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Tony Li wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:14 pm Hi,

The How To Write Sequences section of the manual explains the "@" timing syntax. You can tell a command to wait for a specific time (e.g., Audio(hello)@5) or wait for a message string (e.g., Audio(hello)@Message(sayHello)).

Nothing sends the message string "Continued". This means "required SetDialoguePanel(true)@Message(Continued)" will wait forever. However, if you were using continue buttons, the "required" keyword guarantees that the command will run when the continue button is clicked, even though it hasn't received the message string yet. You can simulate a continue button click like this:

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{{default}};
SetDialoguePanel(false, immediate);
CinemachineZoom(CM vcam2, 7)->Message(DoneZooming);
Continue()@Message(DoneZooming);
required SetDialoguePanel(true)@Message(Continued);

For timelines, use a dialogue UI that doesn't have a visible continue button. Set the conversation's properties > Continue Button to Always. Then you can use Continue Conversation clips to advance each node.

For timelines, use a dialogue UI that doesn't have a visible continue button. Set the conversation's properties > Continue Button to Always. Then you can use Continue Conversation clips to advance each node.

Also i noticed that the timeline speed works but there is one problem, i put the Continue to never, because i want the timeline to be able to manage my dialogue entries with "continue" in the timeline and not by player input, but when i put the timeline speed to 0 obviously it can't go to the "continue" blocks anymore so to open the response menu i have the player to do a click on the screen to continue, so it stops to be an "automatic" flow is there a way to fix

also there is an other "logic" problem, i think i need to switch position of where i am in the timeline based on the response of the player, because if one of the answers gets to a short conversation, i should have the player to get to the bottom of the timeline, instead he continues to go through the "continue" buttons, and we have also the reverse problem where if i have a short branch and a long one, for example let's say i have this : a cutscene that's just like "a conversation between two character where at the end one of them jumps from a roof" in one of the conversation branch there is the player that with only 3 dialogues lines quickly ends the conversation so the timeline would be composed of a start conversation and 3 continueconversationclips, but if i have an other branch of the conversation which is much longer let's say one with 7 dialogue lines i don't have enough continueconversationclips in my timeline, unless i project it taking in mind the longest conversation , but again i need now a way to make the timeline jump to the continueconversationclips i need.
i made an image to explain myself further:

In the image above there are two branches a "green" one longer, and a "purple" one shorter
(PS:Also correct me if i am wrong but i noticed that if i do not have the dialogue manager put on a "Continue" button approach and i put a quick zoom transition in the sequence like with Zoom2D(//,0.2) and i do not put a Delay(end) the dialogue gets over quickly when the zoom is over, is this expected behavior or i am doing something wrong)

Tony Li wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:50 pm Hi,

You can set the timeline speed to zero in the Response Menu Sequence before the response menu nodes.

Instead of jumping to a position in the timeline, why don't you break up the timeline into multiple timelines and configure each response node to start the appropriate timeline.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Playables;
using UnityEngine.Timeline;
using System.Linq;




public class timelineMarker : MonoBehaviour

{
    public PlayableDirector playableDirector;
    // The # of the Marker you want to go to
    public int markerNum;


    void OnMouseUp()
    {

        var timelineAsset = playableDirector.playableAsset as TimelineAsset;
    
        var markers = timelineAsset.markerTrack.GetMarkers().OrderBy((marker) => marker.time).ToArray(); //to order the markers by time 
        playableDirector.Play();
        playableDirector.time = markers[markerNum].time;

    }
}

Tony Li wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:35 pm You could write a custom sequencer command to jump to a specified time in the timeline using that code.

using System.Linq;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Playables;
using UnityEngine.Timeline;

namespace PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem.SequencerCommands
{

    public class SequencerCommandTimelineJump : SequencerCommand
    {

        PlayableDirector playableDirector;

        int markerNum;

        void Start()
        {
            string directorName = GetParameter(0);
            markerNum = GetParameterAsInt(1);
         
            playableDirector = GameObject.Find(directorName).GetComponent<PlayableDirector>();
         
            var timelineAsset = playableDirector.playableAsset as TimelineAsset;
            var markers = timelineAsset.markerTrack.GetMarkers().OrderBy((marker) => marker.time).ToArray();
            
            playableDirector.Play();
            playableDirector.time = markers[markerNum].time;

            Stop();

        }
    }
}

Tony Li wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:59 pm Hi,

If the PlayableDirector is on the dialogue entry node's speaker (actor dropdown) or listener (conversant dropdown), you can use the special keywords "speaker" or "listener" instead of a GameObject name. This way you don't have to worry if the GameObject name changes.

For the two warnings, you'll need to figure out what is trying to start a second conversation or bark while a conversation is already active. These are just warnings; they won't break anything. But if you really do intend to start 'Domande Copy', for example, it won't start unless you've stopped the other conversation first, or if you tick the Dialogue Manager's Allow Simultaneous Conversations checkbox.

If the PlayableDirector is on the dialogue entry node's speaker (actor dropdown) or listener (conversant dropdown)

Shinos wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:02 pmWhile for the speaker/listener advice to get it to work in this scenario you mean that i should put the Playable director object on the speaker/listener npc ?

Tony Li wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:05 pm

Shinos wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:02 pmWhile for the speaker/listener advice to get it to work in this scenario you mean that i should put the Playable director object on the speaker/listener npc ?

Yes. That way you don't have to use a GameObject name in the Timeline() commands.