Essentials Text Skip Tutorial

[AmethystRain]

This script adds the ability for players to quickly skip through messages by holding the B button during them. It works by exploiting a glitch that jumps through messages when the text speed is set to a very high number. So... thank Bethesda for the inspiration or something. It's a feature now.

Open your script editor and press Ctrl+Shift+F. Paste the following line:

if (Input.trigger?(Input::C) || Input.trigger?(Input::B))

It should display a search box that returns a sole result in "Messages". In vanilla 17.2, it appears to be line 1258.
Jump to the searched line by double-clicking it.

Directly above that line, paste the following code:

    if Input.press?(Input::B)
      msgwindow.textspeed=-999
      msgwindow.update
      if msgwindow.busy?
        pbPlayDecisionSE() if msgwindow.pausing?
        msgwindow.resume
      else
        break if signWaitCount==0
      end
    end

When done, it should look like this:

...and that's all that's necessary!

You can change the key required to script by changing the Input::B part to another letter or key input, but "B" corresponds to the X key. Because RMXP is weird like that.

If used, please credit:

• Amethyst
• Kurotsune

 

[HarmonyConcept]

Well it seems simple but it doesn't work for me (17.2). Nothing happens when I hold B button (X) during messages (yet my lines 1252-1279 are identical to yours).

 

[WolfPP]

Well it seems simple but it doesn't work for me (17.2). Nothing happens when I hold B button (X) during messages (yet my lines 1252-1279 are identical to yours).

Did you start a new game? Also, when you start to talk to a NPC, Hold X button ('X' button = 'B' button).

This is my code:

Spoiler:

    break if !letterbyletter
    Graphics.update
    Input.update
    facewindow.update if facewindow
    if $DEBUG && Input.trigger?(Input::F6)
      pbRecord(unformattedText)
    end
    if autoresume && msgwindow.waitcount==0
      msgwindow.resume if msgwindow.busy?
      break if !msgwindow.busy?
    end
    if Input.press?(Input::B)
      msgwindow.textspeed=-10 #999
      msgwindow.update
      if msgwindow.busy?
        pbPlayDecisionSE() if msgwindow.pausing?
        msgwindow.resume
      else
        break if signWaitCount==0
      end
    end
    if (Input.trigger?(Input::C) || Input.trigger?(Input::B))
      if msgwindow.busy?
        pbPlayDecisionSE() if msgwindow.pausing?
        msgwindow.resume

I edited '-999' to '-10'.