Pause conversation until custom UI button is clicked?

[Icolino7]

Hi, there.

Is there a way to pause conversation until a user hits a specific custom UI button?

Or end it and start a new conversation?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Is there a way to pause conversation until a user hits a specific custom UI button?

There are 2 ways:

1. Use a continue button.

• If you want to do this for all dialogue entry nodes in the conversation, set the Dialogue Manager's Subtitle Settings > Continue Button dropdown to Always.
• If you only want to do it in a specific node, use SetContinueMode() in the node's Sequence, such as:

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  SetContinueMode(true);
  required SetContinueMode(false)@Message(Continue)

2. Or tell the Sequence to wait for a message. Configure your custom UI button to send that message. Set the node's Sequence to something like:

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WaitForMessage(MyMessage)

and configure your UI button's OnClick() event to call a C# script method with this line of code:

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PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem.Sequencer.Message("MyMessage");

Or end it and start a new conversation?

You can configure your custom UI button to run a C# method like this instead:

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using PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem; //<-- Include at top of script.
...
public void SwitchConversation(string newConversation)
{
    DialogueManager.StopConversation(); // End the current conversation.
    DialogueManager.StartConversation(newConversation); // Start the new conversation.
}

[Icolino7]

Wow, great customer support. I appreciate this very much. Message system is working fine. Thanks learning here a lot.

Can you answer me one more question?

How can I make it that the last sequence of the dialog is not skippable, unless I send the message to skip it.

Right now if I click directly on the dialog it skips the last sequence without waiting for my message.

[Tony Li]

To wait for a message, put this in the Sequence field:

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WaitForMessage(msg)

where msg is the message to wait for. Send this message using C# code: Sequencer.Message(msg)

However, if you have enabled continue buttons, then the player can still skip ahead by clicking the continue button. To disable the continue button, put this in the Sequence field:

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SetContinueMode(false)

You can combine them in the Sequence:

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SetContinueMode(false);
WaitForMessage(msg)