Two Dialogue Styles? What Do?

[Littlenorwegians]

Hello! One minor problem going on here.

There's some logic in place that I can't detect that keeps an avatar object disabled until a conversation starts.
Kinda fine, but I've got something of an elaborate setup.

Is there a way to make both the conversing subjects just stay activated upon enabling? Right now for instance the second person isn't active until he talks.

EDIT: Video of the issue

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Set the subtitle panels' Visibility dropdowns to Always From Start.

[Littlenorwegians]

Sadly, it is not working for me.



Something seems to disable these gameobjects or something.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Please try this:

On your dialogue UI's StandardDialogueUI component, tick Conversation UI Elements > Don't Deactivate Main Panel.

On the Dialogue Panel, remove the Canvas Group and Animator components, clear the UIPanel component's Show Animator Trigger and Hide Animation Trigger, and UNtick Deactivate On Hidden.

In your conversation, make sure Calico and Brindle are assigned as the conversation participants both in the conversation itself and the dialogue entries in the Dialogue Editor, and that their GameObjects are assigned to the Dialogue System Trigger's Conversation Actor and Conversation Conversant fields if the actors have corresponding GameObjects.

[Littlenorwegians]

Right. I did all that, but I am sadly still having the same problem.

I wonder what the issue is. This is so close to being finished.

[Tony Li]

It's probably the same thing on the subtitle panels. On both subtitle panels:

• Remove the Canvas Group and Animator components
• Clear the StandardUISubtitlePanel's Show Animation Trigger and Hide Animation Trigger fields
• UNtick Deactivate On Hidden

[Littlenorwegians]

There we go!! We're golden. It now works perfectly.

One small quasi-related thing. I can't get "delay" commands to work in my script.
AnimatorPlay(Brindle_Smile, SpeakerPortrait);
Delay(2); SendMessage(EndPhoneCall, , PhoneSystem);

^ Like this piece of code is just meant to wait for 2 seconds after a smile animation is done, but currently not working. What am I doing wrong?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

All sequencer commands will attempt to run immediately unless you provide timing information. This means Delay(2) and SendMessage(EndPhoneCall, , PhoneSystem) will both attempt to run immediately, independently of each other.

Try something like:

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AnimatorPlay(Brindle_Smile, SpeakerPortrait);
SendMessage(EndPhoneCall, , PhoneSystem)@2;

You can also wait for sequencer messages in sequencer commands, like:

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AnimatorPlayWait(Brindle_Wave, SpeakerPortrait)->Message(DoneWaving);
SendMessage(EndPhoneCall, , PhoneSystem)@Message(DoneWaving)

The first command waits until the animation is done. Then it sends an arbitrary message "DoneWaving". The second command waits for the "DoneWaving" message.

There's also a built-in message "Typed" that happens when the typewriter effect is done. It's often used like this:

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AnimatorPlay(Talk);
required AnimatorPlay(Idle)@(Typed)

The "required" keyword guarantees that the command plays even if the player skips ahead before the typing is finished.

[Littlenorwegians]

Thank you very much

Here you can see the results of it in action.


Big thanks as always. You are a lifesaver, Tony Li.

[Tony Li]

Very nice! I like the camera shot and animation when the player answers the call.