Dialogue Problems

[Pyrulen]

This post is not so much centred on problems with dialogue itself, but on how to create several different dialogues in the same town for multiple characters.

 

I have already given all talking npcs their own personality and used personality = x; on each dialogue node, so then why does it start with node 1 for every character, even their personality number does not correspond?

 

EDIT: Never mind, I just forgot to assign the node numbers to the memory cells.

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[Lilith]

Just so you know, the "personality" field doesn't actually seem to do anything at all. As near as we can tell, it only exists to help the designer keep track of who each dialogue node belongs to.

[Dintiradan]

By Thuryl:

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Just so you know, the "personality" field doesn't actually seem to do anything at all. As near as we can tell, it only exists to help the designer keep track of who each dialogue node belongs to.

Hmmm... this got me thinking. I haven't looked into it, but maybe you could use it to make everyone in a certain range of personalities become hostile, or some other effect. All you would need is some call to check personalities, if one exists.

 

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[*i]

I believe the personality field is used with things like the INTRO text, but not a lot else.

[Dikiyoba]

That's the only thing the BoA documentation says it does.

 

Dikiyoba.

[Pyrulen]

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maybe you could use it to make everyone in a certain range of personalities become hostile

Probably possible only by manually changing individual creatures in a list. Then again, you might be able to do something with SDFs for each character on this.

[Thralni]

There was a call, though I can't remember what it was, in which the personality was necesary. It had nothing to do with dialogue, though. When I'll have time I'll search for it.

[Kelandon]

Well, current_personality involves the personality, obviously. But if that's not the one you mean, then perhaps you are thinking of the character ID, not the personality. That plays into a few calls.

[Thralni]

Yes, that was the one. What is the character ID for actually. I can't remember using it even once. Although I can look it up myself, actually.

[Pyrulen]

This has been lifted straight from the appendices:

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When a character is added to the party, its character ID remains unchanged. The calls

character_in_party and remove_char_from_party will refer to this character ID.

And there we have it.