How can I create an NPC Dialogue with UI Text?

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1

HI, I already looked around for my problem but didn’t find a solution.

Here’s what I would like to do.
While my character is running in my endless side-scroller game, I would like to tell the player a little story. To do this, I want to use UI Text elements which have animations on them to fade in and out. So on the screen appears a text, e.g., “Hello you.” fades out again and then e.g. “Where are you going?” fade out again., and so on, and so on.

Here’s my problem now
I don’t know what would be the right approach to have the sentence fly in on after another.
So I tried trigger them with if statements (if (time == 5) say something, if (time == 8) says something else.) But this doesn’t seem efficient. Then I tried to do it with an animator and stateMachineBehaviour. That worked a little.
Maybe somebody could point me in the right direction?

2

use animations to control the fade in and fade out and create a library of text with an array that gets called every so often.

 public string[] Story;
 int i = 0;
 public Animator anim;
 public float readingTime = 5f;
 public float storyInterval = 10f;

  void Start()
 {
  StartCoroutine(CallText())
 }

  IENumerator CallText()
        {
         anim.setTrigger("ShowTextBox")
         textBox.text = string*;*

i++;
yield return new WaitForSeconds(readingTime);
anim.setTrigger(“CloseTextBox”)
yield return new WaitForSeconds(storyInterval)
StartCoroutine(CallText())
}