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• ChrisIceBox

  July 29

  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/
• Bik

  July 29 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?
• ChrisIceBox

  July 30

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

  July 30

  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.
• ChrisIceBox

  July 30

  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?
• Bik

  July 30 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.
• ChrisIceBox

  July 31

  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.
• Bik

  July 31 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
• ChrisIceBox

  August 1

  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.
• Bik

  August 1

  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
• ChrisIceBox

  August 1

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

  August 1

  Sure
• ChrisIceBox

  August 2

  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
• Bik

  August 2

  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
• Bik

  August 2

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

  August 3

  I've updated the script, try it now.
• Bik

  August 3

  Thank you, Chris. The new script worked 100%
• Bik

  August 5

  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?
• ChrisIceBox

  August 6 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.
• Bik

  August 6 edited August 6

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