NPC Portrait Image Behaves Oddly.

[CodePrincess]

Hello, everyone?

Has this ever happened to you?

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Things are looking good...

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Then you trigger a conversation and the NPC portrait image just does this:

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And once you exit play mode, it acts like nothing happened.

I can't figure out what's going on. Any thoughts would be most helpful.
Take care and thank you for taking the time to read this post!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Have you assigned an image to the NPC actor in your dialogue database? (Remember that the image must be imported as Texture Type = Editor GUI and Legacy GUI.)

If the currently-speaking actor has no image, the dialogue UI will use a blank for the portrait image. That's the white box in your screenshot.

The text "NPC" in your screenshot is from the NPC Portrait Name.

If you don't want to use portrait images, you can remove the NPC Portrait Image and PC Portrait Image GameObjects.

[CodePrincess]

Ahh, what a rookie mistake I made. Thank you so much!

[Tony Li]

Happy to help! The Dialogue System is pretty big, so if any other questions come up, please ask.

[Alatriste]

Hi,

Have you assigned an image to the NPC actor in your dialogue database? (Remember that the image must be imported as Texture Type = Editor GUI and Legacy GUI.)

Hi Tony,

I usually set up my portraits as sprites. What could be the side effects of doing it this way?

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

I usually set up my portraits as sprites. What could be the side effects of doing it this way?

If it works, that's fine. Some dialogue UI systems, such as the legacy GUI system, expect it to be set to Legacy GUI. All of the systems can convert it to Sprite if that's what the system uses. So Legacy GUI guarantees that it will always work with any dialogue UI system.