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Hi everyone, I hope I can get some help here.

I'm doing a 3d retro game, had some issues tryna make my own dialogue system work and bought this one assuming it would solve my very specific predicament.

Turns out it does! except not in my very specific case. What I want is to display dialogues in boxes over characters' heads, like in Final Fantasy 8.



Thing is, I looked into this very forum and elsewhere and the solution is always the same: Use bark UI by dragging the prefab inside the desired object. The thing is that this makes the text bubble an actual object inside the scene instead of a UI item, making the text impossible to read due to low resolution. I also tested by dragging from the assets folder to the custom subtitle field and the same happens.





What I want is the dialogue box displaying over characters' heads using coordinates in a UI canvas (Like in Final Fantasy 8), but I don't know where to start. I'm in the same place where I was with my own dialogue system. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

Here's an example:

ScreenSpaceBubbleExample_2019-11-26.unitypackage

It uses a really short script named UIFollowObject. Each character is represented by a cube. The cube has a Dialogue Actor component that points to a subtitle panel in a screen space canvas.

BTW, if you do want to use world space, you can usually increase the dimensions of the world space canvas and then scale it down. This will give you clear text, too.