{"id":186,"date":"2019-06-25T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/?docs=shmupcreator\/objects-and-entities\/text"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T14:40:04","slug":"text","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/?docs=shmupcreator\/objects-and-entities\/text","title":{"rendered":"Text"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT ITS FOR:<\/h3>\n

With this object, you can display messages (A huge spaceship is approaching!!!<\/em>), display pictures (a character talking…), and animate their in and out screen transitions.<\/p>\n

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Objects used to make the above effects: text objects plugged to countdown objects for timing.<\/p>\n

PROPERTIES:<\/h3>\n

\"\"\u00a0\u00a0Name<\/strong> text field: the name of the object.<\/p>\n

BEHAVIOR<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"\"\u00a0Stay activated<\/strong> radio button: once the trigger is activated, it stays activated.
\n\"\"\u00a0Switch mode<\/strong> radio button: the trigger behaves like a switch.
\n\"\"\u00a0Switch mode but play until the end<\/strong> radio button: the trigger behaves like a switch, but once activated, it will play until its duration.<\/p>\n

The text can have a start transition, then stays on screen for some time, then can have an out transition.<\/p>\n

ON SCREEN<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"\"\u00a0Duration<\/strong> spinner: after the in transition, how long will the text stays on-screen<\/p>\n

TYPE:<\/strong> the text can be a picture saved from a paint program, or a text using a font.<\/p>\n

\"\"Picture<\/strong> radio button: picture mode, using a picture saved in the pictures directory in assets
\n\"\"\u00a0 Picture<\/strong> menu: choose your picture<\/p>\n

\"\"Text<\/strong> radio button: text mode
\nTEXT FIELD<\/strong>:
\n\"\"\u00a0 Font<\/strong> menu: you can choose the font (see Importing a font<\/a>)
\n\"\" \"\" \"\"\u00a0 Align<\/strong> menu: the text-align: to the left, center, or to the right
\n\"\"\u00a0size: the text size.
\n\"\"\u00a0 Color<\/strong>: the text color.
\n\"\" character timing (char. timing)<\/strong> spinner: instead of displaying the text in one go, you can use this value to display the text letter by letter. This property allows choosing the time between each newly displayed letter.
\nYou can choose the letter sound in the Game editor \/ Settings panel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

POSITION<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n

\"\"\u00a0Horizontal position<\/strong> spinner: the horizontal position.
\n\"\"\u00a0Vertical position<\/strong> spinner: the vertical position.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u00a0World position<\/strong> checkbox: by default, the text is displayed on top of the screen. If you check this property, the text will be displayed at the text game object position. In this case, you can choose where you want to display the text on the level.<\/p>\n

RENDERING ORDER:<\/h5>\n

\"\"automatic: rendering order depends of the activation order
\n\"\" normal > order spinner: forcing order<\/p>\n

TRANSITION IN:<\/h5>\n

The start transition. You can choose to use fading, translation, scale or rotation animation, or even combine all this.
\n\"\"\u00a0DURATION<\/strong> spinner: the transition duration.
\n\"\"\u00a0Fade<\/strong> checkbox: if checked, the text will fade from transparent to opaque.
\n\"\"\u00a0POSITION<\/strong> checkbox: if checked the text will translate:
\n\"\"\u00a0From left to right<\/strong> radio button.
\n\"\"\u00a0From right to left<\/strong> radio button.
\n\"\"\u00a0From top to bottom<\/strong> radio button.
\n\"\"\u00a0From the bottom up<\/strong> radio button.
\n\"\"\u00a0SCALE<\/strong> checkbox: if checked the text will change its scale from this value.
\n\"\" degree<\/strong> spinner: the start scale percent.
\n\"\"\u00a0ROTATION<\/strong> checkbox: if checked, the text will start with a rotation and rotate to the default orientation.
\n\"\"\u00a0Degree<\/strong> spinner: the start rotation in degrees.<\/p>\n

TRANSITION OUT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The end transition. You can choose to use fading, translation, scale or rotation animation, or even combine all this.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0DURATION<\/strong> spinner: the transition duration.
\n\"\"\u00a0Fade<\/strong> checkbox: if checked, the text will fade from transparent to opaque.
\n\"\"\u00a0POSITION<\/strong> checkbox: if checked the text will translate:
\n\"\"\u00a0From left to right<\/strong> radio button.
\n\"\"\u00a0From right to left<\/strong> checkbox<\/strong>.
\n\"\"\u00a0From top to bottom<\/strong> checkbox<\/strong>.
\n\"\"\u00a0From the bottom up<\/strong>\u00a0checkbox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0SCALE<\/strong> checkbox: if checked the text will change its scale from 100% to this value.
\n\"\"\u00a0Percentage<\/strong> spinner: the end scale.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0ROTATION<\/strong> checkbox: if checked, the text will rotate.
\n\"\"\u00a0Degree<\/strong> spinner: the end rotation in degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":136,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-186","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/186\/revisions\/2674"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/136"}],"prev":[{"title":"Sound","link":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/?docs=shmupcreator\/objects-and-entities\/sound","href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shmupcreator.com\/doc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_tag&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}