Unity 3D Dialogue Tool v. 1.0

What script are you using?

It should be something like:

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GameObject.Find("YourObject").GetComponent(YourScript).YourAction();

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So, when the dialogue is over, this script will:
1. Find a game object in the scene named "YourObject";
2. Find the attached script "YourScript";
3. And run the function "YourAction".

In this scenario, you should have an object in the scene named "Your Object" with a script attached to it named "YourScript". Within "YourScript", you should have a function called YourAction.

For example:
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function YourAction () {
print ("Hello world!");
}
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I just tested this and it seemed to work fine.

Good luck!

Hi Andrew,

Glad the tool's working for your needs!

The main thing to understand which I think gets at both of your questions is that all data in the tool is stored as class variables in Unity. This is nice, because it allows you to easily edit them in the inspector, but is problematic if you want to move them.

1. What I've done in this situation is to create a prefab, drag the current object (with all the dialogue data in it) to the prefab. This replicates the entire dialogue instance and allows you to reuse it, move it between scenes, and so forth. Once you've done that, you can then instantiate the prefab (or edit it directly) and change the mesh, materials, etc. as your needs require.

2. Again, since the data is stored within Unity, there are no files to copy or move. If you needed to get your data out, you'd need to write a custom script which pulls up all of the dialogue instances and writes them to a file in a way that would be useful for you. Ideally, it would be nice to have a script that wrote these instances in an XML tree and then could import them back, but I haven't needed to do this yet, and even if there were such a tool, there'd be data loss, because the tool references unity objects in the current scene (like image files, gui skins, and so forth) which are stored as Unity identifiers.

3. One thing you might try, if you've already got a toggle script that you're using with all dialogue instances, is to have it check on start for an attached DialogueInstance and to disable it, like so:

function Start () {
var d : DialogueInstance = gameObject.GetComponent(DialogueInstance);
if (d) d.enabled = false;
}

This is untested but should do the trick of disabling the dialogue before it causes problems. Additionally, in your script, I think that you have an error in the GetComponent() call, because DialogueInstance should not be in quotes (if you're doing a Find command, you need quotes, but since Unity recognizes DialogueInstance as a script, you can call it directly). This might be a problem.

Hope this helps,

Royce

Glad you like it! Let me know what happens with your visual novel engine.

Thanks for the kudos!

I don't have the iPhone version of Unity, so I haven't been able to test it. My guess is that it should work for the most part, but there might be some issues with the selection wheel stemming from screen size (it currently uses static pixel values centered on the screen which may be too large for an iPhone).

Can't look at it now, but I'm pretty sure that's used to evaluate custom scripts you feed the interface to be executed in response to a selection (e.g. change a variable if the user makes an important choice), and so, it's only necessary if you're going to have it evaluate your own scripts fed through the interface. The basic dialog functionality will still work fine without it.

And new skins are good. :) If you finish one, let me know and we can post it.

It sounds like you changed a Unity variable and that Unity remembers it even if you reimport the GUIskin file. You may want to try completely deleting the file and then importing it again, though you will need to reconnect any existing dialogue instances to the new skin. Or, you could create a new project, import the GUIskin file, and recording what the variables are so that you can update the current project.

I'd like to do a lot more work on this, and tutorials would be a great addition, but alas, time does not permit at the moment. Maybe in the near future, though.

Thanks! Try downloading the alternate version http://kimmonsdesign.com/sites/default/files/dialogue2.unitypackage and tweaking it. It should have everything you need to get the images showing up.

Hi Popsi,
You will need to attach the DialogueInstance script to an object and set it up the way you want. When you play the scene, the script will start automatically (showing the dialogue). If you don't want this to happen, you will need to disable the script (unclick the box) and create a script of your own to enable it at the right time (typically using OnColliderEnter [if you want to run into the object] or a Raycast of some kind [if you want to click on the object]).

Hi Mus,
One thing you can do is when making choices, make the correct choice point to a new dialogue item that says "Correct!" or something like that and set the mode to "End." This way, if they click the correct answer, it will say the correct message and then disable the dialogue instance (until it is enabled again).
If you want to do something fancy when they select the right answer, you will need to use the "Script" mode. So, for instance, you can have the correct answer go to a dialogue item that destroys the object by using the script GameObject.Destroy(d.gameObject); or go to a dialogue object that just destroys the dialogue instance (i.e. removes it from the object) using the script GameObject.Destroy(d);.

Hi Everlight,
At one point I had that functionality in the script (with the right arrow key), but may have removed it.
To add key listening, you will need to add something like the following in the Update function:

if (Input.GetKeyDown(key ID goes here)) {
// advance the dialogue
}

I don't remember the function to advance the dialogue off the top of my head, though. I'll try to check later.

Hi Dave,
To change the font size, you will need to duplicate the actual font file in your assets panel, give it a different name, change the size there, and attach the new font to your GUI Style.

Hmm... not built-in I don't think. But you might be able to do something in the script mode by using a yield statement.

yield WaitForSeconds(2);

Or something like that.

Hi Pali,

You shouldn't need to unzip it, since it is a .unitypackage file. Just open Unity and import to the assets folder.

Royce

Hi Jasper,

You'll need to edit the script directly. Go into DialogueInstance.js and change the code at line 127 from GUI.Box(Rect(0,Screen.height-120,Screen.width,120),curContent,"textboxplayer"); to GUI.Box(Rect(0,Screen.height-120,[NEW WIDTH],120),curContent,"textboxplayer"); where [NEW WIDTH] is the width you want. For your purposes, you might want to try something like Screen.width-300 or something like that.

Royce