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• ChrisIceBox

  January 2023

  Tokens should still be processed regardless of scrolling - though they'll be processed instantly in this case. What's your AC version?

  If you're using the latest release, share images of your Speech Manager as well as details of a typical line text and its behaviour vs expected behaviour.

  I should also mention that each speech Action has a Wait time offset (s) slider that can be used to extend the delay once an individual line of speech has finished playing - no need for an Engine: Wait Action even without the use of tokens.
• MAC

  January 2023

  Yes, you are right. The text tokens are processed, but it's done instantly. When I do a "[expression: happy]" at the beginning of the line and a "[expression: sad]" at the end of the line, only the "sad" expression is visible for the whole duration of the speech. I understand that this is the expected behaviour, but maybe there would be a way to sync it with the speech animations when the "From Speech Text" method is used. When using this method the text token could be triggered when the speech animation comes to the point in the text instead of the scrolling being at the position where the expression is, because both ways the text is processed on a timing base.
  I'm a bit struggeling to describe this in english right now. Sorry!
• ChrisIceBox

  January 2023

  The handling of facial animation and token-processing are independent - I'm afraid one can't affect the other.

  What you can do, however, is rely on the Speech class's ReplaceDisplayText function. A custom script could remove expression tags from the end of a speech, and then record that tag to be set once that speech ends.

  Try this:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class SplitEndExpression : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      private Speech speech;
      private string expressionOnEnd;
  
      private void OnEnable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt += OnStartSpeech;
          EventManager.OnStopSpeech_Alt += OnStopSpeech;
      }
  
      private void OnDisable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt -= OnStartSpeech;
          EventManager.OnStopSpeech_Alt -= OnStopSpeech;
      }
  
      private void OnStartSpeech (Speech speech)
      {
          this.speech = speech;
          expressionOnEnd = string.Empty;
  
          if (speech.GetSpeakingCharacter () && speech.OriginalText.EndsWith ("]"))
          {
              int startIndex = speech.OriginalText.LastIndexOf ("[");
              string newText = speech.OriginalText.Substring (0, startIndex);
              string tagText = speech.OriginalText.Substring (startIndex);
  
              if (tagText.StartsWith ("[expression:"))
              {
                  expressionOnEnd = tagText.Substring ("[expression:".Length);
                  expressionOnEnd = expressionOnEnd.Substring (0, expressionOnEnd.Length - 1);
                  speech.ReplaceDisplayText (newText);
              }
          }
      }
  
      private void OnStopSpeech (Speech speech)
      {
          if (this.speech == speech && !string.IsNullOrEmpty (expressionOnEnd))
          {
              speech.GetSpeakingCharacter ().SetExpression (expressionOnEnd);
          }
      }
  
  }