Play dialog

Play dialog is an Effect which is accessed from the Triggers menu. You can learn more about the Triggers window here. You can learn more about using effects here.

Effect Description:

Ever wanted to know how to put text in on cinematics, well this is your effect! This will display text on the screen during cinematic mode.

Effect Parameters:

Sound: If you want to play a sound while this piece of text is displaying, then click browse and select a sound name. This is how ES had the characters speak in the campaign.

Trigger: After the sound is done playing, this trigger will fire. But first, you need to select a trigger from the list to fire.

Subtitle: This is the text that appears on the bottom bar during cinematics. To make a character's name yellow, put a ':' after their name.

Example: Papaya: Hello, and welcome to the Age of Wiki.

Result:

Papaya

Hello, and welcome to the Age of Wiki.

Portrait: Put the portrait name here. A list of portraits can be found here.

Notes:

Do not add % & " or other signs to your text, it will cause all your triggers to not work!

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