Feature Tour

Learn about the Feature Tour Sample, which shows off many of the different capabilities of Yarn Spinner.

The Feature Tour Sample.

The Feature Tour Sample is an ideal starting point for newcomers to Yarn Spinner. It presents a series of conversations along a corridor, each demonstrating a different capability of Yarn Spinner.

Are you ready to navigate this narrative gauntlet?

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Features Covered

• Nodes, Lines and Options

• Jumps and Detours

• Variables and Interpolation

• Flow Control and Branching

• Commands and Functions

• Storylets

• A Dialogue Interactible component and node-character associations

Tour Structure

The feature tour consists of a long corridor with multiple rooms. Each room contains one or more interactive characters, with each character showcasing a specific Yarn Spinner feature. While this sample doesn't demonstrate every Yarn Spinner capability, it covers the most commonly used ones.

Dialogue Interactible Component

At the heart of this feature tour is a class, Dialogue Interactible. This component is attached to each interactive character and associates a specific dialogue node with that character. If you're curious about how a particular feature works, you can identify which node contains that feature through this component.

Sally talking about variables

For example, if you want to see which node provides dialogue for a specific character, select that character in the scene and examine the Dialogue Interactible component.

Sally's dialogue interactible component

In this example, we can see the node is Room4_Variables_2. Since all dialogue in this sample is contained in a single file (Tour.yarn), you simply need to open that file and locate the node to understand its implementation.