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Hi,

I am a new user of the Dialogue System. I am currently trying to upgrade from using TMPro to a text component called TEXDraw. To do this I am trying to manually look for the instantiation of the variables and changing them from TMPro_GUI to new text component class. I am trying to change it for the NPC Subtitle and the User Responses. However I am having trouble looking for them as there are quite a bit of scripts and I have just started using Dialogue System for two days.
I would like if any, receive some guides/help to locating the scripts where I can change the types.

Hi,

Here are two approaches you can take:

1. Ignore the StandardDialogueUI scripts. Make your own implementation of the IDialogueUI C# interface, add it to your TEXDraw dialogue UI, and assign the UI to the Dialogue Manager's Display Settings > Dialogue UI field. As long as your UI implements IDialogueUI, the Dialogue System will work happily with it. You can start with a copy of the TemplateDialogueUI.cs script and just fill in your TEXDraw code where the comments indicate.

2. Or, if you want to continue using StandardDialogueUI and get all of its other features such as animation handling, portrait image handling, etc., then edit two Dialogue System files:

Assets / Plugins / Pixel Crushers / Common / Scripts / UI / UITextField.cs
Assets / Plugins / Pixel Crushers / Common / Scripts / Editor / UI / UITextFieldDrawer.cs

If you look at these files, you'll see that they have conditional code for TextMesh Pro (#if TMP_PRESENT) and SuperTextMesh (#if USE_STM). You can add your own code for TEXDraw to these 2 scripts.

All of the Dialogue System's Standard***UI scripts use UITextField instead of direct references to UnityEngine.UI.Text or TextMeshProUGUI or whatever. So if you add your TEXDraw code to UITextField, you'll be able to use it in all of the Standard***UI scripts without having to make any other code changes.

I do have a license for TEXDraw, so if you do this and would like to share the code, I can incorporate it back into the original UITextField. This way you won't have to constantly reapply your modifications whenever you update the Dialogue System.

Hi Tony,

Recently just got back into Unity and remembered to post an update.
I have successfully integrated TEXDraw into the Dialogue System with the approach you provided, and I would like to share my code. How should I do so?

Hi! Welcome back!

If your code is on GitHub, you could share a GitHub link. (Please exclude the Dialogue System itself from the repository so it isn't freely downloadable by anyone in the world.)

Or you can export the code as a unityproject file and post it here, and I can put it on the Dialogue System Extras page.