Linking different conversations together

[aandinofreeland]

I am using Quest Machine and this system for my game and I want to set it up so I can link conversations together or a way to "fake" do this. The reason I need to set this up like this is because most of my dialogue is generated using scriptable objects I made. When a quest is eligible to be acquired from an npc a quest response is created. Since quests span over multiple npcs it would be much easier to use Dialogue Systems conversation tree to control things. This creates an issue where my quests use the conversation tree, but my other dialogue is being generated at runtime not using a preset conversation tree. So if the player clicks to inquire on a quest I need a way to still display the dialogue text and trigger the conditions and script section in the conversation nodes.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

You can create a new database and conversation at runtime, link from your prewritten conversation to the runtime conversation, and load your new database into the Dialogue System.

To create a new database and conversation, see: How To: Create Dialogue Database At Runtime

The code in that URL also shows how to link dialogue entries. You can link a dialogue entry from your prewritten conversation to the first node of your runtime conversation.

[aandinofreeland]

I already have this part setup. What I'm trying to do now is take my current conversation I made and If player clicks the quest related response it accesses a different conversation and links it to current conversation. So essentially merging 2 different conversations together, where the 2nd conversation starts at the player response that triggers the 2nd conversation.

For the quest player response node I want it to do something like Variable[StartQuestConversation("VariableQuest")]. This way I can make all my quest conversations and have one response that points the response to the relative quest related conversation. So if Alice gives a quest once your best friends and you click the "Inquire about Alice's struggles" response she will then start the conversation that begins her quest that you unlock once she becomes best friends with you.

Sorry if this is confusing, it feels very complicated what I'm trying to do.

[Tony Li]

If I understand correctly, the simplest way would be to make a link from your "hub" conversation to every possible quest conversation, and lock them off with Conditions.

If that's not possible -- for example, if you really must create the quest conversations at runtime -- then you can still create a link from the hub conversation to the quest conversation. For example, say your hub conversation has ID 1, and entry ID 7 should link to your runtime conversation. Let's also assume that your runtime conversation has ID 1000, and the first entry ID is 1. Then:

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var originEntry = DialogueManager.masterDatabase.GetDialogueEntry(1, 7);
originEntry.outgoingLinks.Clear(); // Clear any old links to old quests.
originEntry.outgoingLinks.Add(new Link(1, 7, 1000, 1));