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• snan

  January 21

  I'm not sure i understand, and what kind of Game is it, but there is a Speech Bubble Template in the Downloads, is that what you are looking for?

  https://adventurecreator.org/downloads

  https://adventurecreator.org/forum/discussion/7787/above-speaking-character-menu-is-not-above-head-on-some-npcs

  Not sure if timeline changes the placement of the Dialogue, since it's displaying the dialogue menu.
  There's also a Speech Menu Placement Child in the "Dialogue" Section of the Player/NPC, when you have the "Above Speaking Character" option enabled.
• jamesfootlight

  January 21

  I’ve got all that working, but my player actor, ie one that is used in a timeline, (not my actual player) need to have the same speech above the head. But at the minute the speech bubble is in the corner of the screen as the player is off screen
• Rairun

  January 22

  Personally, I'd just reassign the action's field to use the NPC you want (the "player actor") instead of the actual player. If you really must assign the actual player for whatever reason, I'd try playing with the position of the player's Speech Menu Placement child (either via animation or by teleporting it to the desired location and then back).
• ChrisIceBox

  January 22

  Attach an NPC component to the "actor", update your Speech tracks to have them be spoken by the NPC, and set the Subtitle menu's Appear type to Above Speaking Character.
• jamesfootlight

  January 22

  So, I have attached an NPC to my spine actor, made it a prefab (as timeline speech has to be a prefab), subtitle menu already had Appear Type as Above. But no speech is appearing. See video here, thanks:

  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/eujtdc92c55kfeistsg1q/ActorSpeech.mov?rlkey=lweilo63eku9rgn8p2t6dpoc2&dl=0
• ChrisIceBox

  January 23

  Pause the game at the time - is the UI prefab present in the Hierarchy?

  What is the effect of setting For speakers of type to All?
• jamesfootlight

  January 23

  Pause the game at the time - is the UI prefab present in the Hierarchy?

  No

  What is the effect of setting For speakers of type to All?

  No speech for my actor, but all other characters now have the speechbubble
• ChrisIceBox

  January 24

  Check your Console - are you getting a related message?
• jamesfootlight

  January 25

  So, this might be a clue?

  Speech Track Rufus Speech cannot find speaker with Constant ID = 180650

   -> AC debug logger
  UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning (object,UnityEngine.Object)
  AC.ACDebug:LogWarning (object,UnityEngine.Object) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Static/ACDebug.cs:33)
  AC.SpeechTrack:CreateTrackMixer (UnityEngine.Playables.PlayableGraph,UnityEngine.GameObject,int) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Speech/Timeline/SpeechTrack.cs:72)
  UnityEngine.Playables.PlayableAsset:Internal_CreatePlayable (UnityEngine.Playables.PlayableAsset,UnityEngine.Playables.PlayableGraph,UnityEngine.GameObject,intptr)
  AC.ActionTimeline:Run () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/Actions/ActionTimeline.cs:105)
  AC.ActionList/<RunAction>d__46:MoveNext () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:467)
  UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:StartCoroutine (System.Collections.IEnumerator)
  AC.ActionList:ProcessAction (int) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:408)
  AC.ActionList:ProcessActionEnd (AC.ActionEnd,int,bool) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:616)
  AC.ActionList:EndActionParallel (AC.Action) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:701)
  AC.ActionList/<RunAction>d__46:MoveNext () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:535)
  UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:StartCoroutine (System.Collections.IEnumerator)
  AC.ActionList:ProcessAction (int) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:408)
  AC.ActionList:ProcessActionEnd (AC.ActionEnd,int,bool) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:616)
  AC.ActionList:EndAction (AC.Action) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:575)
  AC.ActionList/<RunAction>d__46:MoveNext () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:539)
  UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:StartCoroutine (System.Collections.IEnumerator)
  AC.ActionList:ProcessAction (int) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:408)
  AC.ActionList:ProcessActionEnd (AC.ActionEnd,int,bool) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:616)
  AC.ActionList:EndAction (AC.Action) (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:575)
  AC.ActionList/<RunAction>d__46:MoveNext () (at Assets/AdventureCreator/Scripts/ActionList/ActionList.cs:539)
  UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine:InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator,intptr) (at /Users/bokken/build/output/unity/unity/Runtime/Export/Scripting/Coroutines.cs:17)
  

  Here are photos showing the speech timeline and the new prefab actor

  https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/wzr548mep0tw01ers4wsf/h?rlkey=c9f7b4zg9loflf0osc7ap4lmt&dl=0
• ChrisIceBox

  January 25

  The NPC in the scene needs to be active in the scene for the track to detect it - are you disabling it with an Activation Track?
• jamesfootlight

  January 25

  Yes, but the speech plays after the NPC is activated
• jamesfootlight

  January 25 edited January 25

  Plus on scene start he is active, disabling the activation timeline does not make the speech appear for the npc The error dissapeared but no speech bubble. I would prefer to do this with the binding of the player in a timeline, so no need for an actor, but I just don't get the explanation, and have never gotten it to work. I tutorial would really help
• ChrisIceBox

  January 26 edited January 26

  The process of rebinding the Player is covered in the Timeline interactions section in the 3D Primer tutorial.
• jamesfootlight

  February 11

  Is this possible with a spine player though? As I would need to animate the child?
• ChrisIceBox

  February 12

  Do you mean you want to rebind to the Player prefab's child object?

  So long as the object has a Constant ID with "Retain in prefab?" checked, rebinding should work the same.