Dialog system questions and troubles

Hey there.  I'm trying to get my character to change his mood according to whatever statement he's presently making.  However, I don't see any means to change which talking animation the character is using.

create a different outfit fir the character or change the character index (both action parts)  to let him look different. the index is used to define which animation is used when you have e. g.  two talk animations for facing down. 

create a different outfit fir the character or change the character index (both action parts)  to let him look different. the index is used to define which animation is used when you have e. g.  two talk animations for facing down. 

regarding the text problem: inside the font you are using for the character you can define a width. Texts which are longer are continued in the next line. 

hope this helps

 

Very much so!  Thank you.  I'm sorry for all the newb questions all of a sudden but this is my second day using the engine and I'm hoping to finish the remaster of the game I'm working on by end of month.

Remastered version of an entire game in a month? Is it a short-ish game?

Remastered version of an entire game in a month? Is it a short-ish game?

Presently it's about 35-60 minutes per run.  For a point and click though, it's pretty easy to make.  It's a first person adventure/puzzler, so I don't need to care about much of anything other than what folks can click on and the art and the logic needed to make the game's puzzles function.

Not too bad then. I'm assuming it's a Visual Novel of sorts going by the screenshots you posted? If that's the case then it would be easy enough to make your own dialog system or even directly add the choices to each scene as scene objects (images or animations). It would allow you to get more creative with how you display them.

Not too bad then. I'm assuming it's a Visual Novel of sorts going by the screenshots you posted? If that's the case then it would be easy enough to make your own dialog system or even directly add the choices to each scene as scene objects (images or animations). It would allow you to get more creative with how you display them.

It switches back and forth between adventure game and VN/Choose-your-own-adventure-novel.  The dialogue sections are pretty VN while the adventure game portions are fairly traditional - albeit more logic-based than most adventure games tend to go more item-based.

The more I work with it though, the more I see it's less and less possible to make it happen without additional code.  Augh.

The dialog background is an easy fix. Either add it to an interface or include it as a object in the scene, link a condition to it so that you can toggle it on & off as needed. If you use interfaces, then you would need to create the player avatars in the interface too, so that they get displayed above the background because normal behavior dictates that all interfaces should overlay both scene & character content. This is it would be in most game engines.

The dialog background is an easy fix. Either add it to an interface or include it as a object in the scene, link a condition to it so that you can toggle it on & off as needed. If you use interfaces, then you would need to create the player avatars in the interface too, so that they get displayed above the background because normal behavior dictates that all interfaces should overlay both scene & character content. This is it would be in most game engines.

Aye, that's what I ultimately found I had to do to get it to run (mostly) properly.  

Also, thanks to everyone who's replied so far.  You're making this journey to producing this game a lot faster and easier on me.  Once I can get these core systems down I'll hopefully be full steam ahead for the rest of the game's recreation.