Right now the attached dialogue script (or even just the presence of an attached dialogue script) of an individual actor isn't accessible from ZScript.
I'd like to be able to identify actors that have a dialogue attached and spawn a "come talk to me" marker over their heads.
Use case: The Blade of Agony "action marker" exclamation points over NPCs are manually placed in the map, and are proximity based in their deactivation. Right now you can walk up to an NPC and not talk to them, but the marker will still dim. We want to automatically spawn the marker based on whether or not the actor has a dialogue configured, and to tie the marker deactivation to the conversation being entered (which should be easy already with checking the bInConversation flag). I just can't find a way to do the initial check right now.
Spoiler: Original flawed-approach request
Right now the Conversation ID of an individual actor isn't accessible from ZScript at all (please correct me if I'm wrong).
I'd like to be able to identify actors that have a conversation ID set and spawn a "come talk to me" marker over their heads.
Use case: The Blade of Agony "action marker" exclamation points over NPCs are manually placed in the map, and are proximity based in their deactivation. Right now you can walk up to an NPC and not talk to them, but the marker will still dim. We want to automatically spawn the marker based on whether or not the actor has a conversation ID set, and to tie the marker deactivation to the conversation being entered (which should be easy already with checking the bInConversation flag). I just can't find a way to do the initial check right now.
Last edited by AFADoomer on Thu Jun 22, 2017 5:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Your entire idea is flawed. What you want is not checking for conversation IDs but for attached dialogue scripts. The conversation ID is perfectly useless, every single item in Strife got one, for example, and they are also used as spawn IDs in dialogues, not just for IDing actors you can talk to.
