How to add your custom tapple text bubble overlays?

[Davideogurl]

I see some people do this in their stories and I really wanted to know lol but how do authors put their own text bubble overlays and then you tap to continue to read.

[jordles]

in terms of adding your custom overlays go to art catalog on web portal and just select your image that you downloaded or made.

Use this guide for tappable overlays, im sure there’s also a forum version on here.

Tappable Overlays | Dara Amarie

For your case on tapping to continue to read, within the tappable text either do a goto flag (with a label flag) or input the dialogue text in there for your characters.
If you need help with gotos and labels, heres a guide as well

HOW TO: Labels and Gotos

Hey there, I’m going to talk about labels and gotos! A goto leads to a label that it shares the same name with. For example goto friend would lead to label friend. You can have duplicate gotos within an episode that all share the same name but you can’t have duplicate labels in an episode. This can be seen with a customization template; for example, when you’re getting your hair customized and choosing from short hair styles, all the gotos share the same name and will…

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GUIDES | Dara Amarie

[Davideogurl]

Ik how to do tapple overlays I just want to know how to like tap the screen and not the overlay to continue

[EpisodePistachio]

you can put
tappable
“OVERLAY” {
} else {
}

to make it so they tap the screen or the overlay to continue. If you perhaps wanted it to just continue if they don’t tap anything in a certain time, put

tappable [timed:x]
“OVERLAY” {
} “else” {
}

If you have no overlay and just want the screen, you could just do the first one and position a random overlay off the screen so that it still works but they can’t tap it anyway, so they just tap the screen.

[Davideogurl]

Thx!!!

[JemU776]

@Davideogurl

I just want to know how to like tap the screen and not the overlay to continue

You can do this trick:

HOW TO: Have Choices Without Dialogue

Well, it’s impossible to have a choice without dialogue before it, seriously, you need to include dialogue before a choice. You must have a character think/say something or have the narrator speak before you write a choice. You can’t have a zoom command, label, speechbubble command, character placement, etc. before a choice, it needs to be words coming from a character or the narrator. But, there is a way around this! All you do is set your speechbubble’s scale to 0%. This will make the bubble d…

#So:

INT. INTRO

@zoom reset

@speechbubble is 160 237 to 0%

NARR
Tap to continue.

INT. NEW BACKGROUND

@speechbubble reset

NARR
Welcome to…

*Basically you set the bubble’s scale to 0% so it’s hidden and when the reader taps the screen, it moves onto whatever is next (in my example, the new background). Don’t forget to reset speechbubble or no bubble appears at all, yikes! Also, no overlay required.

Sorry for typos, I’m not feeling well : /