Alright, so I’m trying to implement a dialogue system that can be edited easily on the fly. I want to be able to edit text for dozens of NPCs using the same properties, which I’ve got in place. Those properties are as follows:
NearNPC – This is an integer. The number indicates the NPC that the player is near.
isInDialogueMenu - This is also an integer. This indicates whether the player is free roaming, has entered dialogue, or exited dialogue. It ranges from 0 for no, 1, for yes, and 3 for exited.
dialogueNumber – This is yet another integer. It determines, along with NearNPC, what line of text the text box should be displaying.
dialogueChoice – This is an integer that handles multiple choice dialogue menus. It starts at 0 and never goes above 2.
So… with that done the code is as follows:
import bge
import math #this is for other functions like lotteries and random item drops
import Rasterizer #this is for use later down, for certain visual effects
import random #also for use in lotteries and item drops
from bge import logic #this is for use in controlling the camera's ortho scale later down
def full (cont):
cont = bge.logic.getCurrentController()
scene = bge.logic.getCurrentScene()
own = cont.owner
keyboard = bge.logic.keyboard
JUST_ACTIVATED = bge.logic.KX_INPUT_JUST_ACTIVATED
JUST_RELEASED = bge.logic.KX_INPUT_JUST_RELEASED
ACTIVE = bge.logic.KX_INPUT_ACTIVE
NONE = bge.logic.KX_INPUT_NONE
#### List objects and meshes ####
PlayerHitbox = scene.objects['PlayerHitbox']
PlayerCam = logic.getCurrentScene().active_camera
Ground = scene.objects['Ground']
Dialogue = scene.objects['Dialogue'] #This is a text object
DialogueTextBackground = scene.objects['DialogueTextBackground']
DialogueChoiceArrow = scene.objects['DialogueChoiceArrow']
NPC1 = scene.objects['NPC1']
NPC2 = scene.objects['NPC2']
#### List of sensors, to be replaced later ####
npc1Near = cont.sensors["npc1Near"]
npc2Near = cont.sensors["npc2Near"]
#### The code that do the thing and the whatnot ####
if npc1Near.positive:
if own['isInDialogueMenu'] == 3:
own['isInDialogueMenu'] = 0
own['nearNPC'] = 1
if own['isInDialogueMenu'] == 0:
own['dialogueNumber'] = 0
if keyboard.events[bge.events.EKEY] == JUST_RELEASED:
own['isInDialogueMenu'] = 1
Dialogue.color = 1, 1, 1, 1
DialogueTextBackground.color = 0, 0, 0, 1
Dialogue.text = "Oh I'm just a test. \nJust a little 'ole test. Just \nsittin' here with my little vest."
if own['isInDialogueMenu'] == 1:
if keyboard.events[bge.events.EKEY] == JUST_RELEASED:
if own['nearNPC'] == 1:
own['dialogueNumber'] +=1
if own['dialogueNumber'] == 6:
own['dialogueNumber'] = 5
if own['dialogueNumber'] == 2:
Dialogue.text = "You wanna take a quiz? I test \nbranching dialogue trees!"
if own['dialogueNumber'] == 3:
Dialogue.text = "If you answer my questions \nright, I'll give you a nice item!"
if own['dialogueNumber'] == 4:
Dialogue.text = "What year was the Ford Mustang \nfirst introduced?"
if own['dialogueNumber'] == 5:
DialogueChoiceArrow.color = 1, 1, 1, 1
if own['dialogueChoice'] == -1:
own['dialogueChoice'] = 2
if own['dialogueChoice'] == 3:
own['dialogueChoice'] = 0
if own['dialogueChoice'] == 0:
DialogueChoiceArrow.localPosition = -6, 0, 1
if keyboard.events[bge.events.SKEY] == JUST_RELEASED:
print("Shifting to dialogueChoice1")
own['dialogueChoice'] = 1
if keyboard.events[bge.events.SKEY] == NONE: #These two lines were added to test
print("Not shifting to dialogueChoice1") #This, oddly enough, prints to the console while "Shifting to dialogueChoice1" does not
if own['dialogueChoice'] == 1:
DialogueChoiceArrow.localPosition = -6, 0, 0
if keyboard.events[bge.events.SKEY] == JUST_RELEASED:
print("Shifting to DialogueChoice2")
own['dialogueChoice'] = 2
if own['dialogueChoice'] == 2:
DialogueChoiceArrow.localPosition = -6, 0, -1
if keyboard.events[bge.events.SKEY] == JUST_ACTIVATED:
print("Shift to DialogueChoice0")
own['dialogueChoice'] = 0
Dialogue.text = " 1964 \n 1968 \n 1979"
else:
own['nearNPC'] = 0
if own['isInDialogueMenu'] == 3 or own['isInDialogueMenu'] == 0:
Dialogue.color = 0, 0, 0, 0
DialogueTextBackground.color = 0, 0, 0, 0
Something’s wrong, and the line that should print “Shifting to dialogueChoice1” isn’t printing to the console. Like it’s not detecting the keyboard input. The input isn’t mapped to any other commands further up or later down, so it’s not being interfered with. It’s just an oddity that won’t throw any errors in the console, but also won’t work. I know Python 3 and 2.7 have a nesting limit of 20 statements, but does Blender have a lower limit? The number of nested statements here is only 6. I’m puzzled. Everything but that line works, even the other dialogue choices if I force a keyboard command to manually increase dialogueChoice by 1 without regarding to dialogueNumber or isInDialogue.
