Best way to trigger a line of dialogue through code?

[hannah]

So here's the scenario. The player comes to a point in the conversation where they're asked if they know how to play poker. There's a face down card and if the player clicks on it I'd like that to count as a response and trigger a dialogue tree inside the current conversation.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Here are two options:

1. Set up your card to call the dialogue UI's "OnClick" method. You'll need to pass a Response object. For example:

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void OnMouseDown() {
    var formattedText = FormattedText.Parse("This is the response text.", DialogueManager.MasterDatabase.emphasisSettings);
    var dialogueEntry = DialogueManager.MasterDatabase.GetDialogueEntry(conversationID, dialogueEntryID);
    var response = new Response(formattedText, dialogueEntry);
    var dialogueUI = FindObjectOfType<UnityUIDialogueUI>();
    dialogueUI.OnClick(response);
}

2. Or set up your card to cancel the current conversation (DialogueManager.StopConversation) and then either restart it at a specific dialogue entry (DialogueManager.StartConversation) or set a Lua variable and restart it from the beginning and branch differently based on that Lua variable. For example:

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void OnMouseDown() {
    DialogueManager.StopConversation();
    DialogueLua.SetVariable("clickedCard", true);
    DialogueManager.StartConversation("My Conversation", actor, conversant);
}

[hannah]

Awesome! That worked great!

[Tony Li]

Great! Glad I could help.