[Solved] Making "HandleTextBox.asm" work for both in game and cutscene text

[tornotlukin]

Dale, thanks for your all your help with debuging code and being a living manual for NESMaker.

 

[dale_coop]

Ah ah Glad to have helped you.

 

[BentPawGames]

Perhaps dumb question, but how does the code check for/know that the screen you are on is a cutscene screen?

 

[dale_coop]

In the case of the Original Post, I think tornotlukin made a special cutscene AutoText tile type. That he will use, only on screens that he wants to be a cutscene screen.

But there are a lot of ways to do that (personally, I used a screen flag... for example, for me, if the screen has the "hide hud" set, it's a cutscene screen).

 

[tornotlukin]

In the case of the Original Post, I think tornotlukin made a special cutscene AutoText tile type. That he will use, only on screens that he wants to be a cutscene screen.

But there are a lot of ways to do that (personally, I used a screen flag... for example, for me, if the screen has the "hide hud" set, it's a cutscene screen).

Perhaps dumb question, but how does the code check for/know that the screen you are on is a cutscene screen?

I have a custom variable cutsceneCheck==0, when the player sprite touches a tile, the variable is set to 1. Then, on the HandleTextBox.asm I added checks for cutsceneCheck, if it was 1 it would run additional code. It would then set the variable back to 0. I use the hud space extensively in my game to show narration.

 

[BentPawGames]

Very cool, thanks for explaining