I'm trying to add some text effects to my game by making the text "type"
Here, maybe the pseudocode will make it understandable.
String text = "But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.";
char = characters(text) ///turn string into list/array of letters
i = 0; //initializes i
while (i < text.length) {
print(char.letter[i]) ///print 'i'th letter in list (starting with 1)
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(100) //wait 1/10th of second
i++; //repeat for all letters
}
P.S. comments with triple slashes are things i don't know how to do
Simply use for-each loop over chars of input text:
String text = "...";
for(char c : text.toCharArray()) {
System.out.print(c);
Thread.sleep(100);
}
System.out.println();
While Sasha's answer already outlines how to do it, to create a really nice-looking typing effect it's important to not always wait the same time between keystrokes.
A human types at different speeds. Usually they have longer pauses before special letters that lie in inconvenient places on the keyboard (think 'z','`' and similar) and makes a longer pause before beginning a new word (or new sentence)
As such you should for the best "typing" experience add a randomization to the sleep-time you have in your game.
Consider the following:
String text = "...";
for (char c : text.toCharArray()) {
// additional sleeping for special characters
if (specialChars.contains(c)) {
Thread.sleep(random.nextInt(40) + 15);
}
System.out.print(c);
Thread.sleep(random.nextInt(90) + 30);
}
These numbers could probably use a little fine-tuning, but that should give you the gist of what's necessary
