Unity2D Dialogue System - Names, Portraits, and Layouts using Ink Tags | Unity + Ink tutorial

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In this video, I show how to manage NPC Names, Portraits, and Layouts using Ink Tags for a Dialogue System built in Unity.

This tutorial uses a Dialogue System built in a previous tutorial. If you're just starting out with building a dialogue system for your game, I recommend watching the other video first (see below links) and then coming back to this one afterwards.

This tutorial also uses Ink, which is an open source narrative scripting language for creating video game dialogue that integrates nicely with Unity.

Thank you for watching and I hope the video was helpful! ?

► INK + UNITY TUTORIAL PLAYLIST
The full Ink + Unity tutorial playlist that this video is part of can be found here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRpcftVyKg&list=PL3viUl9h9k78KsDxXoAzgQ1yRjhm7p8kl

► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:25 How it's going to work
2:53 Project Overview
3:51 Adding to the UI
6:19 Creating an Ink file with Tags
8:37 Parsing the Tags
10:50 Setting the Speakers Name
11:26 Setting the Portrait
14:00 Setting the Layout
16:43 Resetting to Defaults
17:28 Outro

► DIALOGUE SYSTEM WITH CHOICES TUTORIAL VIDEO
Here's the tutorial where we built the Dialogue System being used for this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0Sk93YUhA&t=755s

► INK TUTORIAL VIDEO
Here's a tutorial for if you're interested in learning more about writing Ink files.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRpcftVyKg&t=29s

► GITHUB PROJECT
The '2-choices-implemented' branch is what we started with at the beginning of this video, and the '3-portraits-implemented' branch is the final result by the end of this video.
https://github.com/trevermock/ink-dialogue-system

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