Blueprint Dialogue System

[Grogger]

@Meguido;401907

Ok,
so i said “test it deeply” but right now it’s more like “hitting a wall” XD

I read through the help and also saw your video-tutorials, but because i can’t trust in what i see (i mean i forget it quickly) xD i’m running into a problem now.
Tried to implement the system in my game, but after adding the bpc_dialogue child into my npc character and the scanner into my character, when i play it it’s like the scanner is ignoring the npc at all.

Tried the same with a cone/static mesh and worked ok.
Tried adding the skeletal mesh directly to the map and worked ok.

Then i decided to go back to your example (i thought that maybe was some kind of error with using blueprints instead of just skeletal or static meshes). So i turned the sign post into a BP just to find that everything works the same except that the alternate layout doesn’t shows up. Everything is shown under the basic layout. But still was almost working and fully detected by the scanner.

Then tried one more thing; duplicated the Third person player character blueprint, called it NPCCharacter just for reference. Got rid of all the event graph nodes and the camera component. Got rid of the scanner too and just added the BPC_Demo_Topic to it, saved, tested and… voilá! the character gets ignored and the system doesn’t work
Probably it’s just me that i’m missing some important step but i can’t find what it is.

Can you please point me in the right direction?

The reason it isn’t working on a character is because the scanner uses the ‘visibility’ channel, which is disabled in the character. I’m not certain why it’s off, it doesn’t seem to have any negative side effect in my project to enable it though.

Alternatively, if you need the character’s visibility channel to not collide, you can create a new channel and replace the traces in BPC_UseScanner with that new channel (of course, all of the actors would need to set their collision parameters accordingly)

Thanks for bringing this up! I’ll update the documentation with this info