Changing text color for individual lines

[lee5lee]

My question is, how to change text color for individual lines, for example making a line in red color, no matter what actor is saying it. How to add different colors to different menu options?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

There are two ways:

1. You can use rich text codes. Example:

• Dialogue Text: "<color=red>[Intimidate the villager.]</color>"

You can do the same with Menu Text.

2. Or you can use [em#] emphasis tags. Example:

• Dialogue Text: "[em1][Intimidate the villager.][/em1["

The advantage of emphasis tags is that their appearances are set in the Dialogue Editor's Database section. If you decide that you want all [em2]...[/em2] text to be a different color, you can change the info just once in the Database section. You don't have to edit every single node that uses a rich text code.

[davegagne]

Hi Tony

I discovered the emphasis tags through this post. Amazing stuff ! I was about to do something manually and it sounded like an unscalable nightmare. The emphasis tags is a much cleaner solution that's much easier to maintain.

I managed to test it on a few words within a line, however the underline box does not seem to work. Is there anything that needs to be enabled to allow underline to work with emphasis tags?

Thanks !

Dave

[Tony Li]

Hi Dave,

Use TextMesh Pro or Super Text Mesh. (See TextMesh Pro Support.) Unity UI Text doesn't support underline.

[davegagne]

Hi,

We are already using TextMeshPro.

I'm attaching the Emphasis settings as well as the TestMeshPro component. Is there anything wrong I'm not seeing?

Thanks again !

Dave

[Tony Li]

Hi Dave,

Please use this patch:

DS_EmphasisTagPatch_2022-02-17.unitypackage

This is also updated in the upcoming version 2.2.26.

[davegagne]

Great,

I'll try that!

Dave

[davegagne]

Works brilliantly !

Thanks again,

Dave