Glad it helped!

thank you!

Have fun!

True, but there's no need to worry about performance on something like this. Even phones can keep up with updating text every frame.

@@CraigPerko Oh yeah, of course. Completely trivial here. Just good to keep in mind for people who may be poking through this stuff for the first time. I know I myself ran into issues with overuse of bindings in my early Unreal projects, so I try to share that info whenever it comes up :), because Unreal isn't very clear about how the bindings work.

Everyone's got a different style of teaching!

The easiest way is to use rich text, which requires a font file. Any font file. From there you simply mark all the unrendered text as invisible but still put it in. This preserves the final formatting just fine. However, you need rich text to do it: basic text cannot change colors midsentence.

If you do it with rich text, you need to check if you're on a bracket open character, and if you are, instantly read ahead. If there's a bracket close character before the end or the next bracket open character, fast forward to that position instantly.

There shouldn't be anything different. It could be that you wired it up wrong, or forgot to hit "compile".

I can confirm the same problem on UE5.3 (it worked on 4.27). Might be a bug in UE5.

Sure! The delays are all values you can increase or decrease as you please!

@@CraigPerko Awesome, thanks for responding! I have one more question. How would I go about creating multiple different sentences, that are triggered with either separate trigger boxes, or in a certain order when the trigger box is collided with. I originally tried to copy the widget and rename it and add it to the level blueprint. However, when I enter the trigger box, both sentences appear at the same time. Any advice? (Hope I worded this correctly) Thank you again!

@@missunknowngaming6890 There's a few ways to do that. If the trigger currently plays a property that's a string, next to where that type is specified, there's a little icon. If you click that, you can change it from just one string to an ARRAY of strings. Then you can either start at index 0 (the first index) and increment by one each time, or you can simply take the one at zero, use it, then remove it from the array forever. Either way, you'll need to trigger that action repeatedly. I don't know whether you want it to trigger when each TypewriterText closes, or each time the player enters the trigger volume. It's up to you.

Also, there's a few other comments on this video that may help.

Sure. First, there's automatically multiple lines of text as the text gets long. But you can also either embed /n into the text to do a carriage return, or simply have two of these objects to do multiple lines at once.

No, sorry. I don't use Unity any more.

@@CraigPerko I'm kind of sad to hear that, you were one of the people I watched while first learning Unity. What made you switch?

​@@celestialamber174 It's clear to me that Unity is caught in a death spiral, chasing after Unreal, sabotaging themselves.

@@CraigPerko I see. Do you think I should switch?

@@celestialamber174 I don't know anything about you or your situation. But I do believe Unity is on the way out. I would at least consider other options, even if you choose not to switch at the moment.

I’m trying to do the same, did you ever figure it out?

@@3d.bysarah I got it to work. Took a lot of work and coding though. Let me open the project and check it all out again to refresh my memory. This was a long time ago so my bad if I don't fully explain it well xD I got the dialogue widget (Dialogue_UI), my NPC_Base (Character BP), and my FIeldPlayerCharacter (another Character BP). I'll include the essentials of each (or try to). Dialogue_UI has two "text" widgets, one for the actual dialogue (NPC_Dialogue_Text) and one for the npc name. I'll just focus on the dialogue here. NPC_Dialogue_Text has "isVariable" activated and under Content has a function (hit create binding) "RenderTextFluid" I called it. In the Graph section Event Graph is empty. I got two functions, "RenderTextFluid" and "GetNextLineOfDialogue" (that one gets called in other places, like NPC_Base). As for variables (mostly all with instance editable and expose on spawn on) there's: - Text (text array) - TextRow (integer) - NPC (object ref to NPC_Base) - DisplayText (string) - FullText (string) - CurrentIndex (integer) - CurrentCharIndex) (integer) *Functions' Graphs* RenderTextFluid Function: 1) RenderTextFluid with output of "ReturnValue" as a single text -> Branch (Condition: FullText === DisplayText) 2) Branch True -> Return Node (Drag in the DisplayText variable and drag "To Text (String)" out of it, then connect that to the Return Value of Return Node) 3) Branch False -> New Branch (Condition: CurrentCharIndex "Set Display Text" (left node: "Get Substring" w/ "FullText" on "Source String" and "CurrentCharIndex" on "Length") -> Set DisplayCurrentCharIndex a) SetDisplayCurrentCharIndex left node -> CurrentCharIndex" -> "+" node and add "1" -> left node of "Set CurrentCharIndex" b) SetDisplayCurrentCharIndex right -> Connect to "Return Node" 4.2) New Branch False -> "Return Node" GetNextLineOfDialogue (this one doesn't have an output in the Return Node): 1) GetNextLineOfDialogue -> "Set FullText" a) Drag in the "Text" array variable and drag out of it "Get (a ref)" and drag the CurrentIndex var into that b) When you drag the "Get" into the SetFullText it'll make a "convert to string" node 2) SetFullText -> "SetDisplayText" -> "SetCurrentCharIndex" -> "SetCurrentIndex" (SetDisplayText and SetCurrentCharIndex are left unchanged) a) Drag in "CurrentIndex" -> "+" node and add "1" -> connect it to SetCurrentIndex 3) SetCurrentIndex -> "Return Node" I'll keep going in another reply cuz it's getting quite long 😅 That's Dialogue_UI done though.

