The text box in this conversation is glitching out. It’s extending off the edge of the screen and wrapping around, and the text isn’t all showing up. What’s wrong?
This kind of error is usually caused by exceeding the maximum text width. Usually, Builder will give you a warning when your text is getting too long, so please, as with any warning Builder gives you, listen to those warnings when they show up. However, actually exceeding the maximum width on one line isn’t the only way to exceed the maximum width. My most likely guess for what’s actually happening for you is that you have a character talking twice back to back from the same position, without closing the text box in between. What does that mean? Here’s an example:
In this edited version of FE8’s opening, Seth speaks twice in a row from the same portrait position in two separate “character talks” commands, resulting in the screenshot above. The game doesn’t actually close the text box in between, and instead tries to continue the next text right where it left off, exceeding the maximum width in the process. The game looks ahead to calculate the text box width based on the longest line before it closes, and this doubled-up line spills over.
You may be thinking “well, I don’t have anything like that going on. Why would I ever split it into two text blocks like that?” Well, it’s a little trickier than that. These all produce the same result:
Gilliam’s portrait here is being loaded in the same position as Seth’s.
None of these actually close the active text box. Only having a different position speak or erasing the active position’s portrait (not moving to a different position, not loading a new portrait in that slot, specifically erasing that position with the erase command) will do it inherently. However, there is something you can do to tell the game to close the text box: [CloseSpeechSlow]. The [CloseSpeechSlow] command can be inserted in text, usually at the end after the [A] wait for button press, to close the active text box, like so:
And now it works properly!
