Hello everyone in the development community! This is my first post so far and this is a problem I’ve been having for a day and a half now. Sorry if I make any mistakes going over this…
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So, I want to fix an issue relating to an advanced dialogue module I’ve been creating that makes it easy to change and customize it to someone’s needs.
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The problem relates to fonts and most likely emphasizing since that’s a recent setting for dialogue I’ve been trying to add. Whenever I get to a certain point in a dialogue text module, it gives me an error saying
Unable to assign property Font. EnumItem, number, or string expected, got nil. -
I’ve tried debugging, looking online, and even got desperate enough to try and look into Assistant but none of that has worked.
Here is the main part that’s causing the error in the dialogue module. If you need other parts, I can send you those afterward since there are defined things here that are out of the code block.
local function BuildTheLine(ui,text_size,String,number,index,max_index,SettingsLetters,SettingsColors,SettingsEmphases,SettingsAnimations,Font)
local LineSize = ui.AbsoluteSize.Y/max_index
local CurrentLinePos = LineSize*index
local CenterPos = CurrentLinePos+CurrentLinePos
local Letters = {}
local LastPosition = UDim2.new(0,0,CenterPos/ui.AbsolutePosition.Y,0)
local LastSize = UDim2.new(0,0,0,0)
local SumSize = 0
for i=1,#String do
local TextLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel",ui)
TextLabel.Visible = false
TextLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
TextLabel.RichText = true
TextLabel.TextSize = text_size
TextLabel.Text = SettingsLetters[i+number]
local emphasis = SettingsEmphases[i+number]
if emphasis == "i" then
TextLabel.Text = "<i>"..TextLabel.Text.."</i>"
elseif emphasis == "b" and not boldFonts[TextLabel.Font] then
TextLabel.Text = "<b>"..TextLabel.Text.."</b>"
elseif emphasis == "u" then
TextLabel.Text = "<u>"..TextLabel.Text.."</u>"
elseif emphasis == "s" then
TextLabel.Text = "<s>"..TextLabel.Text.."</s>"
end
print("Emphasized")
TextLabel.Font = Font
TextLabel.TextColor3 = SettingsColors[i+number]
TextLabel.Name = TextLabel.Text
TextLabel.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5,0.5)
TextLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
TextLabel.TextStrokeColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(0, 0, 0)
TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(TextLabel.TextBounds.X/ui.AbsoluteSize.X,0,TextLabel.TextBounds.Y/ui.AbsoluteSize.Y,0)
SumSize = SumSize+TextLabel.TextBounds.X/ui.AbsoluteSize.X
local Offset = UDim2.new((TextLabel.TextBounds.X/ui.AbsoluteSize.X)/2,0,0,0)
TextLabel.Position = LastPosition+Offset+UDim2.new(LastSize.X.Scale/2,0,0,0)
table.insert(Letters,TextLabel)
LastPosition = UDim2.new(TextLabel.Position.X.Scale,0,CenterPos/ui.AbsolutePosition.Y,0)
LastSize = TextLabel.Size
TextLabel.Visible = false
end
local Offset = (1-SumSize)/2
for i,v in pairs(Letters) do
v.Position = v.Position+UDim2.new(Offset,0,0,0)
end
return Letters
end
Here’s the part where the function is being used: (Apart of another larger function)
local Text = ConvertToText(Answer.Text)
self.Gui.Main.Calculate.Text = Text
local TextSize = 25
LetterSize = TextService:GetTextSize(Letter,TextSize,self.Settings.Font,Vector2.new(10000,10000))
local FrameSize = TextService:GetTextSize(Text,TextSize,self.Settings.Font,Vector2.new(self.Gui.Main.MainBounds.AbsoluteSize.X,10000))
local words = gmatch(Text)
local SettingsLetters,SettingsColors,SettingsEmphases,SettingsAnimations = SplitToSettings(Answer)
local lines = math.floor(FrameSize.Y/LetterSize.Y)
local line = 1
local index = 0
local String = ""
local Letters = {}
