Has anyone figured out a simple way to keep previous dialogue lines a la Disco Elysium?

[dannyparisi]

I've been beating my head against this for a while. I have my balloon customized and I think I understand most of the code, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to have the dialogue appear in a scrolling DialogueLabel that appends the new line without clearing the previous text. Anyone have any ideas of how to do this?

[T13Lightning]

How about hiding the main DialogueLabel that the label uses, and copying the dialogue text into a new RichTextLabel that you're featuring?

That way you'd be able to append text to the new RichTextLabelwithout worrying about it getting overwritten.

I'm still in the process of working in a visual novel (my first game ever) and I'm trying something like this for a LogSystem.
In my system the Logs are similar to RPGs like "Atelier Sophie 2", but you can use a similar method for yours.

(rough implementation so far)

extends BaseGameDialogueBalloon

func apply_dialogue_line(next_dialogue_line: DialogueLine) -> void:
	super.apply_dialogue_line(next_dialogue_line)
	LogSystem.update_logs(character_label.text, dialogue_line.text)

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func update_logs(speaker: String, dialogue:String):
	var log_box = log_container.instantiate()
	%LogContainer.add_child(log_box)
	log_box.speaker = speaker
	log_box.dialogue = dialogue
	log_box.portrait = "res://images/bee.png"

[dannyparisi]

I ended up doing something very similar. I created a new RichTextLabel that lives above the DialogueLabel and within the next() function in the balloon script, I add the current text on a new line to the label before updating the current line. Works pretty good for me.

[nathanhoad]

I've made an example project that does something similar: https://nathanhoad.itch.io/endless-scroll-text-input-godot-dialogue-example-project