How can I make the dialogue UI look like a phone chat

[ChristianTellefsen]

Hi Pixel Crushers!

Your dialogue system is amazing. I had never used it before, but adding several complex conversations did not take much time. The documentation is great, and everything just works.

However, I am not quite sure how to get started on doing a major modification to the UI.

I need to make the dialogue look like a phone conversation between two people - like an SMS chat on a smartphone. So, instead of one and one entry showing and disappearing, I want the screen to fill up with messages in bubbles, in the order they were displayed.

I am unsure how I should best do this - would it be better to write the UI code from scratch, or is it better to do this by adapting one of the UI templates provided?

Cheers,
Christian Tellefsen
CTO
Megapop

[ChristianTellefsen]

Nevermind - I found that there was an optional Textline plugin, which solved it.

https://www.pixelcrushers.com/dialogue-system-extras/

I do have one question though... the NPC lines are shown, but the player's lines do not appear in the chat.

I've been looking at the docs, but can't find where the option is to always echo the player's Dialogue Text in the chat area after he has selected a node.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Thanks for using the Dialogue System!

Inspect the Dialogue Manager GameObject. Tick Display Settings > Subtitle Settings > Show PC Subtitles During Line, and untick Skip PC Subtitle After Response Menu.