Running several conversations in a script

[lostmushroom]

Hey Tony, I'm setting up character scheduling for my game and the way I'd like to do it is by creating a method to run several conversations in my scheduling script.

These conversations have no dialogue in them, all they do is turn game objects on and off. This is what I've got right now.

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public void ScheduleCharacters()
    {
        DialogueManager.StopConversation();
        DialogueManager.StartConversation("ACT 1/Mayor/Calendar");
        
        DialogueManager.StopConversation();
        DialogueManager.StartConversation("ACT 1/Princess/Calendar");
        
        DialogueManager.StopConversation();
        DialogueManager.StartConversation("ACT 1/Grandfather/Calendar");

    }

But this is only working for the last character in the list, I guess because using the StopConversation(); is stopping it before it can run?

Basically I just want to run several conversations one after the other controlled by script. Do you know a better way to do this?

Thanks! (:

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Here are a few ways you could do that:

1. If each conversation has only one node linked from <START>, and that node has a sequence, you could run the sequence instead of the conversation:

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PlaySequenceInConversation("ACT 1/Mayor/Calendar");
PlaySequenceInConversation("ACT 1/Princess/Calendar");
PlaySequenceInConversation("ACT 1/Grandfather/Calendar");
...
void PlaySequenceInConversation(string conversationTitle)
{ // If the sequence uses 'speaker' or 'listener', you could pass those transforms to this method.
    var conversation = DialogueManager.masterDatabase.GetConversation(conversationTitle);
    var sequence = conversation.dialogueEntries[1].currentSequence;
    DialogueManager.PlaySequence(sequence); // Pass speaker/listener transforms here if necessary.
}

2. Or you could tick the Dialogue Manager's Other Settings > Allow Simultaneous Conversations and not stop the other conversations:

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DialogueManager.StartConversation("ACT 1/Mayor/Calendar");
DialogueManager.StartConversation("ACT 1/Princess/Calendar");
DialogueManager.StartConversation("ACT 1/Grandfather/Calendar");

3. Or you could set up a Dialogue System Trigger for each one and tick the Queue checkbox to queue them to run in sequence. Then call the Dialogue System Triggers' OnUse() methods.


4. Or you could queue it yourself:

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var conversationQueue = new Queue<string>(new string[] { "ACT 1/Mayor/Calendar", "ACT 1/Princess/Calendar", "ACT 1/Grandfather/Calendar" });
 DialogueManager.instance.conversationEnded += OnConversationEnded;
 PlayNextConversationInQueue();
 ...
 void OnConversationEnded(Transform actor) { PlayNextConversationInQueue(); }
 ...
 void PlayNextConversationInQueue()
 {
     if (conversationQueue.Count > 0)
     {
         DialogueManager.StartConversation(conversationQueue.Dequeue());
     }
 }