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Gesture for Multi-Line Chat?

Bodhisatva Paperclip
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Join date: 12 Jan 2007
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05-12-2008 05:05
I've been searching the library for something someone told me about and I'm not having any luck. I need one of those scripts that I believe is triggered like a gesture that spits out a few consecutive chat lines. What would something like that be called or does anyone know if there's even one in there like that?

Thanks!
~Bodhi
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Madhu Maruti
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Join date: 6 Dec 2007
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05-12-2008 05:25
Bodhi, are you just looking for how to make a gesture that produces multiple lines of chat? You do not need a script to do that. Torley's video here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=6WKo4G8aQBc) teaches you how to make gestures (you have to watch through how to invoke them first).

Ignore me if I misunderstood what you were asking for. :)
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Imnotgoing Sideways
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Join date: 17 Nov 2007
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05-12-2008 07:00
That sounds like a notecard reader to me. Those can be made or had as freebies very easily. I keep putting off making my own reader HUD... But that's just my laziness... If I get bored enough tonight? .... (=_=)

Unless you're really asking for a gesture, that's simple... Chat >> Add >> "Text" >> Chat >> Add >> "Text" ... Lather... Rinse... Repeat. (^_^)y
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Bodhisatva Paperclip
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05-12-2008 07:05
Thanks, Madhu. I'll have to check the video out later. EDIT: Thanks, too Inotgoing! (we were posting at the same time)

To clarify, I want to be able to "do that thing" like one sees in clubs sometimes where the DJ appears to say several things at once without intervening chat lines from others. I've also seen people do some ASCI art type things with it. I'm pretty sure it's a gesture that does it and unfortunately I can't get in-world right now to fiddle with scripting.

I think it's like the ubiquitous "Hoo!" followed by something like this:

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I promise if I get the script to do this I will only use it for good and not evil of course :)
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Imnotgoing Sideways
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05-12-2008 07:19
Awwes... But teh evil is soooo much more fun. (^_^)

The stacked-chat gesture is what I described above. I have very few like that, and for the ones I got, I ripped the chat lines out. I also have some helper chat gestures that I use to give redundant little snips of advice out to noobies I meet because it's just too little information for a note card, but still to much for me to tolerate typing over-and-over. (=_=)y
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Bodhisatva Paperclip
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05-12-2008 08:58
Okay! Thanks! I'll give that a try.
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Hewee Zetkin
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05-12-2008 12:03
While gestures with multiple text outputs are pretty fast, you still can interrupt them sometimes. There IS a way to output multiple-line chat text from a script without the possibility of it being interrupted. To do that you have to concatenate together all the lines you want to output and insert newline characters between. For example:

CODE

llSay(0, "\nWhy\n...hello\n......there!");


should output text that looks like (you can use spaces instead of periods for indentation, but they don't show up well here in the forums):

From: someone

[12:00] Object:
Why
...hello
......there!