I forgot something. Aside from the widget and the two character BPs, there's also an Interface BP (called it NPC_Interact). In there all you need to do is create two functions and give them names, that's all. I got "ActivateDialogue" and "NextLineOfDialogue" (not to be confused with the Dialogue_UI function of the same name). That's it there, you can close the BP. Now the NPC_Base, which has quite a bit more. I'll include only the dialogue stuff. No functions here, everything's in the Event Graph. *Variables* - DialogueUI (object reference of Dialogue_UI) - NPCText (text array) - FieldPlayerRef (object reference of FieldPlayerCharacter) *Add a "Box" component in the Viewport, and in it add "On Component Begin Overlap" and "On Component End Overlap". *Event Graph* There are gonna be 4 different threads here. Thread 1 1) OnComponentBeginOverlap -> "Cast To FieldPlayerCharacter" (connect "Other Actor" to "Object") -> "Set FieldPlayerRef" (connect AsFieldPlayerCharacter to FieldPlayerRef) 2) SetFieldPlayerRef -> "Create Widget" (class "Dialogue_UI" | Text Row "-1" | NPC "Self") -> "Set Dialogue_UI" (connect it via the widget node's Return Value) -> "Add To Viewport" 3) Add to Viewport -> Branch (Condition: From "SetPlayerFieldRef" drag out "Get NPCBase" and connect that to "==" and connect that to the condition) 4) Branch True -> drag out "Set NPCBase" similarly and connect it to "True" (connect "Self" to "NPCBase" in the "Set") Thread 2 1) OnComponentEndOverlap -> "Cast To FieldPlayerCharacter" (connect "Other Actor" to "Object") -> *Exec* "? Is Valid" (Input Object "DialogueUI) 2) "Is Valid" -> Drag "Remove From Parent" from "DialogueUI" and connect that to *Is Valid* -> Branch 3) Branch (Condition: From "AsFieldPlayerCharacter" from the initial "CastTo..." drag "Get NPCBase" and connect it to "=="; unlike the first thread, here add "self" to the other "==" node 4) Branch True -> Set NPCBase (Drag it from the "CastTo..." like the previous step Thread 3 *Begin Dialogue* 1) "Event Activate Dialogue" (from NPC_Interact) -> Drag in DialogueUI and drag "Set TextRow" out of it; connect it to the event -> Drag "Set Text" from DialogueUI; connect to previous Set node 2) Set Text -> in the Text array spot, drag in and connect "NPCText" -> Drag "Set Visibility" from DialogueUI and connect to "Set Text" 2.1) Here in Set Visibility I have a few targets, all from DialogueUI, essentially all the visuals of the dialogue box, but the only essential is NPC_Dialogue_Text. Put "In Visibility" as "Visible" 3) Set Visibility -> GetNextLineOfDialogue (IMPORTANT: drag it from DialogueUI. Don't confuse it with the other NextLineOfDialogue from the Interface BP, that's nect) Thread 4 *Next Line* 1) Event Next Line Of Dialogue (from NPC Interact) -> Branch (Condition: 1.1) 1.1) Drag in "DialogueUI" -> "Get TextRow" -> "+" (add 1) -> create and connect to top part of ">" 1.2) Drag in "NPCText" -> "Length" -> "-" (subtract 1) -> connect to bottom of ">" 1.3) Connect ">" to Condition 2) Branch True -> Drag "Set Visibility" from DialogueUI and connect to True (add same targets as before but this time set visibility to "Hidden") 3) Branch False -> Drag in "DialogueUI" and drag out "Set TextRow"; connect to False 4) Set Text Row -> From DialogueUI also drag out "GetNextLineOfDialogue" and connect it to Set Text Row right side *I forgot to mention. In the variable "TextRow" of the Dialogue_UI widget, make the default value -1 LAST PART Finally the FieldPlayerCharacter. This part's pretty short. Let's start with the variables, just two (related to dialogue): *Variables* - "IsDialogueOpen" (boolean, starts unticked) - "NPC_Base" (object reference NPCBase) *FieldPlayerCharacter Event Graph* Thread 1 1) Add "Custom Event" (I called mine "EndDialogue") -> "Set IsDialogueOpen" (leave it unticked) Thread 2 1) Whatever key/button you want to use so as to interact with the NPC (when pressed) -> Branch (Condition: Drag in NPC_base -> "Not Equal" connect to Condition) 2) Branch True -> Second Branch (Condition: "IsDialogueOpen") 3) Second Branch True -> "NextLineOfDialogue" (from NPC Interact) (make the target "NPCBase) 3) Second Branch False -> "ActivateDialogue" (from NPC Interact) (make the target "NPCBase) -> "Set IsDialogueOpen" (activate the tick) Finally everything's now done and should work. Just drag the NPC_Base BP into the game and add some text to its "NPCText" array