Blueprint Dialogue System

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@HInoue;362736

One more quick question if you don’t mind- thumbing through the docs this looks pretty focused on blueprint components- I love the look, and I like the ton of formatting and functionality it has, but because my game uses mostly procedural dialogue generated in C++, I would need to get this system to accept a series of TArray<FString> for dialogue, and TArray<questionStruct> for responses. Would it be reasonably easy to re-wire your system to accept dialogue in that format from a single central manager class, or would the work I would need to put into changes be better-served building a UMG UI from the ground up?

Hi HInoue,

If you value your time here on earth, I recommend to never implement a complex dialogue system in UMG and Blueprints!

Your data can be adapted for the system in a few different ways, it would be a matter of changing 2 or 3 overridable functions in an inherited BPC_Dialogue class:

The text is retrieved through an overridable ‘TArray<FDialogueItem> GetDialogueItem(FName textKey)’ and ‘TArray<FName> GetDialogueRowNames’ functions, if you can convert your data to fit DialogueTableItem (a blueprint structure, so the converter must be in blueprints) and either change the ‘GetNextState’ function and ignore the GetDialogueRowNames function, or implement the GetDialogueRowNames.

Let me know if you run into any trouble if you follow this route