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- Beyondgodd
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Hey!

I'm pretty stuck for my game. I want to have dialogues Text like RPG Game.

I used the Text Object and I've Created a dialox box background with a fixed size.

(full text is ""Hi! This is a very long message, but you should be able to fully see it")

Problem is, when my text is bigger than the BV side, I don't know how to add a function to continue the text and scroll my BV if the player click.

I was thinking about counting chars but since some chars are smaller than others (for exemple I or j ar smaller than W orM) it won't be perfect.

I don't know if I'm very clear, but I hope you'll be able to help me.

Thanks!
- fedca
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You can make the textbox much taller, put in the text then set textbox height to text.textheight.

then compare the height of the textbox compared to the dialogue box.
- Beyondgodd
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Saddly I want my Textbox BG to have a fixed size :/
- fedca
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yea, I know.

This way you know if and how much the texbox is taller than the text bg, so you need to scroll or break it up.
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- Beyondgodd
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Yes but how break at this exact point and having a scroll (or a new text line with the next message)
- fedca
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jeCfTfq0ExnJy-_-bhl35rG7H2da5r6K/view?usp=sharing

Made a little scrolling demo using what I wrote above + a mask... would need to be adjusted and beautified for your game.

I hope that helps!
- fedca
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there was a small bug, updated the demo project
- Beyondgodd
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I really don't know why, but the project crash when I want to open it :(
- fedca
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did you download the whole zip? I tested and it works for me
- Beyondgodd
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I was able to open it once, thanks!

That's cool but I'm not sure I can use it for my game, since I want that the scroll happen when the user click and not every time, not sure I can do it with your exemple :(
- fedca
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wdym?

it only scrolls if you press the toggle, just change it up to your needs.

Or do you need some info on how the events work currently?
- Beyondgodd
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It's a bit more complex since the Text is supposed to appear letter by letter, I'm not sure it will work that way.

The best way would be probably delete the old text and display the new one automaticly but I'm not sure that's possible...

Something like this :

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(made with Fusion)

Sorry if I'm not very clear.
- Beyondgodd
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So any idea guys? I'm a bit desperate, I don't know how I can find a solution for that.
- Beyondgodd
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Trying to up for the last time, if someome has an idea now :(
- fedca
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there are a lot of tutorials for dialogue systems you can find.