Hi all,

I'm writing my first few games using Unity's engine, and while it lends itself very well to 'action-y' elements, I struggle with the GUI components. More specifically, I'm looking for tutorials on the implementation of this form of dialogue box which displays an avatar and a box of text which the character is speaking, and waits for the player to press a button for it to move on to the next piece of dialogue.

Here's the question: what is this called? I need the name if I'm to find any tutorials

(sorry about the video quality, but it demonstrates what I'm looking for well enough)

A dialogue system? I am pretty sure you will find many third party ones on the asset store, though most probably not for free. Might still give you an idea what can be achieved with Unity.

I don't think Unity has a stock one out-of-the-box, though it ain't that hard to make your own. In the end its just a textbox, with an image, waiting for user input, to load the next chunk of text from a database or file.

"modal dialog box",

Chained modal windows might do the trick, but they generally are centered and mask the rest of the action (semi alph, blocker, etc.)

Thing is, most dialogue systems are very custom in essence, so it might be hard to get one.

What are you using for UI? Unity native or an external lib/plugin?

What are you using for UI? Unity native or an external lib/plugin?

I'd like to get nice and cozy with all of Unity's features before I start thinking about external libraries, so that'd be Unity native.

I heard the new version has changed a lot for UI management. It used to be a problem with Unity, but it's much smoother now.

Have you had a look at all of unity's video tutorials, they are really great to get you up to speed!

It's pretty easy to code.

You use a panel with a text on top of it. Then you use an image for each character.

Then you make it dynamic with scripting. You say stuff like if player press whatever then text = this and image = that.

I don't know if it's the most cost effective method but it's easy.