Ink integration question / feature request

[NotVeryProfessional]

Does the ink integration expose currentTags (see https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/maste ... untime-api) or some other access to the tags in the ink story?

If not, can that be a feature request? It would be really useful to be able to put additional information (locations, different actor pictures, etc.) into the ink file and use it in Dialogue System.

[Tony Li]

Hi,

You can access the DialogueSystemInkIntegration script's activeStory.currentTags property.

[NotVeryProfessional]

got it, works. I can actively query the tags.

Is there an event or something? I mean, if I use tags to set, say, the background image, how does my code get called whenever a (new) tag is encountered?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

You could check them in an OnConversationLine method.

[NotVeryProfessional]

got it, will try that.

Still, the integration anyway parses the tags (looking for Actor and Conversant). That might be a good spot to hook listeners in. Just an idea.

[Tony Li]

My thinking, too. In the next update, I've already split that code out into a separate virtual method to make it easy to override it if you want to process additional tags.