Text to pictures

polimerjonespolimerjones Member Posts: 50
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I saw a video on gshelper.com where they were taking a number for the current score and using pictures to make a scrolling score.

I would like to do the same thing but with text.

In my game it chooses a random word but instead of just using "display text" i would like to have it display a picture for each letter. (i have tiles for a-z that will be the pictures)

for example the random word would be "bark" and the tiles with the letters B A R K would come out.

Comments

  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    I think this is what you want:

  • polimerjonespolimerjones Member Posts: 50
    Kinda. Except that the word needed to be spelled is random. This video requires that you type in the word before hand.

    So how would i get a random word like "bark" to go to a table and have "b" in column 1 row 1, "a" in column 2 row 1.....ect

    thats the only way the video suggestion would work.
  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    How random is the word? What I mean is you have a list of them somewhere right? So build the works in the table and then choose the column at random, then you'd have your words built in tables picked at random.
  • polimerjonespolimerjones Member Posts: 50
    wont work. i have over 5000 words. i dont want to add them all to a table.
  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    Well it's not that it won't work, it's that you don't want to do it. LOL ;)

    Besides that solution I'm not sure what to offer.
  • zoopezoope Member Posts: 210
    @polimerjones Tables are really fast mate, it may take some initial effort to create a table, but it will be well worth the simplicity in terms of logic later on.
    You can easily create a csv file in a spreadsheet program and import it as a table in GS.
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    wont work. i have over 5000 words. i dont want to add them all to a table.

    how else did you think you were going to add the words to the game?
  • polimerjonespolimerjones Member Posts: 50
    i have them all in a table but i didnt want to have to put each letter in a different column. though excel has a nifty feature that did it for me. thanks for the help peoples!
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