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• incommunicado

  March 26

  One our recent games had exactly this mechanic and was in the same genre. We used an AC journal for this. You can have a journal have a background texture and you can add as many 'pages' as you like. Then, when the player comes upon a log file, you just have to bring up the journal and show a particular page (or pages)

  If you'd like to see the effect of how it was implemented in our game, PM me and I'll share with you the game's itch page and you can watch a let's play video to see the effect.
• salex

  March 26

  That's what I was wondering about, sure I'd like to see thanks...
• ChrisIceBox

  March 27

  For text that you can find around a scene, I'd recommend the use of Documents over Journals - the latter being more intended for more "diary"-like mechanics, where pages are added to a single document over time.

  You can use different Document menus (by unlocking the intended one / unlocking others) depending on the Document, but you can also use custom scripting to extract their page text if you want to embed them in a custom UI system, e.g.:

  int documentID = 2; // ID set in Inventory Manager
  Document document = KickStarter.inventoryManager.GetDocument (documentID);
  string pageText = document.GetPageText (0);
  
• salex

  March 27

  Thanks Chris! I'll try this approach as well..