Auto Play and Skip All buttons

[mac]

Thanks Tony, I just noticed that whenever I interact with Skip All or Auto Play buttons (doesn't matter if they are turned on or off, simply using these buttons seem to do it), the dialogue continues normally, but sequences don't play. I have attached a video where you can see a comparison, in the first case I interact with Skip All and my sequence where the NPC moves doesn't play, and in the second where I don't click on Skip All, the sequence plays like it should.

[Tony Li]

Auto Play shouldn't affect sequences since it just sets the continue mode to Never, but Skip All definitely will.

There are two ways to handle that. If all of your sequencer commands can run immediately, instead of over time, you can change the ConversationControl script's OnConversationLine method to:

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    void OnConversationLine(Subtitle subtitle)
    {
        if (skipAll)
        {
            subtitle.sequence = "Continue(); " + subtitle.sequence;
        }
    }

Make sure commands that must run have 'required' in front of them, or change the line in the method above to something like:

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subtitle.sequence = "Continue()@0.01; " + subtitle.sequence;

to give them a frame to run.

But if sequences play over time -- e.g., MoveTo(Stairs,,3) or AnimatorPlayWait(Dance) -- you'll need to handle it differently since you won't really be skipping. The easiest may be to add a 'required' command that plays at the end to make sure things are in the right state. For example, change this:

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MoveTo(Stairs,,3); // Move speaker to stairs over 3 seconds

to:

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MoveTo(Stairs,,3); // Move speaker to Stairs over 3 seconds
required MoveTo(Stairs)@3; // At the 3-second mark (or earlier if skipping), snap speaker to Stairs

[mac]

Understood,

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subtitle.sequence = "Continue()@0.01; " + subtitle.sequence;

worked
While we are here, can you tell me why do I have to click continue two times here to end the dialogue?



My Continue button is set to always here, if I have it set to Optional, everything works normally, after PC line, the dialogue ends and closes without having to click on continue twice. Attached a picture of my current dialogue setup

[Tony Li]

Hi,

I don't know. It looks like the typewriter is done typing. If the typewriter were still going, the first click would generally fast-forward the typewriter, and the second click would advance the conversation. But that doesn't look to be the case here.

I see the final <End> node has a Sequence. What's the Sequence?

If you temporarily set the Dialogue Manager's Debug Level to Info and reproduce the issue, does the Console window shed any light on the issue?

[mac]

This is what my sequencer does:

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public class SequencerCommandAudreyMove : SequencerCommand
    { 

        public void Awake()
        {
      

            GameObject directressObj = GameObject.Find("Audrey");
            DirectressMovement dirMove = directressObj.GetComponent<DirectressMovement>();
            dirMove.Move();

            print("MOVING EVENT PLAYED");

            Stop();
        }

    }

Attached image of how the info debug looks in this case.

[Tony Li]

I don't know. Feel free to send a reproduction project to tony (at) pixelcrushers.com.

Or you could try adding a Continue() to the last node's Sequence. If SequencerCommandAudreyMove waits until Audrey has finished moving before calling Stop(), you could do something like:

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AudreyMove()->Message(Moved);
Continue()@Message(Moved)

[mac]

Adding Continue() to the last node Sequence worked! Thank you Tony

[mac]

Another question, is there any stored reference to the Dialogue System Trigger that called the ongoing dialogue? Because I want to reenable the Dialogue System Trigger when the player answers something like "Not now, we can continue later." I know I could make a sequencer for each Dialogue System Trigger but it would be very handy if instead of having a different sequencer for each trigger, I had a universal sequencer like this: (Pseudocode)

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SequencerCommandReenableTrigger: SequencerCommand

	void Awake() 
	{
		 DialogueManager.LastInteractedDialogueSystemTrigger.enabled = true;
		 Stop();
	}

[Tony Li]

Another question, is there any stored reference to the Dialogue System Trigger that called the ongoing dialogue?

No, but you can make a subclass of DialogueSystemTrigger that stores a reference. Example:

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public class CustomDialogueSystemTrigger : DialogueSystemTrigger
{
    public static DialogueSystemTrigger LastInteractedDialogueSystemTrigger = null;
    
    protected override void DoConversationAction(Transform actor)
    {
        LastInteractedDialogueSystemTrigger = this;
        base.DoConversationAction(actor);
    }
}

[mac]

Alright, but how do I get this stored reference now?

The sequencer I'm trying is not working

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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem;

namespace PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem.SequencerCommands
{

    public class SequencerCommandReenableDialogue : SequencerCommand
    { 

        public void Awake()
        {

            DialogueSystemTrigger dialogueTrigger = FindObjectOfType<DialogueSystemTrigger>();
            dialogueTrigger.LastInteractedSystemTrigger.enabled = true; //Missing reference (LastInteractedSystemTrigger)

            Stop();
        }

    }

}