I currently don’t have a dialogue system in my project- nor do I have a clear definition of what style of dialogue I actually want. I should figure that out, then build the system > otherwise I chance it being mismatched.
I note that I wanted my camera to zoom in, and have a similar feel to what happens witha new UI/window pulled up toward the player, however, after designing my terminal UI, I quite like the idea of keeping things in world, and so my idea of it has shifted a little bit.
^ initial thought
And for reference here is my terminal in game
Whilst the terminal isn’t finished, the idea of keeping the UI primarily in world is something I quite like, worldspace UI has always been a bit of a favourite of mine, and I’m wondering if I can do something similar.
I have done a dialogue system using rich text once in the past, and 1 other time which was a glorified printstring. The requirement for this is much more advanced, and I think I have a lot more room to experiment and have a bit more fun with this new opportunity.
I need to work out what variables I’ll need, how I want to do my dialogue system (will I want it letter by letter to make it look like they’re speaking? (see the Vault video about dialogue & yarnspinner in dredge for better understanding of that) or will I want to paste in word by word to make it a bit snappier?).
Some things I’ll probably need are;