Scribble - The Basics - Text Effects in GameMaker

[@GameJam230]

Wow this already exists. I started manually making scripts for changing fonts and colors mid-text, and sprites. It worked decently for what I needed it for, but my God this is so much simpler.

[@wenamedthem]

PLEASE MAKE MORE. This tutorial was simple and indepth and I need more on Scribble! I just started using it and have been digging around trying to find tutorials or written examples and I have a feeling your videos will be the best options

[@alannaokun2842]

Just wanted to let you know that your videos have been insanely helpful as I've been implementing Scribble (and Chatterbox) over the past few weeks! Really appreciate them and you'll have an eager audience if you make more!

[@brycea5452]

Oh shit, so excited when I saw this video in my subscription box

[@levelupgames5807]

Awesome video. Thanks for a great tutorial. To the point. Easy to understand

[@tibisoft]

Thanks for the introduction of Scribble, I have just found it right in time. :) Spent sime time to find out what you also told at the end of the video about black color. :) Spoiler for the others: you should not use c_black for draw_set_color function before scribble effects in default mode otherwise you will not see the color-effect. Similar for inserted sprites, the set color will blend your sprite (both pre-set by draw_set_color and inline colour code).

[@Bokaley]

Thank you, very nice to watch your videos

[@Joaquynn]

mfg This is super practical, it is amazing, thanks for this

[@bgdog31]

I added this feature to shaun spaldings speech bubble tutorial. anyone know how I can make it so that the box dosent pause when i add things like [c_green] to the text?

[@CappicheGames]

I've also been looking for an answer to this

[@cancerbero3958]

0:06 How you make the effect in "in line font-changes"? Can be interesting to see the code of the message with you start the video.

[@hristoborisov3713]

thank you for this amazing asset

[@Mightyjordy]

Ok I know I’m a bit late to this, but I’m desperate for part 2 to this! Would love to learn how the typewriter feature works! I genuinely can’t figure it out based on the documentation

[@Mightyjordy]

Oh and to clarify I’m talking about the typewriter built into scribble that works with pauses and delays…I think they might be called typists

[@DaigoDX]

man ive looked everywhere and cant find a way to pass a make scriible display a string varaiable. any help with that?

[@tomekipro1687]

[wave] not working, not english letters not working, any help? In html5 that package pauze my game, why?

[@PGtheVRguy]

Im sold

[@adrianmarzec5953]

Amazing work! I have one question, how to change basic colour from white to black? I dont want to add [c_black] before every text

[@DragoniteSpam]

you can edit the SCRIBBLE_DEFAULT_COLOR macro in one of the config files, or use the .starting_format() method to set the default for an individual instance

[@joandersonoliveira6802]

have you covered in any of your videos the outline effect for text with scribble?

[@DragoniteSpam]

Like these? kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3zVYoaop8aVoqM

[@joandersonoliveira6802]

@@DragoniteSpam oh yeah. it really helped. im facing a new problem now. im making a card game and the name of the cards are quite small to fit in the text box, otherwise they will be too big and will be drawn outsite their text box. reading the documentation i found the pin formating functions to make the text adjust itself horizontally, but i couldnt find any pin function for the vertical. when the text wraps, there a huge space between the lines and i dont know how to make it smaller.

[@DragoniteSpam]

@@joandersonoliveira6802 there are a few different formatting options but i usually use the .align() method because it seems to work best most of the time

[@joandersonoliveira6802]

@@DragoniteSpam i have used it but it dosent remove the space between lines. im trying other methods.

[@DragoniteSpam]

@@joandersonoliveira6802 might want to jump on the discord for more specific questions: discord.gg/hwgWpnsNw2

[@edwardperkins1225]

Any command to execute a user event in the drawing object after the first time a text character is written during a typewritter effect? (or execute a script or other event)

[@DragoniteSpam]

Write a function that calls the user event and call taht

[@edwardperkins1225]

@@DragoniteSpam The main reason I ask is to do things like change portrait emotions or npc facing direction when certain words in the dialog finish being written.

[@fadeinlight]

hi, very nice video! i have a question: is it possible to change the speed at which characters appear in text with scribble and add sound effect?

[@DragoniteSpam]

For basic use you can use the character count parameter in draw_text_scribble_ext to control the typist speed yourself, otherwise you'd use the typist system if you want more control over the typewriter effect: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6SnYWd3lrykndE For sound effects, you can use the sound() or sound_per_char() methods: www.jujuadams.com/Scribble/#/latest/typist-methods?id=soundsoundarray-overlap-pitchmin-pitchmax-gain1

[@cptnoremac]

Thanks for the tip! I'm playing with it now and it seems cool. But I don't see a way to scale the size of the text like you can with vanilla draw_text. Am I missing something?

[@cptnoremac]

I found it. I can do scribble_object.__xscale = whatever. Why only the double underscore one works, I'll never know.

[@DragoniteSpam]

There's an in-line formatting command that you can use and there should be a state-setting function (won't be home for a few days so I can't check). The struct variables aren't intended to be accessed from the outside.

[@cptnoremac]

@@DragoniteSpam I did find in the documentation there's a [fnt_large], but that doesn't seem to do anything

[@m7mdkady144]

Thanks so much!!!

[@gabrielvinicius975]

Can I use scribble in commercial projects?

[@DragoniteSpam]

@@gabrielvinicius975 yes

[@gabrielvinicius975]

@@DragoniteSpam oooh thx for answering, amazing tutorial btw c: 💙

[@CommonBruno]

Can it be used for kerning?

[@DragoniteSpam]

try this: www.jujuadams.com/Scribble/#/latest/fonts?id=scribble_kerning_pair_setfontname-firstchar-secondchar-value-relative

[@ps4ljaska683]

toooooooo many uslesss stufff in mod