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Hey! This is really great! I have been using mostly the scare tag and some atl stuff so you really made my game more alive! Thank you again!

I would like to ask something though. I am trying to add the scare tag but all my text has outline on them to separate each character. For some reason, when I try to, it doesnt work? Like it just defaults to white. I tried doing something I saw in an earlier comment but it didnt work. Any thoughts or solutions are appreciated please!

style OutlineColor:
outlines [ (absolute(4), "#BA7B22", absolute(2), absolute(1)) ]

R "{sc}{=OutlineColor}This text should be shaking and outlined{/=OutlineColor}{/sc}"

Wattson2 years ago

Sorry for the late response but I think I have an idea what's wrong. Thing is, Renpy won't even allow this to work even without the kinetic text tag. I tested it myself and the outline still wouldn't appear. I believe the problem is that for the style {=} tag, renpy will only apply certain properties of the specified style. And sadly, outlines is not one of them. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#style-text-tags

That said, there is an outlinescolor text tag. https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-outlinecolor But I believe this would require the text to already have an outline, which you'd probably have to specify in your say screen. Maybe make a transparent outline that you can then replace with outlinecolor? I haven't tested this but I believe the solution is beyond the scope of my text tags sadly. But hope you're able to get your thing working!

RodaBlackfang2 years ago

Oh I already tried doing that originally too. It was still not showing any outlines at all. I really wonder how to fix this or is this a Renpy thing. Thank you so much for your input still! I will still use this for another project I am working on! Thank you!

Wan²1 year ago(+3)

I know this post is a year old, but I did some testing and figured out how to do outlines with the dynamic text, and I figured I'd drop it here in case anyone else needs help with it.

I changed the default style to this:

style default:

outlines [ (absolute(4), "#00000000", absolute(0), absolute(0)) ]

This makes all text have a transparent background, you can then use {outlinecolor=#000000} text {/outlinecolor} with the kinetic tag in order to give that text a black outline in this case.

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