Story Teller GUI

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#1
  • What are you attempting to achieve? - Hello, I am attempting to achieve a system where you have a GUI, and I have a text table and it should follow the order of text in the table to replicate onto the GUI. Like in the game Roses, where in the beginning there is a text subtitle and it follows a particular order… I have tried doing a method but it isn’t working for me.
  • What is the issue? - I cannot get it to work
  • What solutions have you tried so far? - I tried a solution where you do something like this
local text = {
	["Story1"] = "I have been trapped in this wasteland for over 5 years...",
	["Story2"] = "Text here blah blah",
	["Story3"] = "Another story here"
}

for i = 1, #text do
	script.Parent.StoryTeller.Text = string.sub(1, i)
	wait()
end

^^^ This is from a tutorial by SteadyOn but I tweaked it a little bit but yeah it doesn’t work.

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#2 
for i = 1, #text do

That does mean you are reffering to the table, not the actual text. I think you want to write something like this instead:

for i = 1, #text["Story1"] do
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#3 
local text = {
	["Story1"] = "I have been trapped in this wasteland for over 5 years...",
	["Story2"] = "Text here blah blah",
	["Story3"] = "Another story here"
}
local Story = 1

for i = 1, #text[Story] do
	script.Parent.StoryTeller.Text = string.sub(1, i)
	wait()
end
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#4

You have to access the actual story key to get the string. You were also trying to substring, but didn’t specify the actual story text.

local text = {
	["Story1"] = "I have been trapped in this wasteland for over 5 years...",
	["Story2"] = "Text here blah blah",
	["Story3"] = "Another story here"
}

for i = 1, #text["Story1"] do
	script.Parent.StoryTeller.Text = text["Story1"]:sub(1, i);
	wait()
end
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#5

Thank you, that works but it only is showing the first line of the story it doesn’t go to the next [“Story2”]

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#6

This will go through each story, and play them by looping through the text array with a 1 second delay between lines.

local text = {
	"I have been trapped in this wasteland for over 5 years...",
	"Text here blah blah",
	"Another story here"
}

for StoryLine = 1, #text do
	local Story = text[StoryLine]
	for i = 1, #Story do
		script.Parent.StoryTeller.Text = Story:sub(1, i);
		wait()
	end
	wait(1)
end
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#7

You can actually loop through the elements of a table without hard-coding its length.

for storyLine, story in pairs(text) do -- this is a generic for loop
	for i = 1, #story do
		script.Parent.StoryTeller.Text = story:sub(1, i)
		wait()
	end
	wait(1)
end

It’s better to stay away from hard-coding anything when you can, since it’s much easier to just add another key-value pair to the table than it is to look for everywhere he might’ve hard-coded its length.

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#8

That was my original code, but I changed it to a hardcoded length because dictionaries have no order. Meaning the story played in a random order, rather than the desired one.
Ideally, you’d set text to an array, rather than a dictionary.

I updated my code with an array instead, because you are correct hardcoded values aren’t the best.

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#9

Yeah, it would be much better to use an array in this situation. This isn’t really what dictionaries are meant for.

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