How do I change which camera is active based on text dialogue?

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Hello,

I haven’t found anything similar to this on the forum, so I apologize if I am re-posting an already solved issue.

Basically what I am trying to do is create a mini cut-scene. What I want to happen is to activate different cameras depending which character is currently “talking.” I have my text currently going into an array, split based on the ’
’ parameter in my Notepad file, and I can scroll through the text by pressing “Enter.” What I’m wondering is if I can somehow use this array to solve the problem. Can I somehow add a marker to the text that will allow Unity to recognize that, for example, “if there is an # next to the line, it’s speaker 1, and a is speaker 2." Then I could use those 2 "tags" of sorts to say "if text is of # group, activate camera 1" "if text is of group, activate camera 2.” I hope that I’m explaining myself correctly…

Thanks,
Drew

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Well, if theres only 2 camera,you can just add a special character at the end of the string, and if the string ends with that char,then you switch camera.

If theres more camera,you can split your string into 2 part with like a splitter.

For example
Hello stranger|1

Then when you read the line, you split it, and the first part is your text, the second is the id of the camera,you want to set active.

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This is exactly what I need! However, I’m not entirely sure how I would do this in the scripts/text itself. Could you give me an example code/text for say, the following text:

Person 1: Hey how are you?
Person 2: Good, you?
Person 1: Fine thank you.

What/where would I put these markers, and how do I then access them in the script?

Thanks for the quick reply!!!