I always loved how Ashes had interactions with friendly NPCs, enabling an overarching story to link a world together with good ol fashioned roleplay. I noticed other mods that did the same thing and would like to recreate this but don't necessarily know how. Is there a YouTube tutorial or a means of getting this level of interaction within ZScript? Or is this the result of something like ACS?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
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Psychojack88
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Re: TEXT AND CHOICES LIKE ASHES 2063 MOD [UNRESOLVED/WIP]
ZDoom supports the game strife, which has a built in conversation system, and has extended the system too.
You might find these pages give you a start:
https://zdoom.org/wiki/ZDoom_Strife_Dialog_Format
https://zdoom.org/wiki/Universal_Strife_Dialog_Format
I have used it myself and initially found it quite hard to get to grips with, but it's not bad once you get the hang of it.
Ultimate Dom Builder has a built-in dialogue editor (available on the F10 key, same as ACS).
You might find these pages give you a start:
https://zdoom.org/wiki/ZDoom_Strife_Dialog_Format
https://zdoom.org/wiki/Universal_Strife_Dialog_Format
I have used it myself and initially found it quite hard to get to grips with, but it's not bad once you get the hang of it.
Ultimate Dom Builder has a built-in dialogue editor (available on the F10 key, same as ACS).
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Psychojack88
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Re: TEXT AND CHOICES LIKE ASHES 2063 MOD [UNRESOLVED/WIP]
Ah I see. Thank you Enjay for the prompt response. I really appreciate it because this was one thing I was curious about for a while and saw several times. It was one of those things that was made me realize how intuitive one could make their mods or standalone games with ZDoom or GZDoom.