How to directly check the conversation end before linked conversation start and get it's title?

[shortlin]

I used two conversation in one masterbase.and then I use conversation 1's node's end to link the other converstaion's Start.

I would like to know when the conversation 1's node end happen and get the title to do somthing.

Are there one direct way to get that?

I had a idea to deal that,such like using dialugue system event's "OnConversationLineEnd "to get every ConversationState,and then in "OnLinkedConversationStart" to get last conversation.

code is like :

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PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem.ConversationState[] cArray = new PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem.ConversationState[2];
int cArrayCount=0;

in OnConversationLineEnd

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        cArray[cArrayCount%2] =PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem.DialogueManager.CurrentConversationState;

        cArrayCount++;

in OnLinkedConversationStart

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        int lastIndex=0;
        if(cArrayCount % 2==0)
        {
            lastIndex=1;
        }
        	Debug.Log(PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem.DialogueManager.MasterDatabase.GetConversation(cArray[lastIndex].subtitle.dialogueEntry.conversationID).Title);

It could get last conversation's title and just late one line conversation to do something.But that's not realy what I want.I want to get the end before the linked conversation start.
Are there one better way to get that?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

I'm not 100% clear on what you want to do. But I think you could do something like this:

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public class DoSomethingOnConversationChange : MonoBehaviour
{
    DialogueEntry previousEntry;
    
    void OnConversationStart(Transform actor)
    {
        previousEntry = null;
    }
    
    void OnPrepareConversationLine(DialogueEntry upcomingEntry)
    {
        if (previousEntry != null && previousEntry.conversationID != upcomingEntry.conversationID)
        {
            // Will link to new conversation. Do your thing here.
        }
        previousEntry = upcomingEntry;
    }
}

[shortlin]

Sorry to my poor English.
Thanks to your answer to let my solution has a better way.
But I mean..

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left blue node is in conversation 10005,I linked it to conversation 10008''s start node.

I want to do something in this blue node with it's conversation title[10005](It's not only one conversation like this,so I just used OnLinkedConversationStart Event to do something what I want to do).I thought maybe there are some way could let me directly call the node event. But I did not find this event,so I just had an idea was getting every state to memory the previousEntry in every node event.And then I used OnLinkedConversationStart to use the previousEntry's tile let me use its title to do something .But this is not really good way to solve my origin problem.

[Tony Li]

Can you use the blue node's Sequence or Script field?

In the Sequence field, you can use sequencer commands. More info: Sequences, Tutorials

In the Script field, you can use Lua expressions. More info: Lua

[shortlin]

I can use Lua function.so I guess you you want me write the function in that node,that I could really get the title directly.
But I will not be responsible for the conversation job.That means, I should tell the guy who will do this job to copy the function code in the Linked conversation nodes.

m...maybe it's the better way if I want my code happen in right time.

But I preferred using Dialogue System Event,just because I use UnityAction to add the event Listener to do different situation.So if I want to use this kind solution,maybe I should use original method.Thank you.

[Tony Li]

Sounds good. If you run into any issues or have further questions, just let me know.