Telling story without using lots of dungeon squares

[Inanity]

Hi there... This is my first post here I think so first I should say fantastic work. I find it amazing that you people can make a project like this work so well - it looks like it must have taken one heck of a lot of work. Thanks!

Okay so I'm trying to put some plot into my dungeon, but as you know there is a short limit to the amount of text you can easily put in a single dungeon square. At first I was just using a long hallway with floor text, but that seems like a really cumbersome solution, not to mention it gets in the way of the rest of my dungeon.

I'm now trying to put all the floor text in a single square, and use buttons and relays to destroy the current text and activate the next text, but I haven't had any luck so far. Has anyone been able to do something like this?

[linflas]

you can use a trigger on the first floor that runs a wallitem_infoscreen that will activate another info screen after its timeout and so on.
all you need is one bitmap per info screen, make a nice background and type the text of your story for example.
you can also add up to 4 buttons, use the wallitem_switch_big bitmap for example, so that you can skip info screens with mouse click.

check CSB.txt on the editor, level 4, right-bottom square.

[Inanity]

Hey, I'm pretty stupid. Someone just asked this question right before I did. Can we delete this thread or merge it with the other one or something, so it doesn't clutter things up as much?

Oh and thanks Linflas - Infoscreens are just the ticket, of course.

Hey your avatar is very cool, where'd you get it? Did you do that? I ask because I want to use it in my dungeon.

[linflas]

i made it, and you can use it in your dungeon, no problem

we'll keep your post here because it may be useful for others as there's no actual RTC editing documentation and this feature is quite recent.