Creating an NPC welcome box

Now that we have a template for our dialog boxes, let's use them by creating custom dialog boxes for our NPC that are based on what we just created. To stay organized, we should make a separate folder for NPCs since we will most likely have a lot more UMG and opportunities to use our dialog box outside of the NPC creation. So within Content Browser, navigate to Content | Blueprints | UI and create a new folder under Add New. Name this folder NPC and then navigate into the folder. Create a duplicate of the DialogBox Widget Blueprint that you made in the previous section and move it into the NPC folder. Name the duplicated widget Shop_Welcome:

Open the Shop_Welcome widget and select the TextBlock_Dialog Text Block. In ...

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