Setting actors display name to a variable.

[Murble]

I want to change an actors display name after he writes it in a text field.
I know how to set a variable with a text field by entering in the dialogue text:

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[var=?playerName]

And I saw on an old post that you can change the display name in the Script with:

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Actor["Player"].Display_Name = "Alex"

However, I ran into two problems. First being that Actor["Player"].Display_Name = "Alex" doesn't seem to work. And the second being, if it did work, how do I make it take in the variable playerName instead.

I tried:

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Actor["Player"].Display_Name = Variable["playerName"]

But, that didn't work.

To put it into a simpler perspective, I simply want the dialogue to ask, "what is your name" and then have the player type a response. Then for the player to have that response set to his display name.

What I have now is one node having in the dialogue text:

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What is your name?[var=?playerName]

Then another node with this written in the Script section:

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Actor["Player"].Display_Name = Variable["playerName"]

[Tony Li]

Hi,

For efficiency, actors' Display Names are cached at the beginning of the conversation. To change an actor's Display Name in the middle of a conversation and have the change appear immediately, use the Lua function included in the "Discover Name Example" available on the Dialogue System Extras page.

[Murble]

Alright, I got that working.
But, in the dialogue text if I try using [var=Actor] it uses the old display name. I assume that it is just pulling that out of the cached data.
I can do

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[lua( Actor["Player"].Display_Name )]

to make it display the new updated name, but that is kind of annoying.
Is there a way to update the cache during runtime?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

In the same Script field where you call the Lua function to change the Display Name, you can also set Variable["Actor"] to the same value.