Text Object Hates Long Sentences?

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Can anyone explain this message?

I’m sure the “text object” option is archaic, but this is so close to working it hurts. The object will accept any string I type in before the game runs, but if I feed it a sentence from another object, this happens: It prints up to four letters, and an error message. I even went so far to pack images in and out, as well as make a PNG copy. By the way, this is where I got my fonts:

http://www.tutorialsforblender3d.com/GameDoc/Text/FontSheet_1.html

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Try using jbft.jar to create your fonts for Blender (bitmap). Though nowdays you should be using the text object but with its current state I will not blame you if you don’t (It improved a little on UPBGE). However rememer that you can only write english with the bitmap font, anything else won’t work.

Font Generator.zip (52.4 KB) (Credits to pgi)

A good website to download the actual fonts (legally) is this: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/

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Sounds good, but I’d really like to know why I can’t change text by sending a message or copying another object’s property.

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I mean, what’s not found? What are these “extra characters”? As you can probably tell, I’m using a regular text object for this example, and not using a font sheet. If I don’t fix this, my only option for in-game dialogue is to write everything in one Python script and cue it up. Doesn’t sound like the worst thing, though.

On a side note, how do you even use a “text game property”, the one that says “see text object”? I don’t even know how to do that, other than with Python. It’s okay if it’s just Python, though.

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Okay, I’ve decided that changing text with messages or property sensors doesn’t matter. Writing all the text changes in a single script is much more efficient than making a new actuator for each change. I can even do numbers by changing the “Text” property from a string to an integer, whether it’s a regular text object or a plane with a texture font. By the way, I learned texture fonts from this old website:

http://www.tutorialsforblender3d.com/

Thank you for all your views and suggestions. I always appreciate this forum’s help.