Unable to see the response menu for the speech bubble prefab

[loadexfa]

The speech bubble appears over the NPC as expected but then nothing shows up for the response menu. My dialogue works with other prefabs. Is there a working example/demo of speech bubbles for both NPCs and the PC so I can see what I'm missing?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

See <b>Examples > Unity UI Examples > World Space UI Example Scene</b>. Private Hart has a child GameObject named "Speech Bubble Canvas With Menu". The menu appears in Private Hart's bubble. It was designed this way in case multiple NPCs are running conversations; it allows you to respond to the correct NPC's conversation. In the upcoming version 2.0 (going into open beta today), you can put the response menu on the NPC or PC.

[loadexfa]

From what I can tell, the speech bubble functionality for dialogue has been deprecated in version 2 (at least the template). I need speech bubbled for interactions (not barks) where the bubble is above the speaker in world space. Is this still possible and there an example?

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

The way speech bubbles were handled in version 1.x is deprecated because version 2.x supports it in a much better way:

1. Add a Dialogue Actor component to the character.

2. Set the Dialogue UI Settings > Subtitle Panel Number dropdown to Custom.

3. Assign Bubble Template Standard UI Subtitle Panel to Dialogue UI Settings > Custom Subtitle Panel.

You can make a copy of the prefab and customize it to look however you want.

Alternatively, if your character already has a bark UI and you'd like to use it, change the dropdown to Use Bark UI instead of Custom.