2.1.3.1 Node: Message

Message Node

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	The primary node for displaying dialogue text, speaker info, and playing audio.
Description
The Message Node is the core component of a dialog tree. It holds the actual text to be displayed to the player, along with the speaker's name, avatar, and associated audio. It supports Rich Text decorations for advanced text formatting and variable injection. This node can transition linearly to another node via the 'Out' pin or present multiple choices to the player by connecting Option Nodes to the 'Opt' pin.
Shortcut
	Hold M + Left Mouse Button

In- and Outputs

Name	Pin	Description
In		Input execution pin. Connect previous nodes here to trigger this message.
Out		Output execution pin. Triggered when the message is finished (or skipped). Used for linear flow.
Opt		Option Output. Only accepts connections to Option Nodes to present choices to the player.

Details

Name	Type	Value	Default	Info
Speaker Name		-	Empty	The name of the character speaking this message.
Message		-	Empty	The dialogue text content. Supports rich text tags.
Speaking Participant		-	None	The gameplay tag identifying the actor speaking (used for bubbles).
Avatar Image		-	None	Soft reference to a Texture2D used as the speaker's avatar.
Message Sound		-	None	Sound that can manually be played.
Play Sound As		One time on Start Each Character Each Word	One time on Start	Determines if the sound plays once, per character, or per word.
Auto Forward Next After		-1.0 - Max	-1.0	Time in seconds to automatically advance. -1 disables auto-forward.
Allow Skip Auto Continue		True - False	False	If true, players can manually skip the auto-forward timer.
Options		-	Empty	Generic string field for custom additional data or parsing.
Dev Comment		-	Empty	Developer comment for internal documentation.
Additional Tags		-	Empty	Extra metadata tags to pass to the UI or game logic.
Additional Objects		-	Empty	Map of FName to Object References for additional data.
Additional Classes		-	Empty	Map of FName to Class References for additional data.

Notes

- The Opt pin is a multi-connection pin. You can drag multiple wires from it to different Option Nodes to create dialogue choices.