for i,v in pairs(words) do
local save,save2 = String,index
String = String..v
local Size = TextService:GetTextSize(String,TextSize,self.Settings.Font,Vector2.new(10000,10000))
if Size.X > self.Gui.Main.MainBounds.AbsoluteSize.X then
local LettersLine = BuildTheLine(self.Gui.Main.MainBounds,TextSize,save,index,line,lines,SettingsLetters,SettingsColors,SettingsAnimations,self.Settings.Font)
for _,l in pairs(LettersLine) do
table.insert(Letters,l)
end
line = line+1
index = #save+index
String = v
end
end
local LettersLine = BuildTheLine(self.Gui.Main.MainBounds,TextSize,String,index,line,lines,SettingsLetters,SettingsColors,SettingsEmphases,SettingsAnimations,self.Settings.Font)
for _,l in pairs(LettersLine) do
table.insert(Letters,l)
end
And the dialogue text module: (Throws error at the seventh dialogue)
Settings = {
Font = Enum.Font.GothamBold; --- Font for ALL text in dialogue
PlayerColor = Color3.fromRGB(0,0,255); --- Player's text color
[1] = {
Text = {"Haaahhh...haaahhh..."}; --- Splitted text, that needs to add animations and colors to text
--- How does it work:
--- "Text"
--- Color
--- Emphasise names ("Normal", "i", "b", "s", "u")
--- Animation name ("Normal","Waves","Shakes")
Colors = {Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)}; --- Splitted colors, that aligns to splitted text
Animations = {"Normal"}; --- Splitted animation names, that aligns to splitted text
Emphases = {"Normal"}; --- Splitted emphasis names, that aligns to splitted text
Character_Icon = "rbxassetid://5482508099"; -- Character's face during this dialogue, set to "Player" if you want player's Icon
Character_Name = "someone"; -- If you have multiple characters chatting during dialogue, you can set name here. For player name set value to "Player"
Function = function() -- If you want to do something when choose this happens
end;
};
[2] = {
Text = {"I overslept again!"};
Colors = {Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)};
Animations = {"Normal"};
Emphases = {"Normal"};
Character_Icon = "rbxassetid://5482508099";
Character_Name = "someone";
Function = function()
end;
};
[3] = {
Text = {"But I caught you this time!"};
Colors = {Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)};
Animations = {"Normal"};
Emphases = {"i"};
Character_Icon = "rbxassetid://5482508099";
Character_Name = "someone";
Function = function()
end;
};
[4] = {
Text = {"Maybe, but only because I decided to stop and wait for you."};
Colors = {Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)};
Animations = {"Normal"};
Emphases = {"Normal"};
Character_Icon = "rbxassetid://5482508099";
Character_Name = "Nerd";
Function = function()
end;
};
[5] = {
Text = {"Eeehhhhh, you say that like you were thinking about ignoring me!"};
Colors = {Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)};
Animations = {"Normal"};
Emphases = {"i"};
Character_Icon = "rbxassetid://5482508099";
Character_Name = "someone";
Function = function()
end;
};
[6] = {
Text = {"That's mean, you nerd!"};
Colors = {Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)};
Animations = {"Normal"};
Emphases = {"Normal"};
Character_Icon = "rbxassetid://5482508099";
Character_Name = "someone";
Function = function()
end;
};
[7] = {
Text = {"Well, if people stare at you for acting weird I don't want them to think we're actually close or anything."};
Colors = {Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)};
Animations = {"Normal"};
Emphases = {"Normal"};
Character_Icon = "rbxassetid://5482508099";
Character_Name = "nerd";
Function = function()
end;
};
Hope you guys can help me with this one! 
Well, now I feel like a complete idiot. I’m surprised that such a problem had such a simple fix. I was stuck on it for a day and a half and it was all because of a simple mistake of leaving out the setting.