Can't get SMS dialogue to display for NPC

[xyztankman]

Hey,

I've been having trouble setting up a secondary dialogue UI for SMS. I have the primary as regular conversations and that already works really well.

When I attempt to override the UI, the UI appears but only the PC dialogue appears and the lines from the NPC are not displayed. It is still registering them though as it has the Delay({{end}}); sequence for all nodes and it waits the time limit.

I also tried the override display settings as well with no luck.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

If you inspect the Test1 and Test2 actors in the Dialogue Editor window's Actors section, what are their Is Player values?

[xyztankman]

Hi,

If you inspect the Test1 and Test2 actors in the Dialogue Editor window's Actors section, what are their Is Player values?

Sorry, didn't get any email or notification on the post, neither was set to Is Player. I just tried setting Test1 to Is Player but still no change. Also forgot to show a picture of what it looks like.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

What actors are assigned to the conversation's properties? Open the conversation in the Dialogue Editor window, and select Menu > Conversation Properties to see the conversation's properties.

Let's run a few tests:

1. Remove the Override Dialogue UI component from Test1. This can conflict with the Override Display Settings. Then test the conversation.

2. If that doesn't fix it, please try ticking the Dialogue Manager GameObject's Subtitle Settings > Show NPC Subtitles During Line, and Show PC Subtitles During Line, and untick Skip PC Subtitle After Response Menu. This will test if maybe Test1's Override Display Settings aren't being fully observed.

3. If you don't see any errors or warnings in the Console window, set the Dialogue Manager's Other Settings > Debug Level to Info. Then play the scene again. Examine the Console window for anything that looks unexpected.

Also feel free at any point to send a reproduction project to tony (at) pixelcrushers.com. I'll be happy to take a direct look.

[xyztankman]

Weird, I can get the player dialogue to appear without issue but the conversant doesn't appear still.

Since my main dialogue works, would it be possible to just combine the two dialogues into one and disable panels within each conversation as needed? I think that would maybe be better than having it override in the first place since the SMS won't be used very often.

[Tony Li]

Weird, I can get the player dialogue to appear without issue but the conversant doesn't appear still.

Strange. It's more commonly the other way around, when Dialogue Manager's Subtitle Settings > Show PC Subtitles During Line isn't ticked. When happens if you assign an unmodified version of the SMS Dialogue UI to the Override Display Settings component? (And remove Override Dialogue UI.)

To confirm: No errors or warnings in the Console window?

Since my main dialogue works, would it be possible to just combine the two dialogues into one and disable panels within each conversation as needed? I think that would maybe be better than having it override in the first place since the SMS won't be used very often.

Yes, you could do that, if it would give you the UI results you're after.

[xyztankman]

Weird, I can get the player dialogue to appear without issue but the conversant doesn't appear still.

Strange. It's more commonly the other way around, when Dialogue Manager's Subtitle Settings > Show PC Subtitles During Line isn't ticked. When happens if you assign an unmodified version of the SMS Dialogue UI to the Override Display Settings component? (And remove Override Dialogue UI.)

To confirm: No errors or warnings in the Console window?

Since my main dialogue works, would it be possible to just combine the two dialogues into one and disable panels within each conversation as needed? I think that would maybe be better than having it override in the first place since the SMS won't be used very often.

Yes, you could do that, if it would give you the UI results you're after.

No errors or warnings on the console, everything looked like it was processing it correctly.

I think I'm having better progress with this method, it's now displaying the text for both characters. The only thing is that it isn't scrolling down like in a messaging system, they are replacing the previous text message.

[Tony Li]

Please remind me -- are you using the SMSDialogueUI script? That's what takes care of appending new messages (instead of replacing) and scrolling down.

[xyztankman]

I guess the better question is there a way to switch to this dialogue system with a button press or by a sequence tag. I previously had the 4 subtitle panels listed in the combined dialogue UI and was switching to them with the setpanel sequence. I had both standard and sms dialogue UI scripts attached but it wasn't working when I enabled and disabled the scripts via a button press.

So this is the current setup I have, with the combined dialogue having both dialogue UIs as children. Should the scripts be on the combined dialogue? I also was going to only have one alert system, so I was probably going to put that directly under combined dialogue instead of individually under the UIs

[xyztankman]

Please remind me -- are you using the SMSDialogueUI script? That's what takes care of appending new messages (instead of replacing) and scrolling down.

Yes, I did try to have it switch to that script with a button press, enabling the script and disabling StandardDialogueUI. When I set the SMS prefab directly in the dialogue manager it does work correctly, showing both the PC and NPC dialogue. When I attempted to override the UI with the same SMS dialogue prefab, it only showed the PC text.