CS3 Dialogues And Conversations?
Jul 6, 2009
I have the basics for my game laid out, but the problem I ran across dealt with text via character conversations. Since my game is very text heavy (think interactive story/novel), this is pretty important. Here's what I'm trying to do:
- Display text near bottom of screen in a fixed (dynamic) textbox.- Display the character's image near the bottom to the left of the text (some RPGs do this where the sprites are on the top and the full character model is on the bottom showing who is speaking).- Be able to switch between character's text easily along with images Since I have hundreds of lines of dialogue, I was thinking of creating dozens of arrays with the dialogue text. I would print these to the screen in the dynamic text box. My concern is this: Should I create an array for each character (10 characters in all) or should I create the arrays per conversation (since having played through a conversation will trigger an event to move on in the game). My problem with doing it by character is that I am not sure how to use that type of array as the trigger I need it to be. On the other hand, by doing this as a conversation, I don't know how to display the correct character image to the left of the text as the array wouldn't be able to determine who is speaking, right?
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Jul 28, 2011
I'm trying to imitate the conversations you could have in SCUMM games (The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle...). However, there isn't much information about that topic on the Internet, so I don't know how dialogs work. I don't want a simple dialog, with just 4 or 5 questions to choose. I want that these questions lead to another branch of the dialog, with more questions and stuff.
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Nov 1, 2011
I'm trying to make a minigame with dialogues. There's this thief which you caught and when you talk to him you have to choose the right dialogue answers so he doesn't freak out. I'm doing this with movieclips (and turning them into buttons with A.S. so I can make them fade in and out when you click on it). So to give you an example it looks like this:
(Button: Hi there) Click on it -> Dialogue fades out with alpha.......... New dialogue fades in with alpha and you're able to pick another option.
I've done this before and it worked all the time but when I tried it again today it starting bugging on me. I'm referring from one button to the other button with this code:
Object(root).level4.balkdialooglevel2.dialooglevel 23.gotoAndStop(2);
I checked every symbol and they all have the correct instance name. Symbol level4 has the instance name Level4, symbol balkdialooglevel2 has the instance name balkdialooglevel2 and so forth. But when I test it and click on the button, it gives me this error:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Perhaps ActionScript didn't load the symbols yet when I'm trying to refer to it?
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Jan 22, 2010
It's about the "Game Character Dialogues", It is used to instruct the user what to do, like what you see in BookWorm or Diner DAsh.I used dynamic text fields to generate these dialogues,but as I continued doing it. I found myself stuck.I have no idea on how to change the words when the "next" button is clicked. there will be no previous button. but the dialogue will replay when the character is clicked.
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