Dialogue Editor Actors Tab

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Use the Actors tab to add, delete, and modify actors.

Actors Menu

The menu in the upper right provides these options:

Menu Item Description
New Actor Add a new actor
Sort Sort the actors by Name or ID
Sync from DB Sync actors from another database, as described in the Sync from DB section below.

Editing Actors

To edit an actor, expand its foldout. To delete the actor, click the - next to its name.

Field Description
ID The internally-assigned ID of the actor
Name The name of the actor

Be careful if you change the actor ID. Conversations are keyed to specific actor IDs. If you change the actor ID, the conversation may not work until you update the actor IDs in its dialogue entries.

Portraits

Portrait images are optional. If you use a dialogue UI that supports portrait images, you can assign the actor's portrait images in the Portraits section.

If you add more than one portrait image, you can use the [pic=#] tag in a dialogue entry's text to use an alternate image for that entry. See Dialogue Markup Tags for more information about the [pic=#] tag.

You can also assign spritesheet images as portraits if you use a dialogue UI that supports animated images. Some of the Unity GUI dialogue UI prefabs support portrait images; all of these also support animated images.

All Fields

The All Fields foldout lets you view and edit all of the actor's fields.

  • To add a new field, click the + on the same line as the All Fields foldout.
  • Use Copy and Paste to copy and paste the field values from another actor. This is useful for quickly duplicating an actor that you can then customize.
  • If you've added new actor fields on the Dialogue Editor Templates Tab, click Template to add them to an existing actor.

Sync from DB

You can also sync actors from a different dialogue database. To set this up, select Menu > Sync from DB. This will add a Sync From field to the Actors tab.

Assign the source database that contains the actors to the Sync From field. Whenever you open this database in the Dialogue Editor, it will automatically populate the actor list with the actors in the source database. To manually sync the actor list from the source database, click Sync Now.

You can add more actors, but keep in mind that actors with the same ID as actors in the source database will be overwritten.

More information: Syncing Assets From Another Database.

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