Typewriter Pause Durations conflict with subtitle chars per second

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tmeans825
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Typewriter Pause Durations conflict with subtitle chars per second

Post by tmeans825 »

Hello!

I'd like to match my typewriter effect perfectly with my subtitle chars per second setting, even with half/full pause characters.

I have followed both https://pixelcrushers.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=5715 and https://www.pixelcrushers.com/phpbb/vie ... php?t=7819 to try to achieve this.

The issue I'm running into is with the following configuration:
Subtitle Chars per second = 20
Min subtitle seconds = 0.5
Typewriter chars per second = 20
Full pause duration = 0.4
Quarter pause duration = 0.1

When I have a sentence with pauses, it pushes the typewriter chars per second to be lower than the subtitle chars per second, getting 'fast forwarded' / 'cut off'. For example, when a period is a full pause, a sentence like 'hmm... interesting... very interesting...' will only typewrite about half the sentence before just fully appearing.

Is there a way to make the subtitle chars per second dynamic, to account for pauses in the typewriter effect?

Appreciate the help!
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Tony Li
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Re: Typewriter Pause Durations conflict with subtitle chars per second

Post by Tony Li »

Hi,

Ignore the {{end}} keyword and wait for the "Typed" message from the typewriter effect in this case. So instead of:

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Delay({{end}})
use:

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WaitForMessage(Typed)
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