How to make RPG-style text boxes?

[ghost]

I'm trying to make a text box like this (from OneShot, play it, very good game!):

And this is what I have so far:

I did this by making a very high offset for the portrait and making portraits appear infront of the textbox.

Is there any better way to do this? (with text wrap)

I did see this PR: https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic/pull/690
But it got closed with only "new features now allow you to do this style of portraits, so I'm closing this pr", not specifying which features.

[Yotopihi-Dev]

try changing the Z index of the portrait

[Yotopihi-Dev]

There's a node in dialogic called the "dialognode" You can change how far the label goes

[Yotopihi-Dev]

Nevermind, setting the margin does not do anything.

ah sorry, I thought it'd help

[ghost]

It seems like an option to set the text margin (not textbox) exists in the code but is nowhere in the UI...
Nevermind, it exists in the UI as Box padding????? How does that have anything to do with text margin?
Except this has nothing to do with text wrap...

[zaknafean]

Are you using the current main branch of Dialogic? A recent patch in our 1.4.2 beta has smoothed over the UI/UX of margins that should help.

This along with 'Single Portrait' mode

Should get the behavior you're looking for.

[ghost]

Thank you, that works! Could you turn your comment into an answer so I can accept it?

[zaknafean]

Are you using the current main branch of Dialogic? A recent patch in our 1.4.2 beta has smoothed over the UI/UX of margins that should help.

This along with 'Single Portrait' mode

Should get the behavior you're looking for.

[ghost]

Actually, this still has a problem where if the dialog is hidden, the portrait isn't. You can fix this by making the character leave and join when its hidden. This does break name labels though. Different issue.

[zaknafean]

I'm actually confused by this. How are you hiding the dialog but not the portrait? What's the use case you're doing.

[ghost]

I'm using the Wait event with Hide DialogBox.

[zaknafean]

Oh OK that makes sense.