Lua Text Doesn't Appear During The Song

[ManMaster707]

Describe your problem here.

I wanted to make some words appear in sequence in a song, so i made the first word, but the game didn't show it, but it didn't show an error either, i modified the code and looked the wiki multiple times, but nothing worked, if you want to help me, here's the code for the text (it's a test, obviously):

function onStepHit() if curStep == 4 then makeLuaText('escape', 'fijvfijidjicjdhfuhfduhfdufrfi', 2000, -500, -100); setTextSize('escape', 2); setTextAlignment('escape', 'center'); addLuaText('escape') end

Are you modding a build from source or with Lua?

Lua

What is your build target?

Windows x64

Did you edit anything in this build? If so, mention or summarize your changes.

No, i just added things trough the "mods" folder.

[KirbyKid256]

You need another end to finish both the "if then" statement and the function. It should be:

function onStepHit() if curStep == 4 then makeLuaText('escape', 'fijvfijidjicjdhfuhfduhfdufrfi', 2000, -500, -100) setTextSize('escape', 2) setTextAlignment('escape', 'center') addLuaText('escape') end end

Of course, it should also be indented properly, but it doesn't show in the comments. Also, the semicolons in Lua are mainly used if you have more than one statement in a line, so you don't need them here.

[ManMaster707]

thanks, but nothing is changing, the text doesn't appear and the engine doesn't give me an error, thank you for the information though.

[frantastic24]

Are you sure the text isn't appearing offscreen

[KirbyKid256]

I just tested it, and yeah. It seems there are multiple problems with the positioning. For one thing, you made the width WAY too big. Another thing is that the origin point of 0, 0 is at the top right corner. When x or y get smaller, x would move the text left and y would move the text up. When they get bigger, x would move right and y would move down. Since the text stays in one place no matter the camera movement, you won't need to use negative values most of the time unless you're tweening the position from offscreen to a place onscreen. Try using this:

function onStepHit() if curStep == 4 then makeLuaText('escape', 'fijvfijidjicjdhfuhfduhfdufrfi', 564, 100, 100) setTextSize('escape', 32) setTextAlignment('escape', 'center') addLuaText('escape') end end

[ManMaster707]

Nope, still no text and still no error. (I'm on 0.5.1 btw)

[frantastic24]

Okay here's something you can test

setObjectCamera('escape', 'hud')
screenCenter('escape')

If it still doesn't appear, it's likely some other part of your code is wrong

[ManMaster707]

still nothing, I even followed your instructions, but nothing, here's the code, if you want to figure out what's wrong:

`function onGameOver() setPropertyFromClass('GameOverSubstate', 'characterName', 'sonicgameover'); end

function opponentNoteHit() health = getProperty('health') if getProperty('health') > 0.1 then setProperty('health', health- 0.01); if getProperty('dad.curCharacter') == 'x-terion2' then cameraShake('game', 0.005, 0.50) end

function onStepHit() if curStep == 4 then makeLuaText('escape', 'fijvfijidjicjdhfuhfduhfdufrfi', 564, 100, 100) setTextSize('escape', 32) setTextAlignment('escape', 'center') setObjectCamera('escape', 'hud') screenCenter('escape') addLuaText('escape') end end

function onUpdate() if getProperty('dad.curCharacter') == 'x-terion' then if keyJustPressed('space') then characterPlayAnim('dad', 'laugh', true); elseif getProperty('dad.curCharacter') == 'x-terion2' then if keyJustPressed('space') then characterPlayAnim('dad', 'laugh', true) end end end end end end`

[frantastic24]

Just to make sure You are using 0.5+ right? And you've run only the text part of the script to make sure there's no errors elsewhere?

[ManMaster707]

No. I've run the whole song script (and I'm using 0.5.2h now sorry for the confusion)