Alert display 'nil'

[mgregoirelds]

Hello Tony, I'm having a weird issue where, after my first dialogue is being shown in the game and is completed, I do have an Alert with 'nil' being displayed. While debugging, I found out that in CheckAlerts(), isConversationActive is set to false. Any idea why this value is set as such?

[Tony Li]

Hi Maxime,

If the first dialogue is completed, then isConversationActive should be false, correct?

Did you remove the Alert variable from your dialogue database? Can you add it back? I think that should fix it. In the next update, I'll make sure that the Dialogue System doesn't show 'nil' if the Alert variable isn't in the database.

[mgregoirelds]

If the first dialogue is completed, then isConversationActive should be false, correct?

Ahah, yes you are right!

Did you remove the Alert variable from your dialogue database? Can you add it back? I think that should fix it. In the next update, I'll make sure that the Dialogue System doesn't show 'nil' if the Alert variable isn't in the database.

I don't think I ever created an Alert variable in the database as I'm always importing directly from articy and I don't make any custom change in the database file. However, the behavior is quite strange: previous to my first conversation, Alert is found and it is returning an empty string. Then, after my first conversation, Alert is not found and returns nil.

Anyway, I fixed the issue by adding manually an Alert variable in my database.

[Tony Li]

Ultimately it's a bug, and I'll fix it in the next update. I'll send you a patch later today.

[mgregoirelds]

Ultimately it's a bug, and I'll fix it in the next update. I'll send you a patch later today.

Ok, I wasn't sure. For now, I've created the 'Alert' variable in the database and all is good. Thanks Tony!