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HawkX wrote:Hi, I have been playing with the demo version for about a week now... and with the sale going on, I'd like to see if i can fix (or figure out) my main problems with the system and buy it if everything work out

1) Whenever I click play, there is a 1-5 frame where i see the UI frame displayed before it turn off... I tried adding a canvas group and changing the alpha value, that seemed to work for about 2 days, but the problem came back eventually.... I also tried manually disabling gameobjects under the canvas but nothing worked... any suggestion to fix this? (EDIT : I might have actually fixed it... I added DialogueSystemController to the top of the Script Execution Order and it seemed to have fixed it)... so i guess you can disregard this one... two remaining

HawkX wrote:2) In my project, I load the dialogue manager at the start and keep it in my "do not destroy" game object... i then manually call conversations when needed using "DialogueManager.StartConversation(stringVar);" which works perfectly for what i need... However, I'd like to be able to do a "if conversation exist(stringVar)" before to avoir errors... and I was not able to find that function...

if (DialogueManager.MasterDatabase.GetConversation(stringVar) != null) {
    DialogueManager.StartConversation(stringVar);
}

HawkX wrote:3) Finally, I tried using the "set component enabled" to disable components when there is a dialogue occuring... However, most of my interaction (in a point and click game) are made by buttons (dozens of them which varies depending on the scene)... i'd like to turn off actual GameObjects (which are holding all the interactions) when a conversation occurs so that players cannot keep playing while a conversation is occuring...

If i can manage to find solutions to those 3 issues i will 100% get the plugin as it works really well and does everything I need it to!

Thank you very much for your time and have a great day!

HawkX wrote:wow... you really are amazing

first, you answer SOOO fast, and you have answer to everything!! thats really something!

setting alpha group to 0 fixed the first few frame issue!

and both of your other answer were spot on as well! THANK YOU!

HawkX wrote:Another super small question... since I added the dialogue manager prefab to my scene, the scene cannot seem to stay "saved"... i often have to save it 5 to 10 times in a row for the little * to go away in the title bar... is there some super easy fix you know about that?

HawkX wrote:I was also wondering, if i have other followup questions in the future, (which i might eventually) do you prefer i keep this topic and reply here instead of creating a new one?

HawkX wrote:Again, thank you so much for your time! I will 100% buy your system!

HawkX wrote:After setting Canvas Group Alpha to 0, the first few frame glitch was gone... However, I cannot see the panels at all anymore!
In the prefab, there is a "NOTE" saying "to see the panel, set group alpha to 1"... hehe...
When setting it back to 1, the bug is back and the canvas are visible again... any other suggestion?

HawkX wrote:Also, I added the "Set Active on Dialogue Event" component in one of my scene... selected the database, put trigger "on conversations" since that is what i use (also tried both others to be sure)... but that still doesnt seem to accept Gameobject... i dragged in my 2 empty gameobjects which holds all the stuff i want to make invisible during conversation (both on start to false, both on end back to true), but the icons in the 2 element slots is the one for the Rect Transform and not for the gameobject icon... and i dont think you can set rect transform to not active (false)...

HawkX wrote:For the 2nd part (setting game objects to off),
Yes I am able to drag the gameobject from the hierarchy to the Set active on Dialogue Event... however (as shown in the imgur screenshot) its the transform that is dragged and not the gameobject itself (at least when I use public GameObject something) and then drag a game object on a script, the icon is the one of the gameobject itself and not of the transform... as far as i know, you cannot "toggle off" a transform (setactive(false) or enabled = false)... and as expected, having both of them to false does nothing when playing the game itself.

HawkX wrote:Edit : I tried going the manual route and creating my own script (method) myself... with the following lines included :

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	public GameObject go1;
	public GameObject go2;

	void OnConversationStart ()
	{
		go1.SetActive(false);
		go2.SetActive(false);
	}

	void OnConversationEnd ()
	{
		go1.SetActive(true);
		go2.SetActive(true);
	}

when dragging the gameobjects to the public slots of that script, the icon was the right one, but that still did not work either... as i kept reading, i noticed you have a (Transform Actor) that you pass at the same time... however, i dont use an actor, the player is "invisible" and has no physical gameobject... (first person point and click) the dialogues are monologues actually