Blueprint Dialogue System

[Grogger]

@HInoue;410271

Ooh I see what you’re getting at, sorry for being dense.

My project’s in C++, so I’m trying to minimize the number of objects that need blueprint, and I had a slight idea about how to do it without an external event: I use the same key to start a conversation, and to advance the dialogue to the next line, so I tried modifying the event which my system uses to start dialogues. This is in my override of BPC_Dialogue, so it should already have a reference to the active UI. My addition is highlighted in yellow:

This starts conversations fine, but it won’t advance them; is my reasoning correct that if OwnerHasActiveDialogues is true, Active UI should contain a reference to the current UI? The only reason I could think this wouldn’t work is if for some reason OwnerHasActiveDialogues doesn’t return true when I think it does.

I can see this maybe working, but I can imagine problems when a conversation works its way through several ui’s or Dialogue components, or if the event interaction calls someone else.

Have you put some breakpoints down to see how far it gets in the blueprint code? The events might not be triggered at all: By default in Keyboard & Mouse mode, the dialogue component puts the game in UI Only input mode. You’d need to place it in Input mode ‘Unmanaged’, but then you’ll need handle managing the mouse and keyboard events yourself.