Grabbing and altering a message, how do i do it?

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  1. Todeswalzer
    #1 Source
    I'm relatively new to scripting only managed to make one script so far for myself and it's one thats been overdone... but hey, it works... anyway thats getting off topic what i was wondering is...

    say you have created an event within the game engine using "SHOW TEXT" is there anyway to make a script to grab that message check it and gsub words?

    example if you had a message like  "I need a dump" already made but you had an option of a profanity filter, how would i grab that message and replace *dump* with a different word and then output it without having to make another instance of the message?  does that make sense?
  2. Engr. Adiktuzmiko
    #2 Source
    Check how the default scripts do it... :)
  3. IMP1
    #3 Source
    In Window_Base, there's the method convert_escape_characters:

      def convert_escape_characters(text)    result = text.to_s.clone    result.gsub!(/\\/)            { "\e" }    result.gsub!(/\e\e/)          { "\\" }    result.gsub!(/\eV\[(\d+)\]/i) { $game_variables[$1.to_i] }    result.gsub!(/\eV\[(\d+)\]/i) { $game_variables[$1.to_i] }    result.gsub!(/\eN\[(\d+)\]/i) { actor_name($1.to_i) }    result.gsub!(/\eP\[(\d+)\]/i) { party_member_name($1.to_i) }    result.gsub!(/\eG/i)          { Vocab::currency_unit }    result  end 
    You could add a censor by aliasing this method and adding other gsubs.
    Here's how I would do it (disclaimer: the following code has words that some people don't like. If you're a person that doesn't like certain words, don't open the spoiler tag)

    Spoiler
    class Window_Base alias :uncensored_convert_escape_characters :convert_escape_characters unless $@ def convert_escape_characters result = uncensored_convert_escape_characters result.gsub!(/Frick/)          { "flip" } result.gsub!(/hell/)          { "heck" } result.gsub!(/damn/)          { "darn" } result.gsub!(//)          { "poop" } result endendThis website is actually changing the word that begins with an f and rhymes with duck to the work 'Frick', which I find strange, especially as this seems to also cover code, potentially breaking things.
  4. Todeswalzer
    #4 Source
    I think i'm gonna have to put this on the back burner for now, maybe it was a bit too much of an ambitious project for me since i don't know a huge amount about scripting and staring at the source scripts for 6+ hours is just giving me a headache.

    Just to clarify, i managed to get it to swap the text, i just wanted it done under certain conditions and i can't for the life of me get my head around it.
  5. IMP1
    #5 Source
    You could always request someone else make this script, if you flesh out a bit exactly what it is you want.
  6. Todeswalzer
    #6 Source
    well this is the thing, i kinda want to be able to write scripts myself and I wanted something similar to Final Fantasy x with the Al Bhed primers, like you'd get a message and it'd be all jargon but as you found the primers it would translate the messages one letter at a time.  I figured that would be an easy enough thing to accomplish but my knowledge of scripting is very limited and no matter how much i stae at the scripts i just get an epic brain fart...