Skip Typewriter Effect for Player

[ar4wy]

Hi Pixel Crushers!

Right now, I have Dialogue Manager set up to show both the NPC and PLAYER dialogue.

When the player chooses a response, it types out the response after being clicked. (Some players find this redundant, and just want their chosen line to instantly appear.) How would I do this?

I know I could prepend/append all my player lines with the typewriter markup />something/< , but I'm sure there is a better way to skip the typewriter effect for player dialogue!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Here are two suggestions:

1. Assuming the player uses a different subtitle panel than NPCs, remove the typewriter effect from the player's subtitle panel. For example, the Basic Standard Dialogue UI has an NPC Subtitle Panel and a PC Subtitle Panel. Inspect the PC Subtitle Panel's Subtitle Text and remove the UnityUITypewriterEffect component.

2. Inspect the Dialogue Manager. Tick Subtitle Settings > Skip PC Subtitle After Response Menu.

[ar4wy]

Hi Tony!

The player and the NPC share the same subtitle panel. I believe what I have is based on WRPG template.

If I skip the PC subtitle, there is no record of what the player has said.

Is there a script that modifies only player lines of dialogue? Or the "responses"? (So that I do not have to manually enter \>line\< for each player line of dialogue?

Thanks!
Remy

[Tony Li]

Hi Remy,

You can add a script like this to the Dialogue Manager:

SkipTypewriterForPlayer.cs

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using UnityEngine;
using PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem;
public class SkipTypewriterForPlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
    void OnConversationLine(Subtitle subtitle)
    {
        if (subtitle.speakerInfo.isPlayer)
        {
            subtitle.formattedText.text = @"\^" + subtitle.formattedText.text;
        }
    }
}

[ar4wy]

Hi Tony,

This works great!

I have the character names turned on, so the name always appears before the dialogue.

///

Example:

PLAYER: Hello, how are you?

NPC: I am fine.

///

Right now, the dialogue text appears instantly, but the Player name still gets typed out. Is there a way to also include the player name in this instant text script?

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

The character name gets added to the front of the text after OnConversationLine() runs, as you've seen.

Try changing the script to this instead, which will enable and disable the typewriter effect instead of injecting a code to fast-forward it:

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using UnityEngine;
using PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem;
public class SkipTypewriterForPlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
    void OnConversationLine(Subtitle subtitle)
    {
        var dialogueUI = DialogueManager.dialogueUI as StandardDialogueUI;
        if (subtitle.speakerInfo.isPlayer)
        {
            dialogueUI.conversationUIElements.defaultPCSubtitlePanel.GetTypewriter().enabled = false;
        }
        else
        {
            dialogueUI.conversationUIElements.defaultNPCSubtitlePanel.GetTypewriter().enabled = true;
        }
    }
}

[ar4wy]

Hi Tony,

I have a bit of a different problem now.

I want to NPC's name to be instant, but I want what the NPC says to be typewriter.

When I do this by using:

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void OnConversationLine(Subtitle subtitle)
	{
		subtitle.speakerInfo.Name = "\\>" + subtitle.speakerInfo.Name + "\\<";
	}	

The responsemenu lags quite a bit before showing up. I think it has to do with what you said about this happening AFTER OnConversationLine?

Do you have any advice how to make the NPC's name be instant without this lag?

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Presumably it's lagging because the node's Sequence -- or the Dialogue Manager's Default Sequence if the node's Sequence is blank -- is set to something like:

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Delay({{end}})

The value of {{end}} is based on the length of the text, including the name. It doesn't take RPG Maker codes into account.

Try changing the sequence to:

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Continue()@Message(Typed)

This will make the node continue the conversation (i.e., to the response menu) as soon as the typewriter has finished typing.

[ProjectN]

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Continue()@Message(Typed)

This makes subtitle not showing. I checked the document of "Continue" and it's designed.
Is there any way to delay smartly according to typewriter, but still shows subtitle as usual?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Are there any errors or warnings in the Console window when this happens?