{"id":353,"date":"2012-07-27T04:15:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2012-07-31T05:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:32:44","slug":"dialog-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Dialog Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dialog<\/a>The Dialog Controller<\/a> has been designed to display dialog popups filled with textual data at the locations where a particular dialog is taking place.<\/p>\n

Data is read in from text files within the Resources directory within the Unity project folder. The text files are sorted and separated based off the name of the desired game object given within it’s own script behavior. Also, within it’s own script behavior, this is where its initial dialog state is set, this determines the initial read in dialog. \"Resources<\/a>As seen within this image, this shows how what I call the NPC (Non-Player Character)<\/strong> game objects dialog data is sorted to be picked when needed for the read in NPC’s particular dialog state.<\/p>\n

This data is picked based off the attached Dialog Controller<\/strong> script attached to the NPC<\/strong>. The Resource Data Location<\/strong> is used to determine where the text files are located within the Resources folder. Also, and importantly, the Initial Dialog State<\/strong> locates the initial dialog text within the text files, I will explain this more in depth later on. \"Dialog<\/a>The next image shows the inputs I gave the NPC Behavior<\/strong> script and Dialog Controller<\/strong> script based off my example for the individual NPC objects. Within my scene initializing script I dynamically create and change the Name<\/strong> attribute within the NPC Behavior<\/strong> script.
\n\"Dialog<\/a><\/p>\n

Dialog is created with simple text statements and implemented built in functions to either send dialog to a different game object or to change the dialog state of the current NPC a particular dialog is attached to. These are currently the only built in functions, but more will be coming down the road, such as sending a dialog statement to multiple game objects at a time. As seen in the next example, this text file called Pondering.txt<\/strong> represents an NPC with the Name<\/strong> value of Pondering<\/strong> within the NPC Behavior<\/strong> script. \"Text<\/a>The Start<\/strong> line represents the Initial Dialog State<\/strong> of the NPC object, the next line is the first line that is displayed, \"Pondering<\/a>\"Main<\/a>which would look like the image on the left, the blue character represents the main player. As you can see, the three dots “…”<\/strong> animate between “.” -> “..” -> “…”<\/strong> repeating this, indicating that there is another dialog statement in this particular dialog. To both advance and initialize a dialog statement the Activator Key: SPACE<\/strong> by default must be pressed. The [R_MainPlayer]<\/strong> tells the system to send the dialog statement to the MainPlayer<\/strong> object, which MainPlayer<\/strong> is the name of the main player’s game object. Continuing on, the next statement in the dialog is sent to the Pondering NPC object, where finally the [CS_NewStart]<\/strong> changes the Pondering NPC object’s Dialog State<\/strong> to NewStart<\/strong>. Take note of the space between the individual dialogs, this is important<\/strong> to separate between dialogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dialog Controller has been designed to display dialog popups filled with textual data at the locations where a particular dialog is taking place. Data is read in from text files within the Resources directory within the Unity project folder. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[12,11,35,13,22,23,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chazix-scripts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}