I'm a serious noob when it comes to programming, and I'll wholeheartedly admit it. I've been playing around in the engine and having a lot of fun with it despite that - but the majority of my capabilities lie in examining preexisting code on the website and reverse engineering it for my own stories.
That said, I've yet to find a story example that uses bold, italics, or underlining, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it myself. Assuming it's possible to use these in the engine in the first place, I would appreciate it greatly if someone could share how to do so, and maybe even use it in an example if he or she is so kind.
Thanks so much!
Hi Jaki_Kun!
Welcome to the forums!
Well, as said on this page about the line command, you can use HTML in your line commands:
http://webstoryengine.org/language:elements:line
It works like this:
Code:
[u]underlined text[/u]
Example:
Code:
<line s="n">I don't think <b>that's</b> what he meant, though.</line>
It might be that you have to use some CSS to make it look the way you want to.
Oh, wow. I'm such an idiot, haha. I use this kind of code on the internet all the time, and I used to use it on sites like GameFAQs on a daily basis. More recently, though, I had to start using brackets instead of the less/greater than symbols, so I probably only thought to try that in place of the latter.
I appreciate the quick reply, the detailed explanation and example, and the welcome to the forums! I'll look forward to continuing using Webstory Engine. Thanks so much!
I hope you don't mind me asking another question in the same topic - I'm sure people would rather not see a million topics by the same person, haha. This is kind of a leap from my last question, though, so please bear with me.
Let's say I want to create a scene that allows players to choose from a set of displayed characters. After a character is clicked, the game progresses to a scene involving the selected character, before going back to the "character select" screen.
I sincerely doubt that there's a way to attach a selectable region to a displayed asset, but I imagine it might be possible to create a function that's essentially "progress player to X event when a region within these coordinates is selected."
Is this just wishful thinking on my part, or do you think this is something that the Webstory Engine might be capable of?
Thanks again, and sorry for the trouble.
This won't work out of the box. Your best bet would be to use a normal decision menu, give it your own CSS ID and style the buttons using CSS so that they appear under or above the characters' images.
You could specify which button in which scene you want to style differently by using CSS attribute selectors, e.g.:
First button in the scene:
Code:
WSEChoiceMenu[data-wse-scene-id="my_scene_name"] input[tabindex="1"] {
To be sure you style the right menu button, you should give the
command a
attribute.
It would then look like this:
First button in the specific choice menu:
Code:
#myCustomId input[tabindex="1"] {
Note: the tabindex means which element gets the focus when you push the tab button on the keyboard. The first button in a choice menu always has tabindex="1", the second tabindex="2" and so on.
For the buttons, you would then have to set them to
Code:
position: absolute;
and set the
and
to a percentage of the stage size, so that they appear at the right location.
If this is too complicated, your only other option right now would be to just use normal choice menus for the character selection, I guess.