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soarxissaredsoarxissared
edited May 2015 in Help! with 2.0
Hello everyone! I'm new here and I have a question regarding Twine. Specifically, coding.
I want to make certain words appear after X amount of time.
I think there's certain term for this, but I heard it could be like a little blurb of code that would make this work and that I'd have to put it into certain passages before the words. Just wondering what exactly I need to do :/
Currently using: Sugarcane and Twine 2.0

Thanks!-Soarx

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  • timsamofftimsamoff
    edited May 2015
    It helps to know what version of Twine and which StoryFormat that you’re using. For instance, in Twine 2/Harlowe, you do it like this:
    (live: Ns)[Text here.]
    "Ns" in this case is some number in seconds (e.g., 5s).
  • soarxissaredsoarxissared
    timsamoff wrote: »
    It helps to know what version of Twine and which StoryFormat that you’re using. For instance, in Twine 2/Harlowe, you do it like this:

    [code](live: Ns)[Text here.]
    "Ns" in this case is some number in seconds (e.g., 5s).

    I'm currently using Sugarcane. I'll see if I can change the format to Harlowe, since I'm not very far in my story. Thank you!
  • SharpeSharpe
    Do you mean SugarCube? Sugarcane is not a Twine 2 story format.

    If you're using SugarCube, I doubt there's a need to switch story formats just for this one macro. I'm betting there's a way to do this in SugarCube, but I didn't see it on first glance.
  • greyelfgreyelf
    timsamoff wrote: »
    It helps to know what version of Twine and which StoryFormat that you’re using. For instance, in Twine 2/Harlowe, you do it like this:
    (live: Ns)[Text here.]
    "Ns" in this case is some number in seconds (e.g., 5s).
    Harlowe's (live:) macro currently does not automatically stop itself and will keep doing whatever you have asked it to do until you manually issue a (stop:) macro.

    Two better ways to use it is as follows:

    1. If you want something to happen only once. 
    (live: Ns)[
The thing you want the live macro to do
(stop:)
]

    2. If you want something to keep happening until some condition is met. 
    (live: Ns)[
The thing you want the live macro to do
(if: $conditional)[(stop:)]
]
    Where $conditional is set to true when you want the (live:) macro to stop.
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