We ran into an issue in which we need our savegames possibly patchable. Meaning:
An undiscovered dialogue bug makes into the production or several
We fix it in Articy
We patch the game
Now savegames all point to the IDs of the first conversion while we have a newer conversion.
We could make a conversion table using the Articy IDs and map an older version of the savegame using a migration chart.
We could make our own analogous simStatus saving/facility which uses the Articy ID.
Are there any alternatives here that we haven't thought about?
I'm working Dialogue System 1.7.6, which I will release by the end of the week. This version fixes a bug in 1.7.5 identified by another studio using articy:draft. Variables containing periods ( . ) in their names -- such as variables converted from articy -- don't load properly. This is already fixed in a patch that I can send you if you need it sooner. The patch also converts articy faster.
I'll also incorporate an option to record SimStatus by a field that you specify, such as Articy ID, so you can continue to use the same saved games when you patch your game.
We updated our dialogue system to 1.7.6, but the option to use Articy ID field to strore sim status is still not having the intended effect. I suspect it has to do with us using NLua.
I looked into the PersistentDataManager source file and noticed that AppendConversationData method has #if USE_NLUA compiler directives. Will the functionality be updated for NLua at some later version?
