Speeding up tree search

[Ell_Diablo]

Hi!

Is it possible to speed up searching the dialogue tree? I mean i want to start from the beginning of the conversation and reach one node but without leaving other nodes between start and that one node. I know that there are two variables in Dialogue System Controller: minSubtitleSeconds and subtitleCharsPerSecond. I'm setting those variables like this: minSubtitleSeconds = 0.0f and subtitleCharsPerSecond = 1000000 but at present speed of 'searching' isn't good enough.

Thanks for your reply.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

By 'searching' do you mean playing through a conversation? Could you please describe a simple example conversation and how you'd like it to work?

[Ell_Diablo]

Hi,

Yes, by 'searching' I mean playing through conversation. I want to make text game like Lifeline (mobile game) using Dialogue System compatibility with Chat Mapper.
To say it more clearly I am currently in the process of implementing game state loading (i.e. player decisions and other entries), and I need to speed up this process. By loading I mean starting from the beginning of the conversation, then going through each node of the tree (through which the player went before) to last decision just before turning off the game.
In conclusion, I just need to go through the tree as fast as it is possible.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

[Tony Li]

The Dialogue System Extras page has a project template called Textline for games like Lifeline. (It has a script that restores the conversation state when restoring a saved game.) You just need to plug in your content from Chat Mapper and customize the look of the UI.

[Ell_Diablo]

Thank you so much for such a fast response. Thanks to that I can continue to work on this idea.

Greetings

[Tony Li]

Glad to help! Have fun making your game!