BBCode

This article is about BBCode in BFDI: Branches. For a page entirely about BBCode, see BBCode.

BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a code used for formatting the text in NPC bubbles and in User bio. Aside from many usual formatting tags, BBCode in BFDI: Branches contains a lot of special effects.

Tags

Basic tags

Example of BBCode (wave)

User bio

• [color] [/color] - changes the color of the text
• [font_size] [/font_size] - changes the text size
• [bgcolor] [/bgcolor] - sets the text background color
• [b] [/b] - instead of setting text to bold, it sets the font to the Battle for BFB font (Albertus Nova Black)
• [i] [/i] - sets the text to italic
• [s] [/s] - sets the text to strikethrough
• [code] [/code] - monospace
• [shake] [/shake] - makes the text shake
• [wave] [/wave] - makes the text move in a wave pattern
• [center] [/center] - centers the text
• [left] [/left] - aligns the text to the left
• [right] [/right] - aligns the text to the right
• [indent] [/indent] - indents the text
• [fgcolor] [/fgcolor] - sets the text foreground color
• [outline_size] [/outline_size] - sets the text outline size
• [outline_color] [/outline_color] - sets the text outline color
• [rainbow] [/rainbow] - displays color-changing text in colors of rainbow
• [tornado] [/tornado] - makes each letter spin in circles
• [fade] [/fade] - creates a static fade effect that increases with new letter
• [pulse] [/pulse] - makes the text pulse into chosen color

Custom tags

• [always_display] - always shows the NPC text no matter if the player is close to it or not

• [hide_box] - hides the NPC bubble behind the text

• [hide_sprite] - hides the NPC

• [character] - displays the current character name

• [character_lowercase] - displays the current character name in lowercase

• [character_icon] - icon of current character

• [username] - displays player's username

• [z_back] - sets z layer of the text

• [z_middle] - sets z layer of the text

• [z_front] - sets z layer of the text

• [left] - displays the current left keybind

• [right] - displays the current right keybind

• [up] - displays the current up keybind

• [down] - displays the current down keybind

• [run] - displays the current run keybind

• [jump] - displays the current jump keybind

• [restart] - displays the current restart keybind

• [time] - displays the current time when player first arrives to the NPC

• [reset_time] - resets the timer once player gets close

• [wintokens] - displays the current ammount of Win Tokens

• [wintokens_remaining] - displays the current number of uncollected win tokens

• [enemies_killed] - displays the number of killed enemies

Special tags

These tags does not work on Professor Speaker Box

• [frown] - displays NPC's second sprite

• [flip] - flips NPC's view direction