#Organization Regarding Chatterbox

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thorn falcon
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  1. For one given project, is there any NEED for any more than ONE .yarn file or is it just organizational personal preference?

  2. Relatedly, what's the most common value in creating more than one chatter_box (with ChatterboxCreate)? For creating text in different contexts (i.e., 1 chatter_box for all dialogue in a textbox at the bottom of the screen, 1 chatter_box for brief overhead dialogue events)?

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thorn falcon
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(Didn't ask in Juju Adam's Discord cuz there's high message traffic there and this is sort of nontechnical so I wanted to spare his eyes the text)

lost garden
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Honestly fine to ask here for that

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If it were directly involving chatterbox functionality and such, then that’d be different

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But we can easily view this question as a matter of dialogue organisation, so the advice can go for more than chatterbox

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(At least for 1. For 2 I’d prefer the juju verse to handle that)

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  1. Honestly, can be a matter of preference. It can also be a matter of loading in entries that are absolutely necessary. But generally it comes down to preference. Makes it fairly easier to sort out text when it’s separated into different sections of the game.
thorn falcon
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Ah. In that a yarn file can be compared to a json file, or something like that?

lost garden
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Yarn, csv, json

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There’s also the code side of things too. Array full of strings in GML, array full of structs that hold onto strings in GML, etc.

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People have different approaches to how they do their dialogues

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And for different valid reasons

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But it genuinely is a preference matter

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Most of the time anyway.

thorn falcon
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Gotcha gotcha! :3

lost garden
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But the main thing is, some people choose to separate their dialogue into different files (or dialogue scripts), just because it gives them more to focus on for what they’re working on

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Might do that if you’re working on a VN or an RPG that is heavy dialogue focused

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And even then, you may want to do that in order to separate that into different sections of the game

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Like for an RPG, different regions of the game. For a VN, possibly chapters

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I say that’s when separation is best

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But you don’t need to do that if you don’t want to

thorn falcon
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Thank you for the help! I'll simplify and ask my Question 2 in the relevant space when it feels right~

Maybe I'll figure it out as I keep playing with Chatterbox more.....