Best Way to Link Multiple Conversations Together?

[musicROCKS013]

For example, if I want a conversation to play when I use a Useable, I might want one conversation to play that says "Go get this item!" Then the object will wait until that item is got (or whatever condition must be met) and it will be able to trigger the second conversation "Great job!"

How would I link multiple conversations or messages like this?

I've thought about using multiple objects for each conversation and turning them off and on corresponding to what stage of the process you're at, but I just thought I should ask if there's a better way to do this.

Also, if I want to have more than one "player" object in a local multiplayer game, I want to have them each trigger different conversations, and having multiple useable objects would also probably work. Again, just thought I'd make sure in case I was missing something.

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

I recommend using one conversation with different branches. Use Conditions to determine which branch to follow. Please see Private Hart's conversation in DemoScene1. It uses Conditions to check the state of a quest and go down the appropriate branch. For info about Conditions: Conversation Conditions Tutorial.

Local multiplayer is very possible but a little more work. The Dialogue System has one set of variables and quests. If you're making a single player game, you can define a Dialogue System variable named, for example, "GotItem" that you can set true or false. In a conversation, you can check Conditions like:

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Variable["GotItem"] == true

With local multiplayer, you'll want multiple variables, called for example "Player1_GotItem", "Player2_GotItem", etc. When the Dialogue System starts a conversation, it sets a variable named "Actor" to whichever GameObject is assigned as the active conversation's actor. For example, it could set the variable to "Player1". To check the player-specific variable (Player1_GotItem, Player2_GotItem, etc.), you'd need to use:

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Variable[Variable["Actor"] .. "_GotItem"] == true

When Player1 talks to the object, this will be turned into:

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Variable["Player1_GotItem"] == true