Blueprint Dialogue System

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@brunogruber;343234

Hey, two more questions:

1. Is it possible to fire a dialogue from the level blueprint? I’m trying to make the player say something automatically when the game starts (begin play).

2. How do you assign a portrait to a speaker? I understand that you have to create an asset with the portrait at DT_DialogueAssets_Main, but I can’t find documentation on how that works and I can’t edit the AssetReference row. Can you please enlighten me? Maybe make a quick video tutorial on how to assign a portrait covering that?

Thanks!

You can trigger the dialogue from the level blueprint by calling the ‘Use’ event on the actor owning the dialogue you want to trigger. To make a narrator, a dummy actor should work safely.

To add an asset to a data table, you’ll need to use the csv for now (4.8 doesn’t allow editing base Object columns in the row editor).
In the sample, you can find the csv’s under “Content\BlueprintDialogues\SampleContent\DialogueSampleContent\Data”.
To get the full path for the table, simply Ctrl+C when selecting the asset in the content browser (or right click -> Copy Reference).

For portraits, you can either set the default portrait by copying the reference to the **SpeakerPortrait **column in the speaker attribute table, or, if you intend to swap the portrait, place it in your DialogueAsset data table and use the ‘SetPortrait](Blueprint Dialogue System - Documentation - Google Docs)’ function after the PreAction event in the dialogue (eg. before the start of your text).

I will update the documentation (maybe make a video tutorial if I get the chance) on this when I get the chance, thanks for bringing it up!
I hope this helps