Bubble continue button 'skipping' nodes

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ETRStudios
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Bubble continue button 'skipping' nodes

Post by ETRStudios »

Hi Tony,

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere but I couldn't find it. Also I think I must be missing something obvious!

Desired behaviour:

In a conversation between player and NPC, the conversation will only ever advance if the player enters a key, i.e. Continue Button is set to Always in the Dialogue Manager. When we press that key, we should move to the next node, or choice if its a choice for the player

Actual behaviour:

When I press the submit key, the conversation is moved on to the next node but then also moves again immediately to the following node i.e. we effectively 'skip' a node / or if its a player choice we default to choose the first one:
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I've verified that the key is only being pressed once in the logs.

Setup:
I am using the standard bubble setup outlined here,

https://www.pixelcrushers.com/phpbb/vie ... php?t=2284

With one addition: I have added a continue button to the bubble template, with a UI Button Key Trigger. That ContinueButton object I have dragged into the Bubble Template:
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This seems to be causing the 'skipping' behaviour, we seem to be effectively calling Submit/Continue twice - I can see in the Debug logs from the Dialogue Manager the 'skipped' node is referenced.

But without that continue button on the bubble template [i.e. if I disable it], if the Dialogue Manager has the Continue Button set to Always (which I want), then we can't move passed a bubble node once it has displayed, we are stuck.

Other context: using the new input system, the InputSystem UI Input module + events system is in the scene, referencing the actions asset.

My Dialoge Manager settings are below. The Input Device Manager is set to Always Auto Focus if that's relevant.
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Hopefully that's clear!

Many thanks
ETRStudios
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Joined: Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:35 am

Re: Bubble continue button 'skipping' nodes

Post by ETRStudios »

I'm an idiot - I'd mistakenly added a UI Button Key Trigger as well, which was accounting for the double continue - please ignore the above!
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