Setting up interactive shop

[darkdollgames]

Hello! I'm trying to set up a shop in my game. What I'm hoping to have is:

A room full of items displayed on tables. I'd like the player to be able to go to each item, inspect it, and the shopkeeper NPC will explain what the item is, and how much it costs, then the player will have the option to buy it.

I have a 'Usable' component on each of the items, as well as a Dialogue System Trigger to start a conversation. I created a conversation for the NPC Shopkeeper which has dialogue for each item.

My question is, how can I connect it all so that the NPC knows which item the player is inspecting?

I realize I could just create a unique conversation for each item, but that seems inefficient?

Any help is appreciated! Thank you

[Tony Li]

Hi,

This is getting into moderately advanced techniques, but: You can set a Dialogue System variable to the name of an item before starting the conversation. In the conversation, use that variable value to access an item's info in the dialogue database's Items table.

Here's an example:

DS_ShopExample_2024-12-09.unitypackage

[darkdollgames]

Thank you, this worked perfectly! Just wanted to mention that in case anyone wants to do the same.

[Tony Li]

Great! Glad to help.