Speech coding can be used to display player names, the values of variables and to create buttons, activate signals, and more![]
Special Substitutions[]
To display a player's user name in a speech bubble or other UI text, put the following in your text:
/name/
To display the value of a variable, put this in your text:
<variable>
For example, if the following text is in the world:
Hello /name/, you now have <count> apples.
And Inkplane is playing your world and the variable called "count" now has a value of "5", the text in game would read:
Hello Inkplane, you now have 5 apples.
Buttons[]
To make speech have buttons put brackets at the end of your text.
Hello!
[]
And presto you have made a blank (and functionless) button!
To add text to a button simply put text inside of the brackets.
Hello!
[Red]
And now your button will be labelled with the text 'Red'!
Buttons With Signals[]
To make a button activate a signal put the name of the signal after a vertical bar. The Signal reference must be capitalized.
Hello!
[Red|A]
This will activate Signal A when the button labelled "Red" is pressed.
Similarly, to add a second button add a second set of brackets and follow the same rules as above.
Hello!
[Red|A][Blue|B]
This could be used to change the color of a block with a dialog prompt.
Bold and Italic Text[]
Text in Blocksworld uses Unity's built-in text formatting. This allows you to do bold and italic text, and even colors.
For bold and italic text, use tags inspired by HTML:
This is <b>bold</b> and this is <i>italic</i>.
Will show up as
This is bold and this is italic.
For a complete reference of the supported tags, check Unity's documentation here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StyledText.html