OnConversation events?

[NotVeryProfessional]

Hey everyone,

I've recently bought the Dialogue System and am integrating it into my game.

I'd like to blur the background whenever a dialog is active. Right now I've attached a simple script to the Dialog Panel that triggers on OnEnabled and OnDisabled but if I want to use Warmup, that breaks the logic (it triggers the script).

So I was wondering if there's something like OnConversationStart and OnConversationEnd events? I couldn't find anything in the manual.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Thanks for using the Dialogue System!

If you import the patch available on the Dialogue System Extras page (inside the "Updated for 2.2.13" foldout), your script can check if DialogueSystemController.isWarmingUp is true. If it's true, then don't do the blur.

Example:

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using PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem;
...
void OnEnable() // Added to Dialogue Panel.
{
    if (DialogueSystemController.isWarmingUp)
    {
        // Don't blur. We're just warming up, not doing a real conversation.
    }
    else
    {
        // (Your code here to blur the background.)
    }
}

Side note: Another option some devs use is to assign a dedicated camera (or camera prefab) to the Dialogue Manager's Camera & Cutscene Settings > Sequencer Camera. The Dialogue System will use this camera during conversations. Then they put post processing effects on it, such as a strong Depth of Field that blurs distant parts of the scene while keeping the conversing characters in focus.

[NotVeryProfessional]

That last is an interesting idea.

DOF won't work in my specific case because I have a largely 2D game and need to blur UI images, not 3D scenes. But I might be able to adapt the idea in another way.