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say_xy("`8This Text is '3D'",-5,377);
say_xy("`8This Text is '3D'",-4,378);
say_xy("`8This Text is '3D'",-3,379);
say_xy("`8This Text is '3D'",-2,380);
say_xy("`8This Text is '3D'",-1,381);
say_xy("`%This Text is '3D'",0,382);

I think Wesley (of the Friends Beyond Trilogy) did this in one of the introductions, but I just did some more testing with it and found it looked kind of cool.

Yeah I had a look at that too, looks pretty decent doesn't it

Funky, I'm impressed!

Indeed it does, but if you use wait(200); in between lines, the new text comes on top of the old one. So how do you make normal looking lines of text?

can you use variables? eg:
int &here = -5;
int &there = 377;
say_xy("`8This text",&here,&there);

Indeed it does, but if you use wait(200); in between lines, the new text comes on top of the old one. So how do you make normal looking lines of text?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'normal'. Like a sequence where you have one string of 3d text followed by another?

Yeah, you could use variables (and as such could put it in a loop), but I've grown to not use as many variables thanks to the 238 variable limit for all global variables + all active local variables.

Yes, just like in normal conversation.

It'd be nearly impossible to have 3d text in a normal conversation, unfortunately.

It's possible but difficult.

You could make your own font and use initfont("own3d");

Well, I don't think it would be easy to read anyway. But in an intro or startscreen it could be nice.

If there are like 5 different color of text, it could be '3d text'.
But if there are only 2 sentences, one of dark gray and other of another color that isn't dark gray in front of it, it wouldn't be 3d. Just a normal text with its shadow behind it.

But anyway, looks cool.

Try off-setting the text by two pixels for a slightly different effect. Also there's no reason you couldn't use it in a conversation, you'd just have to manually set the x and y to float of the correct character's head.