Actor with no portrait

[hipsterdufus]

Hi, I've been having on and off issues with my no portrait dialogues maybe you can help me figure out if I'm doing things correctly. Basically I have 2 subtitle panels, one is for characters with portraits and the other is with the portrait panel disabled. I created NPC actors with portraits and an actor named no_portrait that is obviously meant to have the portrait panel disabled. I start a conversation using DialogueManager.StartConversation("conversation_name"). In the conversation the actor conversant is 'no_portrait', however sometimes it seems to use the regular subtitle with portrait. I guess this makes sense because there's no way for me to tell it that the no_portrait actor should use the no portrait subtitle without the portrait frame. Is there a nice way to do this? I do not want to use the Dialogue Actor component and a transform in the game to start conversations. I just need to trigger conversations in code.

Thank you for any help.

[Tony Li]

The standard way is to use that Dialogue Actor component -- but since you don't want to do that, you can do it in code. Add a script with an OnConversationStart(Transform) method to the Dialogue Manager. Use the StandardDialogueUI.OverrideActorPanel() method to set the no_portrait actor's panel number. Example:

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void OnConversationStart(Transform actor)
{
    var no_portrait_Actor = DialogueManager.masterDatabase.GetActor("no_portrait");
    DialogueManager.standardDialogueUI.OverrideActorPanel(no_portrait_Actor, SubtitlePanelNumber.Panel2);
}

[hipsterdufus]

Thanks I was able to get that part of it working using those event hooks however I have a new issue that's probably related to the fix. Now I'm noticing some strange behavior when I have an NPC conversation node followed by a No Portrait node - the NPC subtitle stays enabled behind the No Portrait subtitle and both remain open when I go back to an NPC node. Do I need to do something similar and tie into a conversation event to close out the subtitle? Any ideas as far as what to look for to debug this? Thank you.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Do you want one subtitle panel to close when the other subtitle panel opens? If so, inspect their Standard UI Subtitle Panel components and set the Visibility dropdown to Until Superceded.

[hipsterdufus]

Yes that works perfectly, thank you!

[Tony Li]

Glad to help!