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Hi Tony,
what is the best approach to dynamically load dialogues DBs at level start? I wrote myself a component that finds Dialogue Manager and sets the DB to the one I choose, but it fails to work.

Best

Hi,

Add an Extra Databases component:



Set the Add Trigger to OnStart, and assign your databases to the Databases section.

Hi Tony,
splendid! I'm sure I've read about it, but there's so many features in DS, I must have forgotten about this one...

And it doesn't matter what is the Initial Database set in Dialogue Manager? Or should I set this to null?

Best,
Artur

Hi Artur,

You can set it to null and ignore the warning that no initial database is assigned.

Instead, I prefer to assign a global database to the Initial Database. This database contains all the data that persists across scene changes, such as global variables, global quests, etc. -- basically anything that needs to be in a saved game file.

Then in each scene I use Extra Databases to load databases that are only needed in that scene. The Add Trigger is OnStart, and the Remove Trigger is OnDestroy.

Hi Tony,
that makes perfect sense. Thank you for advice!
Artur