Noob Question

soarxissared

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

timsamoff

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).

soarxissared

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!

Sharpe

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.

greyelf

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.