Dialogue System Trigger won't fire again after the first time.

[kalibyr]

Hi Tony!

I've been using Dialogue System for a couple of months on and off, and it's been great! It's truly a great asset, huge timesaver.

I'm running into an issue that I never encountered before. Before when I used the Selector and Usable / Dialogue Actor / Dialogue System Trigger component, it worked fine, and I would be able to activate the each trigger as many times as I wanted.

I made some changes since then and now when I start a conversation using the DS Triggers, it only runs once and then never fires again. I've tried messing with the Triggers, the Actor/Conversant, Selector and Usable, added triggers to different game objects. If I run the the dialogue once, the triggers on every other gameobject do not work.

Current Setup:

• Player gameobject has the Selector / Dialogue Actor / Dialogue System Events components assigned.

• NPC gameobject has Usable / Dialogue System Trigger components assigned.

• Mouse0 is the interact button. DS Triggers are assigned to separate conversations.

• On the first click, doesn't matter which NPC I choose, it fires correctly and the conversation assigned to the DS Trigger on the specific NPC is activated.

• Afterwards, I go through the prompt and then the conversation ends correctly.

• The same NPC DS Trigger does not fire again, nor does the other NPC. This is vice versa if I start with the second NPC. That one works and then none of the other triggers work again.

Please help!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

If you can select the NPC again and it shows the selector UI, then temporarily set the Dialogue Manager's Other Settings > Debug Level to Info. When you try to interact with the NPC again, examine the Console log. It may show a message like:

Dialogue System: Starting conversation 'title' with actor=XXX and conversant=YYY

If it doesn't, it might show some other message to indicate the issue.

You can also check the Console the first time you interact with the NPC. Make sure the correct GameObjects are being used for the player and NPC -- in particular the player, since you want it to receive Dialogue System Events messages.

If you can't select the NPC again to see the selector UI, check if the NPC's Usable component and collider are still enabled, and that the player's Selector is enabled. It sounds like the player's Selector may be the issue.

[kalibyr]

Thanks for your reply.

The Selector and the Selector UI still work after the first trigger. The Dialogue System is firing the OnUse correctly and the conversation seems to be working fine, but only for the first time.

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After the initial conversation is finished, the Selector UI / Selector is stilled enabled, and I can see that the interact message works correctly. However, when using the Mouse0 to interact, I do not receive more Debug logs at all. Nothing after the "ending Conversation" log.

I did catch the conversation running again with the Player actor after the initial conversation was activated, not sure what's going on there, but I'll include it below.

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4 hours into the debugging and I'm still at a lost. Any suggestions would be helpful.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

At any time, please feel free to email a reproduction project to tony (at) pixelcrushers.com. I'll be happy to take a direct look. It's probably the fastest way to resolve the issue.

Otherwise, how is your Dialogue System Events components configured? I assume it's on the player and is configured to disable and re-enable the Selector component.

[kalibyr]

Awesome, I'll send the project along. Might take a day to do so.

In the meantime, yes you're correct about the DS Events component being on the player and used to disable and re-enable the selector.