Blueprint Dialogue System

[Grogger]

Hi CrashA51, thanks for your interest!

I’ll try to address your questions as best I can:

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1. Can I turn off the typewriter feature…and play a voice over, while the subtitles are displayed on screen?

Yes, the typewriter feature could be made instant in order to disable it.

2. Can a branch choice by the player trigger a NPC dialogue animation (get angry, point finger) or action (such as attack the player or walk away) in addition to a sound or response (laugh, another dialog branch)?

Yes, the system features a customizable scripting system that you can trigger any custom blueprint code you’d like either Inline during the dialogue, as a post-action after the dialogue before the next, or as a pre-action before the dialogue starts. You could create your own functions that could trigger any type of actions.

There are pre-built functions and a convenient slot for audio voice overs.

3. Does this come with a camera control feature, if not how difficult would it be to add one?

It doesn’t come with camera features, though using the custom functions mentioned above, you can do this quite easily (I’ve done this in my own project mentioned in my sig, but the implementation is too custom to put into the dialogue system).

4. Does this come with a feature linking dialog to specific conditions (mission or quest completion, completion of dialogue with another NPC, experience level, in game events like enemy appears)?

The system has several generalized mechanisms for this. First there’s the branch conditions column that will help select which branch should be used at this time (based on your own custom script variables - eg. goblinKing@hasStartedQuest == true || GetPlayerLevel() > 5), and then there’s the UseConditions which help inform the system whether an actor should be interactive at this time.

5. Does this support random passive dialogue by NPCs, with option to turn off subtitles and use voice only, and link passive dialogue to specific animations, such as a shop seller trying to engage you
   to buy something?

Yes, a passive dialogue mode was added in v1.3, and a customized interface displaying nothing could be used to hide the subtitles, and animations/audio can be triggered as described above

6. How difficult would it be to turn the head of an NPC towards the player during the dialogue then back away after the dialogue is complete, like we see in Fallout 4?

Depending on how you implement the dialogue components, this can be as simple as checking if the dialogue is active on the specific character and looking at the player pawn if it is.

I hope that helps! Cheers