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Simple Guide to Picture Text Boxes

Tutorial Simple Guide to Picture Text Boxes 1

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Simple Guide to Picture Text Boxes - A basic guide to using eventing and pictures to make custom text boxes.

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This guide will show you the very basics of using Show Picture to make customized text boxes via pictures and eventing, feel free to deviate from this guide as you see fit.

Graphics
You will need in your game folders:
  • a blank 96x32 image in Graphics\Icons (named 1a in this guide)
  • a blank 80x80 window skin in Graphics\Windowskins (named clear in this guide)
  • your character graphic preferably...

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@FencerX4242 it looks like your ‘icon’ image for spacing the text away from the character is too short, it needs to be a bit longer, and you may have to hand edit and check some text to make sure it doesn’t accidentally roll over onto the image.
 
@FencerX4242 it looks like your ‘icon’ image for spacing the text away from the character is too short, it needs to be a bit longer, and you may have to hand edit and check some text to make sure it doesn’t accidentally roll over onto the image.
I had it 32 pixels wide before, and after changing it, i have this problem now.
 

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