How can I hide the current bark?

[ds2497]

Hi there!

I'm adding details to the bark on idle, and I would like to know:

A. How can I hide the current bark? For instance, I want the farmer Npc to conceal the ongoing bark line the moment he gets attacked.

B. How to switch a bark line? For example, the soldier Npc might be saying something cheerful when he's happy, but when he witnesses someone getting killed, he will stop the "Happy Bark" and switch to the "Anxious Bark." Here is my current code, but it's not working.





C. How do you set the duration of a bark? For instance, I want the bark UI to appear for only 3 seconds.

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

A. How can I hide the current bark? For instance, I want the farmer Npc to conceal the ongoing bark line the moment he gets attacked.

Call the bark UI's Hide() method. Example:

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public void OnAttacked()
{
    GetComponentInChildren<IBarkUI>().Hide();
}

B. How to switch a bark line? For example, the soldier Npc might be saying something cheerful when he's happy, but when he witnesses someone getting killed, he will stop the "Happy Bark" and switch to the "Anxious Bark." Here is my current code, but it's not working.

That code should work, but another option is to set the Conditions fields of your bark conversation so choose the right barks:

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You could set a custom field in the actor and then check that field in the conversation. For example, say you've added a custom Boolean field named "IsInBattle". Set the Conditions of the <Idle> group node to:

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Actor["Your_Character"].IsInBattle == false

and do the same for the <In Combat> group node except check if it's true. Then some example C# code:

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public void OnAttacked()
{
    GetComponentInChildren<IBarkUI>().Hide();
    DialogueLua.SetActorField("Your Character", "IsInBattle", true);
}

C. How do you set the duration of a bark? For instance, I want the bark UI to appear for only 3 seconds.

Inspect the bark UI and set its Duration to 3.

If you want to vary the duration for each bark, set Bark Duration to a low, minimum value and tick Wait Until Sequence Ends. Then set the Sequence field for each bark, such as this to delay for 2.5 seconds: Delay(2.5)

[ds2497]

Thank you for your assistance!

I had the "Wait for Continue" option checked, which caused some features to not work as expected. It took me a while to resolve the issue, but everything is functioning correctly now. Thanks again!

[Tony Li]

Glad you got it working!