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• ChrisIceBox

  May 2023

  Welcome to the community, @ywywww.

  It really comes down to how you'd like the two to integrate. Would you be looking to just have Text Animator be used for AC speech?
• ywywww

  May 2023

  Thanks for your quick response! Yes, I think it would be great if I could somehow integrate Text Animator's effects into the Play Speech Action by using Text Animator's tag.

  My goal is to add unique effects to specific words during dialogues whether it's between NPCs or the player.

  I came across these two forum posts:
  1 https://www.adventurecreator.org/forum/discussion/9691/ac-and-text-animator
  2 https://adventurecreator.org/forum/discussion/9607/possible-to-integrate-text-animator-asset-with-ac#latest

  And I attempted to implement the code you suggested.

  However, I'm a bit stuck. I'm unsure how and where to get the TextMeshProUGUI instance that needs to be linked to the public field of TextMeshProUGUI in the code snippet below:

  public TextAnimatorPlayer textAnimationPlayer;
  public TextMeshProUGUI textMeshProUGUI;
  
  private void Update()
  {
              textAnimationPlayer.ShowText(textMeshProUGUI.text);
  }
  
• ChrisIceBox

  May 2023

  There shouldn't be a need for the use of TextMesh Pro any more - events can be used to update the Text Animator component when speech plays.

  Something like this may be enough:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class TextAnimatorSpeech : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public Febucci.UI.TextAnimator textAnimator;
  
      private void OnEnable () { EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt += StartSpeech; }
      private void OnDisable () { EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt -= StartSpeech; }
  
      private void StartSpeech (Speech speech)
      {
          textAnimator.SetText (speech.FullText, false);
      }
  
  }
  

  You'll need to use Unity UI as the basis for your Subtitles menu, and have this script attached to the UI prefab with the Text Animator assigned in its Inspector.
• ywywww

  May 2023

  It works! Thank you so much for your help!
• Cintiq

  September 2023

  Hello! Is there a way to adjust this code to use the new 2.0 Text Animator API?
• Cintiq

  September 2023

  I adjusted it so it, replacing
  Febucci.UI.TextAnimator with Febucci.UI.TextAnimator_TMP
  and that helped, but the text seems to constantly pause, or only update when the subtitles menu is fading to the next line. Any ideas? the AC status box says the game isnt paused so I dont know what the deal is
• ChrisIceBox

  September 2023 edited September 2023

  The script above updates the text box at the moment the speech begins. If you rely on scrolling, you'll need to update the text each frame. Something like:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class TextAnimatorSpeech : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public Febucci.UI.TextAnimator_TMP textAnimator;
      private Speech activeSpeech;
  
      private void OnEnable () { EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt += StartSpeech; }
      private void OnDisable () { EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt -= StartSpeech; }
  
      private void StartSpeech (Speech speech)
      {
          activeSpeech = speech;
      }
  
      private void Update ()
      {
          if (activeSpeech == null || !activeSpeech.isAlive) return;
          textAnimator.SetText (activeSpeech.displayText, false);
      }
  
  }
  
• Cintiq

  September 2023

  Ahh, thank you so much!