_value (representing letters per second)
[part]
[/part]
[part]
[/part]
[/story]
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Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
It would be nice if the user could, too. We don't all read at the same speed...PingPangQui wrote:But of course it would be nice if a campaign designer could decide the speed and maybe also the font (a more handwriting-alike font would improve the impression a narrator telling the story).
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Sorry DDR, I didn't get that.
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Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
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Sorry, I should have been more clear. I just felt, that this was not going to change because it would involve just another option added to the list. Feature creep, and all that.
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Sorry, I should have been more clear. I just felt, that this was not going to change because it would involve just another option added to the list. Feature creep, and all that.
Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
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Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
I'm not sure, but a time_per_letter= (in milliseconds) would probably be less new code.
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Re: Story Text 'Write' Speed Issue
Well,toms wrote:I'm not sure, but a time_per_letter= (in milliseconds) would probably be less new code.
time_per_letter = 1 / letters_per_time
shouldn't take much code in any programming language. Although I personally don't really care much about the unit, I think that letters per time is easier to handle/understand since one can use integer values. Time per letter might be difficult to understand if one wants to use integers here too, i.e. milliseconds.
Example:
1 letters/s = 1s/letter (which is really slow)
10 letters/s = 0.1s/letter
100 letters/s = 0.01s/letter (which is really fast)
Btw. letters/s would be a unit for "velocity" - s/letters not.
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