So I'm finding myself hunting for solutions to simply put a pop up text box on screen with formatted text (bold, italics, etc.). Currently, the closest I've come within AC is to make an offscreen NPC that has no audio file. I would then send that dialogue text to a menu. The problem I'm having is that I can't do any type of rich text formatting. It would be super cool to have some way to either...
A. Have it as an action and be able to edit it right in the action editor without having to have any character attached.
B. Pull all of the text from an xml document (this way, other people working on the project can make edits external to Unity).
Anyways, this is what I'm attempting to solve at the moment.
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I've been looking into this, and .. it already seems to be a feature! Are you using the latest Unity release? Rich text seems to work just fine in menus: try setting a label's text to "<b>This is in bold</b>".
More rich text syntax can be found on Unity's page here - it seems to work just fine with the menu system.
<dialog02> "Who are you?" </dialog02>
How would I go about just displaying the text without the XML handles?