Is there a way I can make a dialogue box appear on top of a game object in a 3D game. I have tried using the canvas but that doesn’t seem to work. I want it to appear as if it is floating over the game object.
Hello,
there are several approaches. You can use standard GameObjects, but managing the text would be a tad trickier.
You can do it with canvas, by setting its Render Mode to World Space. You’d have to make sure it keeps facing the player.
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This is the key, and this also usually this makes the box MASSIVE, like hundreds of units across, so I tend to make my WorldSpace canvases scaled down to 0.01 in all axes (X,Y,Z).
Then as diXime pointed out, use a billboarding script to point it at the player, and parent it to the unit to keep it together.
Attached is a handy start to making a dynamic UI that flows around arbitrary-sized text.
To see it in world space, do these steps:
- press PLAY
- select the canvas
- change it to World Space
- change its scale to (0.01, 0.01, 0.01)
- move its position to (0,0,0)
It should be visible right there in your 3D world and you can pause and look around.
7204534–865297–ExpandingCartoonBubble.unitypackage (21.3 KB)
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Thank you so much for the reply this works perfectly.
Thank you. I implemented it and it works as intended.
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