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In game how do you do the animating text during in game?

As far as I know you have to keep putting up more text messages, each with different formatting. You can't animate a single string of text.

Although, you have to have the right number of spaces each time you display new text so that the old text is erased, I'm not sure how many lines the screen has but here is a tutorial that should basically tell you how to do it, you just need to find how how many lines to use to remove the old text.

x19 Blank lines
On 20th line= text

I know that there is a lower blank line number..but 20 is garaunteed.

i use animated text systems all the time. starcraft is capable of displaying 11 lines of text at any one time. so every time you make the display text action, use 11 lines of text, even if the unused lines of text are blank. here is an example;

conditions;
always

actions;
display text "R










"
wait 50 milliseconds
display text "Re










"
wait 50 milliseconds
display text "Red










"

You probably want the linebreaks before the text...
Ex:

Legacy, your post would be totally necessary if there wasn't a tutorial.
If there was, it would be pointless! Right?

I'm sure theres something about animating text in the Tutorials DB. Just check.