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My question is, how to change text color for individual lines, for example making a line in red color, no matter what actor is saying it. How to add different colors to different menu options?

Hi,

There are two ways:

1. You can use rich text codes. Example:

• Dialogue Text: "<color=red>[Intimidate the villager.]</color>"

You can do the same with Menu Text.

2. Or you can use [em#] emphasis tags. Example:

• Dialogue Text: "[em1][Intimidate the villager.][/em1["

The advantage of emphasis tags is that their appearances are set in the Dialogue Editor's Database section. If you decide that you want all [em2]...[/em2] text to be a different color, you can change the info just once in the Database section. You don't have to edit every single node that uses a rich text code.

Hi Tony

I discovered the emphasis tags through this post. Amazing stuff ! I was about to do something manually and it sounded like an unscalable nightmare. The emphasis tags is a much cleaner solution that's much easier to maintain.

I managed to test it on a few words within a line, however the underline box does not seem to work. Is there anything that needs to be enabled to allow underline to work with emphasis tags?

Thanks !

Dave

Hi Dave,

Use TextMesh Pro or Super Text Mesh. (See TextMesh Pro Support.) Unity UI Text doesn't support underline.

Hi,

We are already using TextMeshPro.

I'm attaching the Emphasis settings as well as the TestMeshPro component. Is there anything wrong I'm not seeing?

Thanks again !

Dave

Hi Dave,

Please use this patch:

DS_EmphasisTagPatch_2022-02-17.unitypackage

This is also updated in the upcoming version 2.2.26.

Great,

I'll try that!

Dave

Works brilliantly !

Thanks again,

Dave