Issues with DialogueManager.StartConversation()

[Mackerel_Sky]

Hi Tony.

I'm having some issues getting DialogueManager.StartConversation() to work in my scripts.

For example, as a test I call DialogueManager.StartConversation("Test Conversation"), the string being the title of the conversation, during Start(), but it never comes up. I noticed that it's described as managing a singleton instance of the DialogueSystemController but I'm not sure what that means or whether it's the source of the issue.

I'm trying to call the method as I'm implementing a test boss character who triggers some dialogue after he transitions to a certain stage of health. Everything works fine up until I need to call StartConversation(), and no error message is logged in console.

Do you have any idea of what's going on? I understand somebody had a similar issue in this thread and managed to solve it using DialogueSystemTrigger, but you mentioned that DialogueManager.StartConversation() should work perfectly fine as well.

https://www.pixelcrushers.com/phpbb/vie ... php?t=1603

Thanks!

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Make sure your scene has a Dialogue Manager GameObject, and that your Console window isn't filtering out warnings.

The Dialogue Manager GameObject has a DialogueSystemController component. This component holds the dialogue database that contains your conversations. If there's no Dialogue Manager GameObject, then DialogueManager.StartConversation() won't be able to find your conversation to start it.

[Mackerel_Sky]

Okay, I enabled warnings and the console is logging that the conversation isn't in the database. I can see the conversations in the database, though (I think?).

[Tony Li]

Is the correct database assigned to the Dialogue Manager?

Inspect the Dialogue Manager and click the logo or the Edit button. This will open the Dialogue Editor window:

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Go to the Conversations section and make sure that conversation is in the dropdown list. Click on blank canvas space in the editor to view the conversation's properties. Check that there aren't any blank spaces at the end of the title.

[Mackerel_Sky]

Hey Tony,

Looks like that was the issue. For some reason I was creating new conversations without the database selected. Sorry for the trouble!

[Tony Li]

No problem; glad it's working.