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Asked By | MinouPitou |
Hey, I’m new to Godot (1-2 months) and I’m trying to do a dynamic dialog system.
To clarify, I want the text to appear one char at a time, with was easily implemented using the visible_character property of the rich text label node (following heartbeast tutorial on dialog). the thing is that I want the dialog box to appear on top of the player talking(done) and I wanted it to slowly grow horizontally as the text appears and vertically when a certain threshold is met horizontally.
I’m struggling on that last part. since my font is not monospace and I use BBCode (some of the text will not appear but still exist in the string) it is hard to get a consistent solution.
So the question is, what the best approach to this. here some photo/video of what’s happening and my tree.
the tree: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
the behaviour: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
onready var text_label = $RichTextLabel
onready var panel = get_parent().get_node("Panel")
onready var timer = $Timer
var text = ["Hey, this is a [wave]dialog box[/wave] . I know, it's pretty [color=blue]cool[/color] right?","i hope it is working [rainbow]fine[/rainbow].","it's nice outside isn't it?"]
var page = 0
func reset():
text_label.set_bbcode(text[page])
text_label.set_visible_characters(0)
margin_left = 2
margin_right = 2
margin_top = -20
margin_bottom = -10
panel.margin_top = -22
panel.margin_bottom = -8
panel.margin_right = 1
panel.margin_left = -1
func _on_Timer_timeout():
if text_label.get_visible_characters() < text[page].length():
text_label.set_visible_characters(text_label.get_visible_characters()+1)
if text_label.get_visible_characters() <= 30:
margin_left -=1
margin_right += 1
panel.margin_left -= 1
panel.margin_right += 1
if text_label.get_visible_characters() % 40 == 0 and text[page].length() - text_label.get_visible_characters() > 40 :
margin_top -= 10
panel.margin_top -= 10
else:
timer.stop()
if page == text.size()-1:
page = 0
panel.visible = false
visible = false
else:
page += 1
So I didn’t do a lot of UI in Godot so far (obviously) and what I do is that I change the margin of my rich text label and panel each time a new char is added(or each time my timer timeout).