Using 2d tool kit to build a speechbubble...

[unikronsoftware]

It looks like your sprite isn't the same size as the text meshes - If you create the sprite of that bubble it needs to be the correct size, looks like it might be from a different collection / have different pixels per meter settings etc. You need to get the correct effect in the viewport first before your code will work.

[codejoy]

ahhhh okay.  I did some tweaking turns out I double checked my font AND the sprite collection SETTINGS (I didn't realize I could set filter there too).  So it is crisper but still encompassing the text it grows on the borders.  I have a posted here a image with on top what its doing (with point filtering!) and on bottom something I did in gimp for what I am aiming for.

[unikronsoftware]

Its the settings on the sliced sprite you need to modify. I think the borders are too small - you're scaling the borders rather than leaving them unscaled.

[codejoy]

This seemed to work put the borders at 10.  Center middle anchored everything and wham takes any size text and grows around it and dose it well.

I attach the sliced sprite speech bubble as a child of my main player and it all works great, except when i walk the opposite direction.  To get the player sprite to face the other way i set his scale to -1 on the x. and it works, but the sliced sprite speech bubble now turns too and looks like text was in a mirror   not sure a way around this.

[unikronsoftware]

Solution is not to attach the speech bubble, but in a script position it relative to the player.

[codejoy]

yep! thanks for all your help.  Going to have a script that tracks player just like the camera basically.

[codejoy]

I had one more question as I used this more.  The bounds keeps resizing my sliced sprite larger and larger.  Here is my use case:

I have different lines of text goto the speech bubble.  It displays the line of text, then the next is sent to the speech bubble.  I *WAS* in the Start method sizing the bubble, but since its now part of my speaking code, it sizes itself when a new line of text comes in so I have  a function called SizeBubble on the sliced sprite:

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public void SizeBubble()
{

if(!msh)
msh = transform.Find ("TextMesh").GetComponent<tk2dTextMesh>();

Debug.Log ("Mesh: "+ msh.text + " ****" );
Bounds b = msh.GetEstimatedMeshBoundsForString(msh.text);
spr=  GetComponent<tk2dSlicedSprite>();

spr.ReshapeBounds(b.min, b.max);
}
The start code looks like this:

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void Start () {

msh = transform.Find ("TextMesh").GetComponent<tk2dTextMesh>();
if(!msh)
Debug.LogError ("Coulnd't get it!");

spr=  GetComponent<tk2dSlicedSprite>();
Bounds old = spr.GetBounds();

t=target.transform;

}
The thing I am seeing is that everytime i throw a new line of text at the bubble, even if the line is shorter than the last the sliced sprite grows and never shrinks.  Above you notice I try to save the bounds in a variable called old  which i called reshapbounds on in the SizeBubble on top (took it out as it did nothing) but I think I am not understanding how ReshapeBounds works as to why my sliced sprite keeps growing and never shrinks again to match a new line of text once my talky system sends it to the speechbubble.

So any pointers as to why the sliced sprite grows and never shrinks?

[unikronsoftware]

I don't get it either. It should work. If you can't get it to work post a simple repro in private support and I'll take a look at it.