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A question about Text Animator Plugin

BikBik
in Technical Q&A

Hey Chris,
I'm considering improving the text in my game by implementing the popular "Text Animator Plugin". Is this plugin compatible with AC?

Thanks!

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  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox

    Indirectly. Text Animator relies on Text Mesh Pro UGUI components to work, which AC does support.

    In most cases, for static text boxes e.g Pause menus etc, this should be enough:

    https://docs.febucci.com/text-animator-unity/welcome/quick-start

    When using Text Mesh Pro in a Unity UI-based Menu, check Use TMPro components? in the Menu's properties to make use of them.

    For dynamic elements, such as speech text, you may need a custom script to have the speech be updated from AC directly. This will vary based on your situation, but a couple of samples can be found in this discussion:

    https://adventurecreator.org/forum/discussion/13732/

  • BikBik
    edited July 29

    Yes, I need it for dynamic elements, such as speech text. I followed your script example in the above discussion but I keep getting an error.

    1) I used this script https://prnt.sc/37VF2VTZiJYo and attached it to the UI prefab
    Error: Assets/jd/Scripts/TextAnimator.cs(7,23): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'TextAnimator' does not exist in the namespace 'Febucci.UI' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

    2) I tried the other script https://prnt.sc/wzMDMs4-dlto and didn't get any error, however, when adding effects like "shake" the whole line will disappear https://prnt.sc/Hb7nsAPg6ltT

    https://prnt.sc/rfFm5p2bEweW

    Any idea what's going on?

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox

    Use the first script but replace Febucci.UI.TextAnimator with Febucci.UI.TextAnimator_TMP.

  • BikBik

    Thank you, Chris. That fixed the error. However, when adding effect to text the whole dialogue will disappear https://prnt.sc/iJuulzV1XANm

    https://prnt.sc/Hb7nsAPg6ltT

    It works fine with Unity Canvas text but not with Adventure Creator dialogue.

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox
    1. If you pause the game while this occurs, and select the Text Animator component in the scene, what text is shown in its Inspector?
    2. Does it display if you remove the tags / expression tokens from the speech text?
  • BikBik
    edited July 30

    1. It shows this: https://prnt.sc/IalItFfByoDT
      https://prnt.sc/u0ryV0VESds2
      https://prnt.sc/8SVYKbiVVBpL
      https://prnt.sc/-ktCQfc-h9Lb

    2. No. Removing the tags / expression tokens doesn't fix the issue.

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox

    Are you using speech-scrolling? If so, what is the effect of disabling that feature?

    If you're speech-scrolling, you'll likely need the second script in that thread. Bear in mind, however, that you'll need to detach the Text object from AC's Speech Manager so that only the script is affecting it.

  • BikBik
    edited July 31

    Yes, I'm using speech-scrolling, however, using the 2nd script or just remove the scrolling function from AC doesn't solve the issue.

    When you say "detach the Text object from AC's Speech Manager" are you referring to this one https://prnt.sc/e0IcGbrF-8nZ ? If yes, then I can't remove it. It always shows the Text object.

    My prefab: https://prnt.sc/9ZZP5drUOyrh

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox

    If that's the same object you're affecting with the script, yes.

    You can clear it by deleting the Line Element itself in the Menu Manager, or by just removing the Constant ID component from the GameObject - it's this that creates the link with AC.

  • BikBik

    Unfortunately, I did all the above but it still doesn't work.
    1) I deleted the line Element in the Menu Manager = same issue
    2) Removed the Constant ID component = Same issue
    3) Removed the line element and Constant ID component = same issue

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox

    Can you PM me your Managers, Subtitles UI prefab and script?

  • BikBik

    Sure

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox

    Thanks for the files. I've updated the script and provided a guide for it on the AC wiki:

    https://adventure-creator.fandom.com/wiki/Text_Animator_speech

  • BikBik

    Thank you, Chris. I can confirm that the above guide worked perfectly. https://prnt.sc/O7AtLXRyB5yj

    However, the new approach has created two new dialogue-related issues:
    1) All dialogue expression tokens are now visible in the dialogue. [expression:normal_v1] etc
    2) It seems that the number of characters is limited, with most dialogues showing only half of the text.

    https://prnt.sc/c17kQwaL4wnr
    https://prnt.sc/z_i2Gd50n5Co
    https://prnt.sc/Hb6qz-tomOsz

  • BikBik

    P.S. If I don't use dialogue expression tokens isuue 2. will be removed

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox

    I've updated the script, try it now.

  • BikBik

    Thank you, Chris. The new script worked 100%

  • BikBik

    Hey Chris,
    The animated tags like , , , and are working fine.

    But I’ve run into an issue — tags like , <color=red>, and don’t seem to do anything.

    It looks like the animation stuff works, but styling tags like bolding, fading, or changing color just get ignored.

    Is this a limitation with Adventure Creator's integration, or is there something I need to tweak in the script to make those tags work too?

  • ChrisIceBoxChrisIceBox
    edited August 6

    It's a conflict with AC's tag-processing. You can prevent it, however, by clearing the "Rich Text Tags" array in the Dialog component of the scene's GameEngine object.

  • BikBik
    edited August 6

    Thank you, Chris. It worked. I've also informed the creator of Text Animator about the new AC script.

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