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CodePrincess wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:55 pmSo, I have two game saves. One is at the start of the conversation, the other is a couple of entries in. If I load either of them when no conversations are active, they run fine. ...
If I load them while any conversation is running, they skip straight to entry 7, but with their expected entry's sequences played out ...

CodePrincess wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:55 pmThere's a similar issue where if you load a save with no active dialogue and the previous game state had an active conversation, that conversation remains open in the newly loaded game. It seemed like the simplest solution was to make an AC variable monitor when a conversation was started, then have the Pause menu's resume button's on_click action list shut down any conversations that don't line up.

CodePrincess wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:55 pmFinally, it seems the AC variables don't update when a game is loaded with an inventory open during a conversation.

To trigger this bug, start a conversation, click the Court Record button and create two saves, each with a different item in the inventory selected. Then, try loading either save. Nothing will seem to happen.

Both saves skip straight to entry 7? Even though you didn't save while it the conversation was on entry 7?

Maybe your variable check is causing the load game actionlist to jump past the action that fades out the pause menu. What if you configure your load game actionlist to always run the Third Party: Dialogue System Conversation > Stop Conversation action before loading the game, without checking a variable? If no DS conversation is active, the action won't do anything.

Do you mean that it won't load the saved game, or when you load the saved game it doesn't have the saved AV variable values?

CodePrincess wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:41 am

Both saves skip straight to entry 7? Even though you didn't save while it the conversation was on entry 7?

Exactly!

CodePrincess wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:41 am

Do you mean that it won't load the saved game, or when you load the saved game it doesn't have the saved AV variable values?

AV is the Adventure Creator variables, right? If so, yes, that's right, the AV vars don't reflect the values in the game save; the game successfully goes through the motions of loading a game, yet I don't see any changes in the variables that are supposed to reflect which inventory menu is open, or which category is selected, or which item is highlighted.

Please temporarily set the Dialogue Manager's Other Settings > Debug Level to Info. Then reproduce the issue. The Dialogue System will log every entry that it goes through, including every Sequence that it plays. This may give you some insight into what's going on under the hood.

How is your save system set up? Are you using a Dialogue System Saver component? If so, please make sure Skip Apply Data After Frames If Apply Immediate is ticked.

Can you configure your save process to call the Adventure Creator Bridge component's SyncLuaToAdventureCreator() method just before saving?

public class SyncLuaToAC : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void SyncLuaToAdventureCreator()
    {
        // A shot at following Tony Li's advice from the PixelCrushers' forum.
        // I hope I did this right.
        SyncLuaToAC luaToAC = new SyncLuaToAC();
        luaToAC.SyncLuaToAdventureCreator();
    }
}

... just before saving?