First time writing a dialog. Any way to slow down how fast it spits out pull_off lines? (1 Viewer)

[sillyrabbit9001]

I'm not starting from scratch. I've been using SDT for a long time and have so far just grabbed assets from various forum posts. For some reason recently I decided to see if I could take a dialog I like and customize it a bit. Its mostly been a success with a couple of small hiccups:

1)Original author had a like 5 minute long intro that boiled down to two parents putting *YOU* in charge of her. Very dry, too long. I cut it from 35 lines to 10 without really changing content.
2) Original author had EVERYTHING set to run as next: . As a result, once the intro finished it would run thru every handjob, resistance, first_throat, etc dialog back to back without a line break. Fixed that by removing next: from every line via notepad, it now runs as intended.

New issue: Game is way too quiet having made these changes. She basically only reacts if you ejaculate somewhere once you move past the initial stages of a dialog. Changed some lines to be pull_off lines and I'm getting dialog again but it is back to running constantly. I can't seem to find a way to adjust this. Ideally I'd prefer there to be 5-10 seconds between messages similar to how general lines work when idle. I don't recall this being an issue with other dialogs I've played through so IDK if it is maybe a setting in the game somewhere hidden or if I need to adjust something in the dialog its self. Any help would be appreciated!

EDIT: Oh, another thought. The dialog is pretty old and I'm working with a much newer version of the game featuring Willie's Loader mods. Specifically animtools so that there's a variety of positions besides the default. I thought that cum_in_mouth and cum_in_throat lines would automatically adjust to new positions but that doesn't seem to case. Are there specific line prompts for other positions regarding vaginal or anal sex?

 

[sillyrabbit9001]

Leaving this up mostly as a record for those who might come after me. I have the following answers. Please keep in mind I've been coding on an older version of SDT so your mileage may vary some, :

1) Using "next":"sceneX" is a powerful tool that the OG author in this dialog seemed to not understand. Used properly it can force scenes to load in a specific order without being interrupted by things like pull_off or resistance. If you're wanting to create a complex dialog that progresses in a linear fashion it is worth learning how "next" works. A VERY important not is that "next" DOES NOT work with variables. So for example, you can use {"next":"scene1"} but {"next":"scene*number*"} will NOT work. This is in comparison to [scene*number*] which absolutely works. The important difference is that "next" will force whatever scene it links to play next once all current dialog options clear. {scene*number*] will ONLY play if nothing else interrupts it. [scene*number*] style formatting works fine for long scenes where you know you won't be interrupting them (because if you start throating her and pull_off or resistance lines pop up as they they can break the [scene*number*] format). Next commands are what you want when you want to force dialog to do a specific thing, but you need to give it a specific scene to point at. An variable will NOT work, unfortunately.

2) pull_off lines, by nature, will play at every chance they get. So if they are set to {"style":"Thought"} they're gonna run basically nonstop. The only way to possibly delay this is to add the character Б (en masse) at the end of every pull_off line. 20 or so Б characters will create a pretty decent delay between lines.

3) If you're looking for a prompt to trigger when you finish *inside* her but not orally you want to use cuminher. cuminher is similar to cum_in_mouth or cum_in_throat but applies to any position besides oral sex. Obviously this is only functional with animtools mod.

As a general update, I've probably spent 30 hours coding this week and largely have the dialog completely functional through experimentation. There's still a decent amount of bug fixing to do but it is overall pretty manageable.