Useful use cases of non-text dialogue node (for me at least)

[fkkcloud]

Hi,

I wanted to play some animations "only / no text" before Starting another conversation that uses a different Dialogue UI like SMS.

So I started the conversation with the default Dialogue with no texts but Sequence Commands only like below.

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Since my default dialogue UI and SMS dialogue UI - both use Continue Button, Using the continue button setting is "Always" as default.
But for this specific conversation which is kinda like the pre animation stage to open SMS conversation, I made the continue button to be Never so it just runs through the node automatically.

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Since my dialogue scenes are mostly triggers "StartConversation" as the scene is loaded so I just wanted to make it all work within "Conversation"..

I don't know if its ideal way or let me know if you know a better suggestion on how should I do it.

Custom sequencer command that I have "ConversationToSMS(...)" closes the current conversation and Starts a new conversation with its given name.

[Tony Li]

Yes, that's fine.

You can also use SetDialoguePanel() to temporarily show or hide the current dialogue UI if you ever need to do that.

[fkkcloud]

That sounds like a useful safer case

[fkkcloud]

This is what I came up with - based on your suggestion.
Made an invisible canvasGroup.alpha 0 panel.
Using its dialogue text as a "description"
ANIMATION ONLY, SFX ONLY, CAMERA SHAKE ONLY, etc. Since this panel does not have Continue Button + my default display setting is ContinueButton 'Always" so calling "Continue()@delay" is a perfect solution for me! Thank you!

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[Tony Li]

Great! I'm glad you found a good solution that works for you. Thanks for sharing your solution so other people can refer to it in the future in case they're looking for something similar.