Text & Dialogue

Control Characters

Symbol	Description
`[G]`	Represents Gold
`[I]`	Represents the current ITEM (used when dropping items)
`^[1-9]`	This is a control character that tells Undertale to wait a certain amount of frames before continuing to write dialogue. It is most commonly used right before commas and ellipses. Each number corresponds to a different amount of frames. Undertale runs at 30 frames per second. `1`: 5 frames. `2`: 10 frames. `3`: 15 frames. `4`: 20 frames. `5`: 30 frames. `6`: 40 frames. `7`: 60 frames. `8`: 90 frames. `9`: 150 frames.
`/`	This is a control character that tells Undertale to stop writing dialogue for the current message. This doesn’t end the conversation, as pressing [CONFIRM] advances the text to the next message.
`/%`	This is a control character that tells Undertale to stop writing dialogue for the current message. After pressing [CONFIRM], the dialogue box goes away.
`%%`	This is a control character that tells Undertale to immediately close the dialogue box after it is reached.
`\`	When using a control character with a backslash () in it, you must escape the backslash with another backslash. For example, `\\E1` is a valid control character that tells Undertale to change the current character’s emotion to index 1.
`\E[alphanumeric]`	This a control character that tells Undertale to change the current face’s emotion. The number or letter after “E” tells Undertale what emotion index to use. `0-9` uses index 0-9. `A-Z` uses indexes 10-35. `a-z` uses indexes 36-60.
`[1-9]`	Refers to arguments 1-9 (these are temporary variables for specific dialogue or text, such as how much gold you gain or what armor Papyrus tells Undyne you were wearing)
`\(capital letter)`	Changes the color of text to the right of it to that color (\X changes it back to white)
`\C`*	When specifically at the end of the dialogue box signifies a choice.
`\T(number)`	This a control character that tells Undertale to change the typer, which controls how text is displayed and heard. The number or letter after “T” tells Undertale what typer to use. `\T0 = default` `\TS = silent` `\TF = Flowey` `\Tf = also Flowey` `\TT = Toriel` `\Ts = Sans` `\Tt = Sans's Toriel voice` `\TP = Papyrus` `\TA = Alphys` `\Ta = Asgore` `\TM = Mettaton` `\TR = Asriel`
`\F(number)`	Changes the character who's portrait is shown in a dialogue box in the overworld, and also the expression of the second character in battle scenarios such as the alphys date. `\F0 = no portrait` `\F1 = Toriel` `\F3 = Sans` `\F4 = Papyrus` `\F5 = Undyne` `\F6 = Alphys` `\F7 = Asgore` `\F8 = Mettaton EX` The second function is likely controlled in a similar fashion as \E
`\M`	This a control character that tells Undertale to change an overworld sprite using global.flag[20]. The number after “M” tells Undertale what to set the flag to.
`^ on its own`	This (might) signify the end of monster dialogue and the start of an attack turn.
`&`	Begins a new line in textbox, naming screen, and battle dialogue
`#`	This is essentially a replacement for the `\n` character, it is a new line character