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Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:56 am**

[Unity 2019.4.12f1 - DS v2.2.11]

Hi Tony!

I'm still playing around with the different events in order to create a chain of sequences. In other words I want to:

Run a sequence
Wait for it to finish

then repeat the process.

Attempting to do so, I noticed that the OnSequenceStart \ OnSequenceEnd events seem to only be triggered when Sequences get called from within a Conversation. If in a custom C# script I include either DialogueManager.PlaySequence() or DialogueManager.instance.PlaySequence(), the referenced sequences would run, but I don't get any event back.

FWIW, I have ticked the Inform Sequence Start And End tickbox in the Dialogue Manager and also attached to it a custom "event broadcaster" script that for each of the events invokes a custom event.

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using UnityEngine;
using PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem;

public class DialogueSystemEventBroadcaster : MonoBehaviour
{
    public delegate void Delegate_OnConversationStart(Transform actor);
    public static event Delegate_OnConversationStart onConversationStart;

    public delegate void Delegate_OnConversationEnd(Transform actor);
    public static event Delegate_OnConversationEnd onConversationEnd;

    public delegate void Delegate_OnSequenceStart(Transform actor);
    public static event Delegate_OnSequenceStart onSequenceStart;

    public delegate void Delegate_OnSequenceEnd(Transform actor);
    public static event Delegate_OnSequenceEnd onSequenceEnd;

    public void OnConversationStart(Transform actor) => onConversationStart?.Invoke(actor);
    public void OnConversationEnd(Transform actor) => onConversationEnd?.Invoke(actor);
    public void OnSequenceStart(Transform actor) => onSequenceStart?.Invoke(actor);
    public void OnSequenceEnd(Transform actor) => onSequenceEnd?.Invoke(actor);
}

The above code works, meaning that I am able to have methods subscribe to each of these events (that's how I found out the OnSequenceStart \ OnSequenceEnd seem not to trigger outside of Conversations). I was also wondering if there was a way to pass the Sequence as a string, rather than the Actor's Transform.

Am I missing something?

Thanks a lot in advance, as always!

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:26 am**

Hi,

DialogueManager.PlaySequence() has several variants. One of them has a parameter to specify whether to inform participants when a sequence starts/ends:

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PlaySequence(string sequence, Transform speaker, Transform listener, bool informParticipants)

There isn't a built-in way to pass the sequence as a string. You could write a wrapper for DialogueManager.PlaySequence() that records the sequence string in a variable so you can reference it later.

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:00 am**

Tony Li wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:26 am DialogueManager.PlaySequence() has several variants. One of them has a parameter to specify whether to inform participants when a sequence starts/ends:
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PlaySequence(string sequence, Transform speaker, Transform listener, bool informParticipants)

Thank you, it seems to be working!

I wrongly assumed that PlaySequence would automatically play "by the rules" set in the Dialogue Manager regardless and didn't think to try the different variants

Posted: **Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:48 pm**

The Dialogue Manager's checkbox only applies to sequences in conversations. I think that note is tucked away in a tooltip; sorry for the confusion.

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