How to display actor name in conversation.

[diccon]

I want to refer to the name of an actor who is not the actor or conversant in a conversation and I can't get it to show up.

I am using this in the Dialogue Text field:

Let us go visit [lua(Actor["OtherNPC"].DisplayName)].

There is no syntax error but an empty string is returned, even though the actor definitely exists. Am I doing this wrong?

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

The "Display Name" field has a space in it, and spaces are handled as underscores in Lua tables (more info), so try:

Let us go visit [lua(Actor["OtherNPC"].Display_Name)].


Note: If you're localizing display names to different languages, you can write a C# method that returns the localized version of an actor's display name, such as:

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public string GetDisplayName(string actorName)
{
    return DialogueLua.GetLocalizedActorField(actorName, "Display Name);
}

Then register it with Lua so you can use it like:

Let us go visit [lua(GetDisplayName("OtherNPC"))].

[diccon]

Awesome, thanks for your quick reply as always!

[Tony Li]

Glad to help!