New line for same actor?

[willoneill]

Hi Tony,

I'm wondering if there is a better way to do something that I'm using a very hacky workaround for.

Basically, I want the same actor (a narrator) to be able to speak twice in a row and have the lines treated as completely separate - like so:

https://ibb.co/svrbww9p

Unfortunately, what this requires me to do is have two actors with the same display name and color speaking back and forth to each other:

https://ibb.co/1tXKbGK7

If I have it remain as the same actor, the line just continues on without spacing and giving the character name again:

https://ibb.co/Zz3c4nm0

If I just want the line to continue with the same actor without starting the line totally new, I'd rather just manage that within a single line, do my own line breaks / pacing within it, etc.

So is there a way to tell Dialogue System to let me stack multiple lines for the same actor but have them be treated as totally new? Sorry if this question is obvious, I tried to look everywhere in the Dialogue Manager and my UI items but had no luck.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Are you using the basic Scrolling Dialogue UI or are you using a script (e.g., grabbed from this forum) to combine lines from the same actor? If you're using a script, you can modify that script to not combine lines.

[willoneill]

Hi,

Are you using the basic Scrolling Dialogue UI or are you using a script (e.g., grabbed from this forum) to combine lines from the same actor? If you're using a script, you can modify that script to not combine lines.

No worries, I thought it might just be a tickbox I was missing somewhere!

I've modified my script instead and it works perfectly. Thanks again!

[Tony Li]

Great! Glad that's working.