Dialogue is cut off with a lot of words.

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DeidreReay
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Dialogue is cut off with a lot of words.

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Using Invector and Dialogue system (cinemachine brain cameras) do not think this is effecting anything though.
We are using Letterbox standard ui dialogue but having a few issues. If the wording on response of player or even the other conversant is too long then the sentence is cut off (does not show any way to scroll down, or continue to another line below).
Also if we have to many responses for the player (all this by default shows up at bottom of screen) we do not see the other responses (get three and that is it) where we figured would have ability to scroll down with middle mouse to see more?
Are we missing something silly here? Only option to Reduce size of wording? Any help where to look would be appreciated.
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Tony Li
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Re: Dialogue is cut off with a lot of words.

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Hi,

Can you switch to a different prefab such as the Basic Standard Dialogue UI and style it to look the way you want? The Basic Standard Dialogue UI (and many of the others) will size the text area to fit your text, and it will show as many response buttons as there are responses.

The Letterbox only shows a limited amount of text, and a max of 3 response buttons, by design.

Alternatively, you could add more response buttons to your customized Letterbox UI and either a bigger area for the subtitle text or a scroll rect for it.
DeidreReay
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Re: Dialogue is cut off with a lot of words.

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Yeah think i will have to add some more functionality to it. Is there a scroll retical or an easy way to get more response options out of the Letterbox?
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Tony Li
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Re: Dialogue is cut off with a lot of words.

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Here's a variation of the letterbox UI that expands to fit the subtitle text and uses a scroll rect for an unlimited number of response buttons:

DS_ExpandableLetterboxDialogueUI_2022-01-06.unitypackage
DeidreReay
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Re: Dialogue is cut off with a lot of words.

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Thank you kindly. Works perfectly.
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Tony Li
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Re: Dialogue is cut off with a lot of words.

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Happy to help!
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