Subtitle showing previous text

[GarlandChaos]

Hi!
I'm facing a problem with subtitle text showing briefly the previous text before the typewriter effect starts displaying the new text.
For some reason, it only occurs with the next conversation after I finished a conversation with a SetDialoguePanel(false) command.
Exemplifying, it's something like this:

• Conversation 1 finishes with a dialogue entry without text, just some sequence commands and along them a SetDialoguePanel(false). I do this because I play some vfx to hide the speaker and if I don't do this, the subtitle panel from the previous speaker still shows.

• Conversation 2 starts by showing the player subtitle panel with the text from the last text from Conversation 1 for a second, then clear and start typing the correct text. Let's call this text as "Player A". The conversation follows with the NPC subtitle showing the correct text. Let's call this one "NPC A". The third dialogue entry starts by displaying "Player A" briefly then clear and proceeds to type "Player B". Following, the NPC subtitle start glitching as well, with "NPC A" as the initial text then clearing and typing "NPC B".

Again, if I remove the SetDialoguePanel(false) command from the end of Conversation 1, Conversation 2 plays as normal.
Here are screenshots of my Dialogue UI, NPC UI subtitle panel and Player UI subtitle panel:

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npc_subtitle_panel.png (73.34 KiB) Viewed 85 times

player_subtitle_panel.png (83.49 KiB) Viewed 85 times

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Try ticking the subtitle panels' Clear Text On Conversation Start (about 1/3 of the way down the inspector view). And UNtick the typewriter effect's Play On Enable checkbox.

[GarlandChaos]

I made the changes and it worked for the first two dialogue entries (one from Player and one from NPC) of Conversation 2, but from the third onward it glitched again.

[Tony Li]

The SetDialoguePanel(false) may be preempting the Clear Text On Close. Try adding a ClearSubtitleText() sequencer command.

[GarlandChaos]

I added a ClearSubtitleText(all) to the same dialogue entry sequence containing the SetDialoguePanel(false). It has the same behaviour on Conversation 2 as my previous comment, only the first two dialogue entries show normally

[GarlandChaos]

Update: I added a callback to the OnClosed() Unity Event on both UI Subtitle Panels to force clear the text and it worked. Feels like a hack to me, but works
Would be nice to confirm if the SetDialoguePanel() command creates this bug for a future patch maybe

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[Tony Li]

I'll check that for version 2.2.50.

[Tony Li]

Just checked and added this note to the SetDialoguePanel() command's documentation (queued for update in 2.2.50):

SetDialoguePanel(false) will *not* clear subtitle text. This is so you can call SetDialoguePanel(true)
to show the dialogue UI (and its current text) again.

If you want to clear the text, use ClearSubtitleText():

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ClearSubtitleText();
SetDialoguePanel(false)

[GarlandChaos]

Just checked and added this note to the SetDialoguePanel() command's documentation (queued for update in 2.2.50):

SetDialoguePanel(false) will *not* clear subtitle text. This is so you can call SetDialoguePanel(true)
to show the dialogue UI (and its current text) again.

If you want to clear the text, use ClearSubtitleText():

Code: Select all

ClearSubtitleText();
SetDialoguePanel(false)

Thank you for the update!

[Tony Li]

Glad to help!