How to add subtitles to Sonic game?

[Wafi Hussain]

Hello! I am trying to figure out ways to add subtitles to my Sonic fangame since I have voice actors, who did their dialogues. So what I did is I created objects for dialogues featuring their sounds. I created two events for the dialogue object:

obj_dialogue

Destroy Event:
// I use this as a reference originally from a ring sound effect
if audio_is_playing(diagsound)
audio_stop_sound(diagsound)
audio_play_sound(diagsound,1,false)

Collision Event for obj_Sonic:
if other.action != 26
instance_destroy()

diagsound contains a sound having two characters talking. I would also need to make sure that the dialogue matches the voice.

I learned that if I draw a sprite for the subtitles that would make it easier but I am not sure how to do it. I was using the dialogue engine to see if this works but then I found it complicated. What are your suggestions? Thanks!

 

[MaxLos]

Maybe a combination of audio_is_playing and draw_text could work?

So in the draw event you could have:

 if audio_is_playing(hey_tails) draw_text(0,0,"Hey Tails!");