Dialogue System Template (Templates)

I have difficulty in showing global variables in the dialogue. What's is the correct syntax to use in the utility for the showing global variables? How do you insert the variable in the Game Variables dictionary?

It's impossible to call variables my name in Construct 2, so you have to use the GameVariables dictionary. You use the action "add key" to add a new variable or set it's value (if you add an existing key, it just overwrites the value).

Oh and to compare variables in a dictionary, you use the expression GameVariables.get("VariableName")

Not out of the box, but the template is rather easy to expand and adapt.

For your particular need, I would create a new function based on the "choice" one that creates the new smaller window as you said.

Well, I managed to merge my old Create_Choice function with your template! It works great so far! I even used the "Wait For Signal" command to smooth it all out.

Also for anyone interested,

I've found a way to display Dialogue without using the utility or loading anything from elsewhere (For games with less text).

In your event do the following:

Set the size of DialogueData array depending to the number of text boxes you are going to need.

e.g. 1 text box -> 1,3,1

e.g. 3 text boxes -> 3,3,1

DialogueData -> Set value at X0 = "Text you want to display"

Call "Dialogue_StartDialogue" function.

Of course, writing all your game's dialogues inside the C2 project may not be for everyone. But it might be better for a smaller game workflow-wise

Magistross How do you reconfigure for C3? Seems like the system doesn't like JSON files with "c2array" . I'm just starting out and followed the first steps. Having issues on loading a demo dialogue file. Would like to load CSV if that works better. Just don't know how.

1. Followed instructions in the steps earlier on in this thread
2. Loaded a demo file for demodialogue.json
3. Request JSON, Load JSON to DialogueDictionary
4. Call "Dialogue_StartDialogue"
5. No text gets displayed, but box appears. Actually covers up the text 0

Lumicreative.com - This is what fixed my case, using the example utility project, I had to change the top four variables in the dialogue event sheet to static, constant, otherwise they were all 0 and that messed up the location of the SpriteFont object (amongst many other things.)

Thinking about it - it looks like local variable behavior under groups has changed between C3 runtime and C2 runtime. The new C3 runtime behavior may only init once and then if not static it returns to 0?

Yes, it does sounds like a bug, unfortunately, I cannot recreate a simple test case that has the same problem. Those four variables are only set on initialization during the local var declaration, is that right? (I don't see them set anywhere else using the C3 search function.)

Mikal I changed mine to static and constant (got a dialogue about things being deleted if it was set), but i'm still getting a 0. Magistross come over to C3! It's great over here.