Dialouge problems

[hearty condor]

whenever the DialougeRenderer module does it job, since it only does only validate TextSize, but never with TextScaled, it would be obvious on what would happen. It won't adapt to the scale of the current size of the textlabel / parent / dialougebox.

and im confused on how to fix this . the main issue is with the TextService

local function getCharBounds(char, textSize, font, frameSize)
    return TextService:GetTextSize(char, textSize, font, frameSize)
end

heres what i should look like normally

vs when the device is more tinier than PC screens.

[humble coral]

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[humble coral]

so in other words, you want this to work with TextScaled?

i dont think you can, you're going to have to write your own scaling

[hearty condor]

huh.. I guess what I can only do now is try to make a LocalScript/Module that changes a TextLabel's TextSize simutainously if the size of the Parent has changed? Or is there a better way to do so, since that's what i can only think of 💔

Since TextService is dependant on the TextSize in my case, that's the only solution that might work out for me but im not sure

[humble coral]

set textsize according to the size of the textbox

you could factor in text length too

[hearty condor]

Ill check it out, ill go play other games that has done the same dialouge things and find out if this isnt just a issue with me

Found out it's an issue everywhere thank god

[leaden gull]

indeed

[hearty condor]

Ill probably have to check out DevForums to find out on how to fix this

[humble coral]

i'd imagine autoscale lite having something for text scaling in it

[hearty condor]

yeah.. no i don't think the textscaling on autoscale works at all

does work when the screen size is small

[humble coral]

i didnt say to use it, i said it has something for text scaling in it. aka read the source code for it and take how they replace .TextScaled

[hearty condor]

oh

i see

alright

[humble coral]

i'm assuming it has something for it, it might be lazy tho

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/calculate-textscaled-size/378577/7

Doing this calculation yourself like that isn’t ideal because it means that every dialog will have a different font size, which results in poor UX. In addition, you’ll still have cases where if a dialog message is too long the resulting text will be unreadably small.

You should pick a font size you know will fit every message you’ll display - either a static size in pixels, or setting the font size based on the height of your dialog bubble using a script. In the future we might add more ways of setting the text size, but until then you have to use scripts to calculate it.
~ Roblox Staff

[hearty condor]

I found out in AutoScale Lite they used an UITextSizeConstraint

[humble coral]

they probably set the constraints in code

[hearty condor]

yeah, they do automatically set it, in Default it would be 100

[harsh spindle]

damn almost 400 lines for dialogue 💀

[hearty condor]

It's a dialouge with custom animations in it

it would be simple if it was just a type-writer effect

[harsh spindle]

are you using rich text

[hearty condor]

yes

i am

the issue isn't that

[harsh spindle]

hm damn, you must have a lot of effects then

[hearty condor]

its TextService from what i know so far

[humble coral]

thats nothing

only reason its not 1000 is probably coz it not finished and battle-tested yet

[hearty condor]

I wouldn't have any issues if it was just like InkGames where it can set the TextSize automatically (I asumme), but never change it once the screen resolution changes again untill the next line

But i don't know how they did that so that's what im just trying to figure out

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-stan-twitter-gif-9162209023452279713

[humble coral]

you mean how the entire text doesn't grow/shrink as it gets typed out?

[hearty condor]

Yeah, TextService only relies on the TextSize, but i cant set the TextSize without trying to figure out on how to set it before TextService grabs their sizes and it gets typed out

[humble coral]

invisible textbox

[hearty condor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1350615677404315659/1383143970129055754/GoHKP2KW8AENttD.gif

[harsh spindle]

yo what's that portal in the back

[hearty condor]

if ts fixes it im gonna jump

💔

[harsh spindle]

lowkey I don't even know what your problem is but good luck

[hearty condor]

look at the screenshots

and see how the text never scales

[harsh spindle]

oh you mean how it doesn't fit inside the textbox thingy

[hearty condor]

yeah

[harsh spindle]

you could like figure out how much one letter takes up then multiply by the number of letters but there's probably a smarter way to do it

[harsh spindle]

also are you using a textlabel or what is that

[hearty condor]

yeah its a text label

[harsh spindle]

can't you just say textlabel.TextScaled = true then?

[leaden gull]

hello there.

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[harsh spindle]

sup

[hearty condor]

hello realsword

[leaden gull]

he's using multiple textlabels I assume

especially for effects like shaking

[harsh spindle]

then why not do textscaled = true on all of them

[hearty condor]

That wont work if its a Spam of Textlabels

and not a type-writer effect

its a letter by letter textlabel calculated by TextService's GetTextSize which relies on TextSize (Will never change even with TextScaled on btw)

so im confused on how Ink Games did it

[harsh spindle]

oh textservice makes it so you can't change it?

[hearty condor]

TextService relies on TextSize

So even if you have TextScaled On

it will Get the TextSize instead

[harsh spindle]

@hearty condor I found a forum page that talks about your exact problem

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-use-textservicegettextsize-with-scaled-text/1115698

and this guy is changing the size based on the amount of letters like I suggested. so that's probably the idea here.

[hearty condor]

thats for scaling the UI,

My problem is Scaling the Text

[harsh spindle]

well I was gonna say make the UI fit the text but instead you want the text to match the UI

[hearty condor]

I see, Some people used Frames as a reference of how the Text should be

[hearty condor]

Heyo! i fixed it thanks to someone in #📜︱scripting

i just had to divide the absolutesize.Y of the label by 2 (or any that i want)

💔

and that fixed the issue

crazy right?