How to use the Interacting Entity as the Quest Giver?

[SysOp]

Hello!

Let's say I am trying to have multiple shopkeepers. Dialogue System has a way to find the current entity by using

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[var=Conversant]

if not mistaken.

So I want them to give all shopkeepers the same quests, after some conversation is finished. The problem is that Dialogue System uses

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GiveQuest("Shopkeeper", "harvestCarrots")

, and actually needs an actor Shopkeeper as a param ?

Is there a method to do something like

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GiveQuest(var=Conversant, "harvestCarrots")

so I can reuse the quests and dialogs? Thank you!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Try:

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GiveQuest(Variable["Conversant"], "harvestCarrots")

This will find the Quest Giver whose ID matches the conversant's Display Name (or Name if no Display Name) and give that Quest Giver's harvestCarrots quest to the player.

[SysOp]

I had to remove all references of the actor, in order to work, but the end result is as expected, thank you!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

I'm not sure why you had to remove actor references (see the Logging & Debugging Tips video to check which GameObjects are being used as actor & conversant), but anyway I'm glad you got it working the way you want!

[SysOp]

Ah, I just simply had to remove any references to 'Villager' (it was called like that on my setup), deleting it's name basically from different fields. Otherwise it wouldn't give me the quest. Here's the result, same quest, different givers: