Hello,
I’m trying to make a system for dialogue choices in my game. I would like for a player to be able to select a dialogue choice, and to potentially activate a method based on that choice (i.e. talking to a shop keep and one choice would let you ask for a quest, while the other takes you to the shop).
Here is a really basic event system holder I’m using:
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;
[System.Serializable]
public class MethodAfterChoice : MonoBehaviour
{
//drag the scripts in here in inspector
public UnityEvent choiceEffectEvent;
}
So If I’m attaching this script to the NPC character I can drag in the objects that I want just fine and it works if there’s only one method I want to activate. But I want there to be the option to make several different choices and I don’t think there’s a way to selectively Invoke one of the methods in an event.
When adding this class to a dialogue scriptable object it doesn’t work the same way (I think because it’s not using Monobehavior anymore?)
using UnityEngine;
[System.Serializable]
public struct Choice
{
[TextArea(2, 5)]
public string text;
public Conversation conversation; //what conversation the choice should trigger
public MethodAfterChoice methodAfterChoice; //the method that the choice should trigger
public int choiceIndex;
}
[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "New Choice", menuName = "Dialogue/Choice")]
public class ConversationChoice : ScriptableObject
{
[TextArea(2, 5)]
public string text;
public Character speaker;
public Choice[] choices;
}
I can no longer drag in the objects that worked when I had the MethodAfterChoice placed directly on the NPC, so I can’t add the functions that I want in my dialogue system. This is the same when trying to make MethodAfterChoice a scriptable object and I’m not sure how to get the effect that I want.
If you see a general way to fix this or have a workaround that you know of I’d really appreciate it. I’ve been stuck on this for a few days already.
I was just gutted I dropped 60 quid on SODA before realising this is practically the same thing but for free.