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[Mchia_Soo]

Hey Tony!

Have a doubt regarding the Journal text - how to display all the quest states in the Journal so that my txt file can save whatever data I have set in any quest state as well as other level?

[Tony Li]

Quest Machine has a save system. Is that what you want to use? I'm not sure what your goal is. If you want to save the urrent states of quests when changing scenes and in saved games, use the save system. The save system is set up in the Demo scene.

[Mchia_Soo]

I haven't checked on the save system yet. I wanna save the data that displays in the Journal only, can the save system do that?

[Tony Li]

The information that displays in the journal is generated dynamically at runtime based on the quest's current states.

It's possible to get this information in your own scripts at runtime, too. For example:

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var quest = QuestMachine.GetQuestInstance("My Quest");
var journalContent = quest.GetContentList(QuestContentCategory.Journal);
foreach (var content in journalContent)
{
    Debug.Log(content.runtimeText);
}

However, you can configure the save system to only save the player's Quest Journal -- that is, the states of the player's quests.

[Mchia_Soo]

Yes, but is there any way to stop the Journal information from being generated at runtime as I prefer the information will be generated continuously instead of replacing it?

For the save system, where can I change to save the Quest Journal only?

[Tony Li]

Yes, but is there any way to stop the Journal information from being generated at runtime as I prefer the information will be generated continuously instead of replacing it?

That's the way Quest Machine is designed. If you want to keep the same text when a node changes from Active to True, currently you can put the same text in the Active and True states' Dialogue Text. In the next update, there will be a new content type that points to another content. This way you can have the text in two places while only having one content of it.

For the save system, where can I change to save the Quest Journal only?

Tick the Quest Journal's Save Settings, and untick the others (such as Quest Givers, etc.). The save system will only save what you have specified to save.

[Mchia_Soo]

Tick the Quest Journal's Save Settings, and untick the others (such as Quest Givers, etc.). The save system will only save what you have specified to save

The Quest Journal in Player?

I have tried that and have set my save key is PlayerJournal. But I couldn't find any file related. Where am I supposed to get the Journal data?

[Mchia_Soo]

Oh wait, do you mean this?

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Or the save system script?

[Tony Li]

We may be talking about different things.

Quest Machine has a save system.

The save system can save and restore the current state of the game. To do this, it relies in "saver" components. These are components that have 2 functions:

1. RecordData: Records some information about the game. The QuestJournal script is a saver. It records the states of the quests in its Quests list.

2. ApplyData: Restores previously-recorded information. The QuestJournal restores the Quests list to the state that was previously recorded.


To save the current state of the game, the save system works in 2 steps:

1. RecordSavedGameData: Tells all savers to record their data into a dictionary called SavedGameData.

2. Then it saves that dictionary to permanent storage such as disk or PlayerPrefs.


The information that QuestJournal records in the dictionary is not in an easily readable format. However, you can save it to JSON text format like this:

1. Make sure your scene has a GameObject with a SaveSystem component and a JsonDataSerializer component.

2. Call the QuestJournal's RecordData() method. This will return a string that contains the recorded data in JSON format.


I hope that information helps. If not, please provide more details or some screenshots/mockups that illustrate what you want to do.

[Mchia_Soo]

Call the QuestJournal's RecordData() method. This will return a string that contains the recorded data in JSON format.

Calling this method in JsonDataSerializer script?