Anyway, that aside, I’m finally getting back to working on my game and one problem that is driving me up the WALL is trying to guess what RPG maker is going to do with text. I tried formatting my word document to be 5 lines with about 55ish characters as the limit but it’s so hard when rpg maker’s text input shows FOUR lines instead, even though it displays 5 in the game. Sometimes when I place something in there it will be correct and then other times it will create breaks at the weirdest points. Like I want one line in isolation and then the next line to go in a new text box and so I add four… I dunno how to show code on this new site but brbr with the arrows, and it not only puts the line in its own box as intended but then also drops in an entire new box worth of blank space.
Since I’m working on converting a large text-based game into RPG maker I need to be able to format the scripts appropriately but some of the individual scripts are like 10 or 11 pages long and I will literally die doing it by hand especially when I have to take shots in the dark at how it’s even going to work.
I have visustella’s tool for changing the display size of the text box itself, that’s not an issue, but I need some tool to help me format large scripts for going IN the text box, especially the default. Is there anything like that or does anyone have any other advice that could help with this hair-pulling issue?
So let’s say this tool magically turns up. What will you do with it? You’re still going to have to move text around for aesthetic reasons and you’re likely going to have text that describes info you can now convey with on-map elements e.g. any text you have that might say “You enter a dark and damp cave” will no longer respect player time
Use it to format scripts? I know it’s going to still need some manual adjustment but I can’t go in and go line by line to make sure every single one fits into the window size by hand for something with over a million words in it. I don’t have the time or sanity. I can go in and tweak things to make sure it doesn’t look like crap, but I can’t format it all by hand for every SINGLE line.
Is it possible to use a regular word editor and format the font size and page width to mimick the size of the message box? Or, do you absolutely need to simulate all the text code as well?
As I did say above, I tried to just format the word editor to help me but it was uh… obnoxious and nonfunctional and rpg maker kept doing whatever the hell it wanted with the text. So I ended up making a powershell script (admittedly with some ai assistance) to format an entire document into the exact specifications I need for RPG maker. There’s still a lot more manual input than I’d like, I need to manually tell it to wait 1 frame between boxes because otherwise it starts combining things nonsensically, but it’s still much faster than manually editing every single line or having my word processer make it 1 box per page (which is very tedious to scroll through).
Obviously if anyone has any better solutions or if anyone knows how to make it so I don’t have to make it wait in between every box by hand then that would be SUPER helpful. It’s not a big deal but it would be nice to not have to do.
