Feature Wish: Scrolling journal text

Xan

I apologize if I've somehow missed this feature, but I would love to see scrolling journal text, like you have in the dialogue/speech text. I would also like to easily be able to control the speed of the scrolling too (like the speech).

ChrisIceBox

Perhaps I'm not picturing it the same way, but I'm not so sure if that would be beneficial to others - wouldn't it get tedious to get scrolling every time you change page?  How do you envisage it, exactly?

One way you could do this already would be to use a Unity UI Canvas to display the Menu (see this tutorial), "hide" the Text box that displays AC's Journal text, and then have a custom script on a separate Text box that scrolls the text that is showing on the hidden one.

Xan

Hmm, maybe I'm using journals the wrong way. I'm currently using it like I would for a narrator's speech, but the journal text currently works better for me than the narrator's speech.

Perhaps a simpler solution would be to add an option to make the speech not skippable at all and will stay up forever until I manually tell it to go away (The player has no option to get rid of it until they answer a question). At the moment the speech text disappears on player click, or after a while on its own.

ChrisIceBox

That is already possible.  If you show your subtitle text on a Menu with an Appear type of Manual, you'll then have full control over its display via the Menu: Change state Action.

Xan

Ok, I seem to have worked it out. I checked out conversations and they work just fine (hadn't even thought of that). By looking at the conversations I seemed to have worked out what I was doing wrong with the speech too. Sigh. So sorry about that.