Strife dialogue layout

[neoworm]

Is it possible to somehow change layout of Strife dialogue system? Changing where the aswers are, where name of the NPC is etc.

[Player701]

Yes, it is. This can be done by defining a custom conversation menu class. I suppose you could subclass the built-in ConversationMenu class to use it as foundation for your own. I haven't worked with it myself, but it seems to have quite a few useful virtual methods you can override. Some of them control the drawing process, so it's theoretically possible to only customize the layout without having to rewrite the entire code from scratch.

To add your custom conversation menu class to the game, there are at least 2 options:

1. ZSDF allows you to override the conversation menu class on a per-conversation basis.
2. There is a gameinfo key called DefaultConversationMenuClass which allows you to override the conversation menu globally via MAPINFO.

[neoworm]

Ok, thanks. I got it somewhat working. It will be a little struggle to make it look well for my needs, but I can work with that now. I just got rid of all the dynamic scalling and position everything within 320x200 resolution to get pixel perfect alignment. I hope I am not getting into some kind of awful conflict with weird screen rosolutions.

Also it's kinda annoying that I can't use ZDooM screenshot function from inside the dialogue.

[Tormentor667]

AFADoomer did that for Blade of Agony by the way

[Enjay]

Also it's kinda annoying that I can't use ZDooM screenshot function from inside the dialogue.

You've probably worked out that it's because the dialogue is a menu, and the screenshot function doesn't work inside a menu. I agree, it is a bit annoying but there are workarounds (e.g. running GZDoom windowed, switching away from the game when a dialogue is open and using PrtScr to send the view to the Windows clipboard, then pasting into a paint program of some sort).