Yarn Editor and Yarn Spinner is a framework for creating conversations easily, created by the authors of Night In The Woods. You create them as a tree of nodes, save it as json and the framework takes care of the rest.
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Install the Yarn Editor tool. It will enable you to write conversations for your game easily. Like this:
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Since v1.0 Yarn Spinner has a prefab, that sets up all the things you would have to normally set up yourself. So, just drag it in.
It provides the canvas and dialogue runner, ui and the event system.
Now just assign your custom yarn conversation file, or just use their example files — Sally or Ship.
I created a basic conversation in Yarn Editor, saved it as yarn and imported it into Unity.
Then hooked it up to Dialogue Runner, set the Start Node to Start and check Start Automatically, as I don’t have any NPCs yet to interact with.
Press Play and the conversation starts!
Another step would be to add the Dialogue Runner to an NPC.
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