How can you put more words into a sign?

[Supershroom]

I've tried to put more words into a sign by editing the code (stringing all words with %20's between them), but they weren't shown neither in the level nor in the sign's window. I've seen signs including way much more than allowed in many levels, so how can you enlarge the capacity of a sign?

[-BY]

If I remember correct, it's allowing you to use more words per sign, if you're simply reducing the fonts size for said sign text. I never used this stuff for any levels of mine as I'm simply... uhm not talking all that much to the player normally.

[Supershroom]

When outbidding the default capacity of a sign and then reading it while playing, there's still some space left free on that grey panel or however you wanna call it, and I've seen signs where this panel is almost fully covered. There must be also a way to insert more words without reducing the size.

Thanks however, for now I'll try to make it with reducing the size, though it looks a little bit worse.

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

Basically, the way people add more words than the limit onto the sign is by going into the code. You have to do it manually:

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|73,160,864,Hello%2C%20this%20is%20a%20test%2E|

^That's the sign there. In order to add more words you just type them in through the code, using %20 as a space and %2E as a full stop/period. If you want to add more punctuation like commas, semicolons, apostrophes etc, you can work them out by getting another sign and putting the punctuation on it then looking in the code to see what it translates as in HTML. Like here, the comma is %2C.

It's best to do it this way, some people add in words/sentences and just type it out normally, like:

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|73,160,864,Hello, this is a test.|

But that just causes a bug where all the words stick together on the sign, because the spaces are automatically removed from the code.

Yeah, it's actually pretty simple and it's a bit tedious at first, but you get used to it. You just have to do good playtesting if you follow this method because you might end up accidentally putting too many words on the sign, and then having it go offscreen.


EDIT: Tbh, I disagree with changing the font size. Remember you can view the designer as small, normal or large and sometimes the font size can be either too big or too small that it's unreadable on some computers/laptops. I've been faced with that before. If you have too much to say and can't fit into one sign, either put two right next to each other or to be less frustrating for the player, just try and water the sentence/paragraph down and be a bit more concise.

[Asterocrat]

There is an easier way that doesn't require to use the code too much:

Put a sign in your level, then write as much as you can. Then add a second sign immediately after (make sure you put no other item before you put the second sign), and continue your sentence/paragraph exactly where you left off. If needed, continue in a third sign, etc... Then copy/paste your code in NotePad. Your code should end like this:

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|73,192,864,This%20sentence%20is%20too%20lo|73,224,864,ng%20to%20fit%20in%20one%20sign~1~1~My%20Level

All you have to do there, is get rid of the part that goes "|73,XXX,YYY," in the middle of your sentence ( so all of them except the first one)! Then you'll be left with one sign only and a full paragraph.

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

Actually that method is far easier. Even I'll have to consider using that methinks.

[Supershroom]

Thanks, it worked (duh).

Now I have an important question which I don't wanna post in the tutorial thread since there I have the last post, so:

When searching for how to make invisible tiles and checking the code of Suyo's level "The Coin Bridge", I've found two different tile-ID's:

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0*19*7^

and

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0*3*7]7^

Is there any difference between them and what is the "]" effecting?

And furthermore, how do you make foreground tiles like e.g. blue bricks "undefined" so you can go through them? I've seen this in Republic's level "Logical Forest" and I need to know for making the WITBLO11 tribute.

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

Well, invisible tiles are just 7^.
And the disabled blue bricks are 3c.

If you want to make invisible tiles/disabled blue bricks, just place down the formation of those tiles with any brick that you know the ID of (e.g. regular blue brick = 3d) then search for this ID in the code and replace those IDs with either 7^ or 3c, depending on which one you want.