How would I make an old school/zelda style text on the hud?

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May 9 2016, 6:06 pm
(See the best response by GreatPirateEra.)

Problem description: Currently do not have a code, I have literally no idea on how to approach this. When I was younger every commercial game (pretty much) had a system like this prior to voice acting becoming the norm. What I want is to be able to come up to an NPC talk to them and boom a HUD appears with the NPCs text (may it be a generic text or their personal text) clicking or hitting a button to make it scroll down/end the conversation (I assume most of you know the idea) and so on. How would I go about this? (pictures for reference in case no one understands what I am talking about)



May 9 2016, 6:13 pm
Best response
Well, you need to look into:
client.screen
screen_loc
images
maptext

A var to store what each npc says, defaulting to a generic greeting or w.e if they don't have anything to say, and a key_down() tracker. This is extremely simple to set up.
May 9 2016, 6:23 pm
So I need the hud for the box and the maptext definition (prior to it updating via the NPCs) on the same object or can I define them separate and mash them together? (Via making either 1 object or making 2 and calling them together o.o)
May 10 2016, 2:53 am (Edited on May 10 2016, 3:46 am)
 
var
    list/Line1[]=list("Hi")
    i
mob
    var
        list/line1[]=list("Hi")
    friendly
        oozy
            line1=list("Stuff","<b>Stuff and whatnot")
            ai()
            interact(mob/m)
                nomoartext()
                src.ChangeText()
                m.hudtext_hud2()
                usr.client.focus = usr.text_box1
mob/proc/ChangeText()
    Line1=src.line1
proc/nomoartext()
    Line1=null
mob
    cleartext_hud()
        ..()
        if(text_box1)
            text_box1.hide()
            del text_box1
Textbox1
    parent_type = /HudGroup
    layer = Constants.HUD_LAYER+1
    New(mob/m)
        ..()
        usr.showtext_hud()
        refresh()


    key_down(k)
        if(k == Constants.KEY_SELECT)
            if(Line1[i]+1==null)
                usr.client.focus = usr
                usr.cleartext_hud()
            else
                refresh()
    proc/refresh()
        var/icon/textbox = 'Text Screen.dmi'
        if(isfile(textbox))
            textbox = icon(textbox)
        else if(istext(textbox))
            textbox = icon(Constants.HUD_ICON, textbox)
        var/lx = Constants.ICON_WIDTH * Constants.VIEW_WIDTH * 0.5 - textbox.Width() * 0.5
        var/ly = Constants.ICON_HEIGHT * Constants.VIEW_HEIGHT * 0.5-70 - textbox.Height() * 0.5-70
        for(i=1, i<=Line1.len, i++)
            Line1[i] = i
            add(lx+5,ly+20 , "", maptext_width = (Constants.VIEW_WIDTH * Constants.ICON_WIDTH)-65, maptext_height=(Constants.VIEW_WIDTH * Constants.ICON_WIDTH)-720, maptext = "<text align=top><b>[Line1[i]]", layer = layer + 1)

mob
    var
        tmp/Textbox1/text_box1
    proc
        hudtext_hud2()
            text_box1 = new(src)

What I came up with. Right away I separated the objs and texts however when the second one popped up and I pressed space but nothing happened. So then I tried a list, numbers are appearing and it doesn't switch on refresh. Require a little help :/

Using http://www.byond.com/developer/Forum_account/ HudGroups?tab=index
May 10 2016, 5:12 am
 
var
    list/Line1[]=list("Hi")
    i=1
mob
    var
        list/line1[]=list("Hi")
    friendly
        oozy
            ai()
            interact(mob/m)
                var/list/L=list("1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26","Stuff and whatnot")
                line1=L
                src.ChangeText()
                m.hudtext_hud2()
                usr.client.focus = usr.text_box1
mob/proc/ChangeText()
    Line1=src.line1
    src.line1=null

changed this and

    key_down(k)
        if(k == Constants.KEY_SELECT)
            if(i==Line1.len)
                usr.cleartext_hud()
            else
                i+=1
                refresh()
    proc/refresh()
        var/icon/textbox = 'Text Screen.dmi'
        if(isfile(textbox))
            textbox = icon(textbox)
        else if(istext(textbox))
            textbox = icon(Constants.HUD_ICON, textbox)
        var/lx = Constants.ICON_WIDTH * Constants.VIEW_WIDTH * 0.5 - textbox.Width() * 0.5
        var/ly = Constants.ICON_HEIGHT * Constants.VIEW_HEIGHT * 0.5-70 - textbox.Height() * 0.5-70
        del(text)
        text = add(lx+5,ly+20 , "", maptext_width = (Constants.VIEW_WIDTH * Constants.ICON_WIDTH)-65, maptext_height=(Constants.VIEW_WIDTH * Constants.ICON_WIDTH)-720, maptext = "<b><font face=verdana><font size=2.5><text align=top>[Line1[i]]", layer = layer + 1)
        Line1[i] = i

Resolved the issue without further help thank you regardless greatpirate. This is done if the byond admins want to lock it and what not
May 10 2016, 2:30 pm
You have some usr abuse in the code you posted. In a proc, you should never use usr.
May 11 2016, 4:29 am
I see it, I thought it was src xD thank you for pointing it out I will fix that