[Solved] Subtitles do not appear "Above Speaking Character"

Xidore

I have the text set to "Above Speaking Character" but what appears to control the position is the X and Y settings right under in the inspector for the Menu properties.

I have tried setting this to 0,0 but then it just appears in the top left hand corner.

Am I doing something wrong or is this not what it would appear to be?

ChrisIceBox

Which perspective are you working in, and is this error just for Players / NPCs or all Characters?

When previewing the menu in the Game window (when the game is not running), the menu assumes that the screen's centre is the character's position.  X and Y values of 50, 50 would place the menu just above the character in-game, so you can raise it upwards slightly by changing Y to say 46.  A setting of 0,0 would place it towards the top-left of the screen for any character.

You can see how this setting is used in the 2D Demo game: the Subtitles menu is set to appear above characters in this way.

Xidore

Perspective is 2D using Unity 2D.

Happens to both Player and NPC.

The 0,0 thing happens in actual gameplay not just in the preview.

I'll take a look tomorrow and compare demo to my game (not in the office today where my project is all on that PC). Cheers.

Xidore

I think I found the reason for the issue and it's my own silly fault: In order to easily control my player size I scaled the prefab down. I should have used the pixel ratio but re-importing all the frames (2D) is a royal pain

When I reset the scale back to 1,1,1 the subtitles and conversations appeared where expected.