Proper dialogue template

poopdecksweeper

Does anyone have one of these made?

I am having a hard time trying to make a good dialogue where the actor that makes the text change will disappear and reappear when it is time for you to proceed.

I think I am going to need around 5 or 6 attributes to constrain to each other for this, but I dont know

MotherHoose

for Ends of the Earth TOtB4 … I did some workUp with dialogues
a little demo of how I got things working with Tables and flow

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?b82qa73d4qfqfxr

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quantumsheep

I'm in the planning stages of a conversation system as we speak. If I end up making one, I'll give you some pointers.

Right now though, in my head, I see flow-charts and graphics changing based on input from the user. Maybe that'll help?

QS

MotherHoose

easy with tables @QS … you can have cols for chars yes answer and no answer … use a game attribute triggered by player input to call for correct column.
and flow can usually be monitored by player/char index attribute …
simple to create a table for each auxiliary character's interaction with player

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quantumsheep

I really haven't had time to learn this tables thingy yet. I may look at them when I get onto making the conversation system, or I may do it 'old school'

MotherHoose

well… you go do the tables, QS … good for us old dogs to learn new tricks!
and, it makes things easier … you just use the same code … referencing the flow for all the possible dialogues
oh … just download my demo and see one way it can be done

and if you want to use images and not text … just type in your table the image name (without the .png)
and changeAttribute:  self.Image  To:   tableCellValue(table,row,col)..".png"
(select the table,selectAttribute with characterValue,select the flowAttribute) 4 clicks and 8 keystrokes
and, copy/paste to continue the conversation.

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